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Chase Me If You Can: A Storm-Chasing Debut + 4 Romance Recs with Heather Frances
Jun 23, 2026
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Fake NOT Dating: A Bollywood-Inspired Romcom Debut | Lavanya Lakshmi
Jun 17, 2026
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Sun-Drenched Thrills: A New Summer Mystery + 4 More Reads You Need | Jaclyn Goldis
Jun 15, 2026
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Democracy in Retrograde: Civics Tips That Don't Make You Spiral | Non-Fiction
Jun 12, 2026
21m 10s
YA Historical Fiction That Adults Need to Read Right Now with Karyn Parsons
Jun 8, 2026
32m 28s
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| 6/23/26 |  Chase Me If You Can: A Storm-Chasing Debut + 4 Romance Recs with Heather Frances | This post contains affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.Storm chasing, forced proximity, and a debut romance that's giving Twisters — but make it swoony. This episode is for every reader whose TBR needs a little weather event.Debut author Heather Frances joins the show to talk about Chase Me If You Can, her contemporary romance about two rival storm-chasing photographers stuck in the same car for the season. We dig into forced proximity done right, the black cat/golden retriever dynamic, and why Sloane is the eldest-daughter coded heroine we didn't know we needed. Heather also shares four romance recommendations she's been loving — cozy dark romance with surprising humor, a chef romance with genuinely great ADHD rep, a Scotland-set romcom full of dysfunctional family yearning, and a messy FMC contemporary that makes you earn the HEA. If you love tropey, emotionally rich romance with characters who feel deeply real, this one's for you.📚 BOOKS MENTIONEDChase Me If You Can by Heather Frances — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Forced Proximity, Rivals to Lovers, Black Cat/Golden Retriever, Storm Chasing, He Falls First, Single POV Prey for Me by Allie Oleander — Buy on Amazon | Dark Romance (cozy dark) | Black Cat FMC, Sunshine MMC, He Falls First, Kink Exploration, Humor | Note: mind content warningsYes, Chef by Grace Reilly — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Grumpy Sunshine, Chef Romance, ADHD Rep, Tattooed MMC, Messy Characters | Just a Highland Fling by Naina Kumar — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Scotland/Travel, Forced Proximity, Dysfunctional Family, Yearning, Romcom | Upcoming release at time of recordingNow That We Don't Talk by Rachel Pologe — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Grief, Messy FMC, He Falls First, Laugh-Out-Loud Humor, Yearning | Upcoming release at time of recording⏱️ TIMESTAMPS[00:00] Welcome & intro — Heather Frances, debut author, photographer, storm chaser[00:01] Storm chasing 101 — plains chasing, monsoon season, photography goals vs. proximity[00:03] Heather's romance reading journey — historicals, Pride & Prejudice variations, arriving at contemporary[00:05] Writing Chase Me If You Can — how storm chasing became a romance setup, the forced proximity logic, balancing technical detail with emotional story[00:07] Book spotlight: Chase Me If You Can — elevator pitch, Wes & Sloane, black cat/golden retriever, he falls first, single POV[00:09] Book rec: Prey for Me by Allie Oleander — cozy dark romance, humor, kink with emotional grounding, Caine & Margot[00:10] Book rec: Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly — grumpy sunshine, chef romance, ADHD rep done with subtlety[00:12] Book rec: Highland Fling by Naina Kumar — Scotland travel romance, dysfunctional family layers, laugh-out-loud moments[00:15] Conversation: dysfunctional families in romance, eldest daughter coded characters, trauma and character arcs[00:17] Book rec: Now That We Don't Talk by Rachel Pologe — messy FMC, grief, earning the HEA, TV comedy writer voice[00:19] Pre-orders matter — why supporting debut and upcoming authors with pre-orders makes a difference[00:19] Where to find Heather — Instagram, Threads (@heatherfrancesauthor)Join the ConversationSubscribe to our Substack for exclusive recommendations. (wtrnblog.substack.com)Follow & Subscribe: What to Read Next Blog | YouTube: What to Read NextSubscribe & leave a review! | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  Fake NOT Dating: A Bollywood-Inspired Romcom Debut | Lavanya Lakshmi | This post contains affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.A debut romcom inspired by Bollywood, built around one of the most delicious twists on fake dating you'll ever read — fake NOT dating. If you love big Indian weddings, chaotic families, and slow-burn tension between two people who desperately want each other but have to pretend they've never met, this episode is your sign to add Leave and Come Back to your TBR immediately.Debut author Lavanya Lakshmi joins the show to talk about her journey from Twilight fanfiction to landing a publishing deal, the Bollywood film that inspired her novel, and why she made the bold choice to get her characters together at the start of the book. We also dig into her reading life and the books she returns to again and again — including a romance she calls her holy grail.