That Rom Com Pod – Details, episodes & analysis

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Guest: Mhairi McFarlane (Follow Mhairi on Instagram @mhairimcf)

Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane (2025, HarperCollins)

You Had Me At Hello, Mhairi McFarlane (2012, HarperCollins)

Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld (2023, Penguin)

I Never Met You, Mhairi McFarlane (2019, HarperCollins)

Slow Horses (2022-24, Apple TV+)

Lucy Prebble on Culture Amp podcast

How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days (2003, Stan)

Spy (2015, Netflix)

Here’s Looking At You, Mhairi McFarlane (2013, HarperCollins)

Out Of Sight (1998, Binge)

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne (2016, Hachette)

Last Night, Mhairi McFarlane (2021, HarperCollins)

Mad About You, Mhairi McFarlane (2022, HarperCollins)

Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane (2016, HarperCollins)

You Belong With Me, Mhairi McFarlane (2024, HarperCollins)

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Guest: @allyblakebooks

Dating Deal with the Italian, Ally Blake

Adaptable

@five_bush_weddings movie updates

Lick (2024, Passionflix) / Blussh Romance Festival / Kylie Scott’s novel

Addition (2024) / Addition, Toni Jordan (2008)

The Family Next Door / Sally Hepworth’s 2018 novel

McBrides of Montana series, Amy Barry

The Winning Formula, Cara Veloce (Audible Original)

Not Here To Make Friends, Jodi McAlister

The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin, Alison Goodman

What Did I Miss?, Holly Brunnbauer

Love Overdue, Ally Berg & Michelle Kalus

How to Write Academy / How to Watch Movies Like a Writer podcast

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Guest: Amy Barry (@amybarryauthor / @amytmatthews_author)

Kit McBride Gets a Wife, Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Marrying Off Morgan McBride, Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Young Guns (1988, Stan)

Tess LeSue (Amy’s earlier romance author alter ego)

Done & Dusted, Lyla Sage (2023, Hachette)

Flawless, Elsie Silver (2023, Hachette)

Love on Campus podcast

Cowboy Carter, Beyonce

‘Cowboy Phase’ by Lily O’Brien in Kill Your Darlings

Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)

LaVyrle Spencer

Jude Devereaux

Jodi Thomas

Darry Fraser (Australian historical/colonial romance author)

Best, First and Last, Amy T Matthews (March 2025, Simon & Schuster)

That Island Feeling, Karina May (Dec 31 2024, Pan Macmillan)

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Writes4Women RWA Conference Round Up  

Tenderly I Am Devoured, Lyndall Clipstone

‘Romance Novels Are Literature’, Casey McQuiston, TIME Magazine

The Paradise Problem, The Unhoneymooners, Beautiful Player, The True Love Experiment, Christina Lauren

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne

The Book Ninja, While You Were Reading, Fancy Meeting You Here, Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus

Books On The Rail

Nicci French

The Glass House, Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist

Stuck Up And Stupid, Angourie & Kate Rice

The View Was Exhausting, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

The Wedding Forecast, Nina Kenwood

Experienced, Kate Young

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Guest: Anne Freeman (@annefreemanwrites, newsletter, workshops) 

Me That You See / Returning To Adelaide, Anne Freeman

@hollybrunnbauer

Anne & Casey Nott on Writes4Women

Parks and Rec

The Happy Ever After Playlist, Abby Jimenez 

The Paradise Problem, Christina Lauren 

City of Girls, Elizabeth GIlbert 

The Studio Girls, Lisa Ireland 

Never Ever Forever, Karina May 

Love Match, Clare Fletcher 

The Wedding Forecast, Nina Kenwood

Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley 

A Language of Limbs, Dylin Hardcastle 

Secret Book Stuff

Alice and the Impossible Game, Anna Foxkirk 

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Guest: @AbraPresslerAuthor

Love and Other Scores, Abra Pressler (2023, Pan Macmillan)

Northern Beaches Writers Festival Sept 27-29

Here For The Right Reasons, Jodi McAlister

Red, White and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkin Reid

A League Of Their Own

‘Take Me Out To The Ballgame’ sung by Clare’s daughter Dot

Love Match, Clare Fletcher

Icebreaker, Hannah Grace

The Mighty Ducks

Playing The Field, Zoe Foster Blake

Fangirl Down, Tessa Bailey

Cleat Cute, Meryl Wilsner

Amy Andrews’ rugby themed books

The Prospects, KT Hoffman

The Art of Catching Feelings, Alicia Thompson

10 Things that Never Happened, Alexis Hall

I Hope This Finds You Well, Natalie Sue

You Belong With Me, Mhairi McFarlane

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Featuring: Clare Fletcher (Instagram) and Karina May (Instagram)

• Pan Macmillan open submissions
• Australian Society of Authors (ASA) contract review service and Virtual Literal speed dating events
• Alex Adsett Literary Consultancy
• Australian Writers Centre (AWC) courses
• Year of the Novel with Emily Maguire and upcoming Writing NSW courses
• Emily Maguire
• Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) conference, Adelaide 2024
• Penny Carroll editor
• Katherine Collette author and writing coach

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Featuring: Clare Fletcher (Instagram) and Karina May (Instagram)

• Blinky Bill, Dorothy Wall (1933, HarperCollins)
• The Muddleheaded Wombat, Ruth Park (1962, HarperCollins)
• Anything from May Gibbs
• The Secret Garden (1911, Penguin) A Little Princess (1905, Penguin), Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (1996, Macmillan)
• One Day, David Nicholls (2009, Hachette)
• Jessica Dettmann (How To Be Second Best, This Has Been Absolutely Lovely, Without Further Ado)
• Minnie Darke (Star-Crossed, The Lost Love Song, With Love from Wish & Co)
• The Baby-Sitters Club, Baby-Sitters Little Sister, (1986-2000, Ann M. Martin, Scholastic)
• Anything from Sophie Kinsella
• Anything from Jane Green

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Guest: Melanie Saward (@LittleRedWrites on Instagram & TikTok)

Love Unleashed, Melanie Saward (August 6, 2024, Penguin)

Tom Lake, Ann Patchett

Abby Jimenez

Manhattan Dreaming, Anita Heiss

I Heart New York, Lindsey Kelk

Gossip Girl

Sex And The City

A Winter in New York, Josie Silver

Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy Matthews

You, Again, Kate Goldbeck

Everything from Nora Ephron

Serendipity

Book Lovers, Emily Henry

The Truth According to Ember, Danica Nava

The Prospects, KT Hoffman

Out On a Limb and Next Of Kin, Hannah Bonam-Young

The House With All The Lights On, Jessica Kirkness

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Guest: Natalie Murray (Instagram, TikTok)

Love, Just In, Natalie Murray

Emmie and the Tudor King, Natalie Murray

Funny Story, Emily Henry

‘Emily Henry Is Proud to Be Called a Romance Writer’

https://www.tiktok.com/@todayshow/video/7361216748193991979 

The Idea of You, Robinne Lee / movie

The Work, Bri Lee

Tessa Bailey 

Four Night Stand, Georgia Moore

Emily Henry on Shameless Book Club

Sarah J. Maas

Kit McBride Gets A Wife, Amy Barry

Experienced, Kate Young

Open Minded, Chloe Seager

NOTE: Our conversation defaulted to mostly cis-het spicy romances, but some authors we love who rep queer and diverse characters are Claire Christian, Casey McQuiston, Abra Pressler, Georgia Clark, Ashley Herring Blake, Meryl Wilsner and KT Hoffman. Links and more on our Substack.

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