📚 Books MentionedLeave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi — Buy on Amazon | Romcom / South Asian Romance | Audio ✅Seven Days in June by Tia Williams — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance / Literary | Audio ✅The View Was Exhausting by Mikaellla Clements & Onjuli Datta — Buy on Amazon | Celebrity Fake Dating Romance | Audio ✅Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin — Buy on Amazon | Literary Fiction / Women's Fiction | Audio ✅ (highly recommended on audio per guest)Summer Sisters by Judy Blume — Buy on Amazon | Women's Fiction / Coming-of-Age | Audio ✅Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell — Buy on Amazon | Craft / WritingNora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Audio ✅Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Audio ✅It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance | Audio ✅Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan — Buy on Amazon | Contemporary Romance⏱️ Timestamps[00:00] Welcome & introducing Lavanya Lakshmi[00:01] Growing up across 4 countries & life in Toronto[00:02] Writing journey: from casual writer to Twilight fanfiction[00:04] Getting an agent early — and walking away from writing[00:05] How a best friend's publishing deal reignited the dream[00:06] Leave and Come Back — the "fake NOT dating" concept explained[00:07] Why the characters get together at the START of the book[00:08] The Bollywood movie that inspired the story (DDLJ)[00:10] Building an Indian wedding timeline & structuring the plot[00:12] Lavanya's reading life — what she reads and why[00:13] Summer Sisters by Judy Blume — a summer re-read tradition[00:14] Book recs begin: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams[00:16] The View Was Exhausting — celebrity fake dating & public life[00:18] Craft tip: retyping your draft to change POV (first → third person)[00:19] Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell — a craft book recommendation[00:20] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin[00:22] Annabel Monaghan — and how she got a blurb from a favorite author[00:23] Where to find Lavanya online + wrap-upJoin the ConversationSubscribe to our Substack for exclusive recommendations. (wtrnblog.substack.com)Follow & Subscribe: What to Read Next Blog | YouTube: What to Read NextSubscribe & leave a review! | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 |  Sun-Drenched Thrills: A New Summer Mystery + 4 More Reads You Need | Jaclyn Goldis | This post contains affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.What if your thriller author and your meditation teacher turned out to be the same person? That's exactly how this conversation started — and it only gets better from there.Laura sits down with author Jaclyn Goldis, whose upcoming novel The Last Time We Saw Her follows a group of former campers who return to the volcanic Azores Islands a decade after one of their own vanished — only for another death to shatter the reunion. It's a twisty, sun-drenched thriller full of unreliable narrators and cold-case documentary vibes, perfect for summer reading. They also dig into Vedic meditation, the creative benefits of boredom, and a stack of thriller and mystery recommendations you'll want to add to your TBR immediately.📚 Books MentionedThe Last Time We Saw Her by Jaclyn Goldis — Buy on Amazon | Thriller My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney — Buy on Amazon | Psychological Thriller We Solve Murders by Richard Osman — Buy on Amazon | Cozy MysteryMagpie Murders (series, Book 1) by Anthony Horowitz — Buy on Amazon | Mystery Rewilding by Jane Green — Buy on Amazon | Memoir / Nonfiction ⏱️ Timestamps[00:00] Welcome & how Laura and Jaclyn know each other[01:00] Jaclyn's background: lawyer turned novelist, life in Tel Aviv[02:00] The Last Time We Saw Her — summer camp, the Azores, cold case documentary[04:00] Vedic meditation — what it is and why Jaclyn swears by it[08:30] The creative benefits of boredom & phone-free walks[10:00] Jaclyn's reading tastes — thrillers, rom-coms, nonfiction[10:30] My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney[11:30] The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman[12:00] Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz[13:00] Rewilding by Jane Green — memoir, Jane Green's reinvention[15:30] Where to find Jaclyn onlineJoin the ConversationSubscribe to our Substack for exclusive recommendations. (wtrnblog.substack.com)Follow & Subscribe: What to Read Next Blog | YouTube: What to Read NextSubscribe & leave a review! | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 |  Democracy in Retrograde: Civics Tips That Don't Make You Spiral | Non-Fiction✨ | civic engagementpolitics+4 | Emily Amick | Emily in Your PhoneDemocracy in Retrograde | — | civic actionpolitical education+3 | — | 21m 10s | |
| 6/8/26 |  YA Historical Fiction That Adults Need to Read Right Now with Karyn Parsons✨ | YA Historical FictionBlack History+3 | Karyn Parsons | Blue BeachClouds Over California+1 | — | Karyn ParsonsYA Historical Fiction+3 | — | 32m 28s | |
| 6/3/26 |  Game Set Match: The Tennis Romance You Need to Read with Jennifer Iacopelli✨ | sports romancetennis+4 | Jennifer Iacopelli | Little Brown's Requited imprintGame Set Match+3 | — | tennis romancesports romance+5 | — | 31m 48s | |
| 6/1/26 |  A Debut Romance Set at the US Open You Need to Read | The Open Era by Edward Schmit✨ | queer romancetennis+4 | Eddie Schmit | Penguin Random HouseThe Open Era+4 | US OpenQueens+1 | queer romancetennis+5 | — | 26m 01s | |
| 5/26/26 |  The YA Authors Writing Adult Books You'll Obsess Over✨ | YA authorsadult fiction+4 | Kelly Mayfield | AmazonEleanor & Park+6 | — | YA fictionadult books+6 | — | 26m 46s | |
| 5/21/26 |  She Wrote Her Debut at 18 — Now It's a Viral Romantasy Series | Powerless by Lauren Roberts✨ | romantasyself-publishing+3 | Lauren Roberts | Simon & SchusterPowerless+6 | — | romantasyPowerless+3 | — | 17m 53s | |
| 5/18/26 |  Quit Your Job & Open a Bookshop: 3 Reads You'll Love | Reads with Alicia✨ | book recommendationsbookshops+3 | Alicia | The Bookshop WomanDays at the Morisaki Bookshop+1 | LondonKorea+1 | bookshopbook recommendations+3 | — | 20m 30s | |
| 5/13/26 |  Billionaire, Secret Societies & Spicy Romance with Ava Rani✨ | romancesecret societies+4 | Ava Rani | The SpareThe Heir+3 | — | Ava Raniromance+3 | — | 36m 50s | |
| 5/11/26 |  Femme Feral: When Midlife Rage Turns You Into a Werewolf with Sam Beckbessinger✨ | midlife ragefemale empowerment+4 | Sam Beckbessinger | Femme FeralDungeon Crawler Carl+4 | — | Femme FeralSam Beckbessinger+5 | — | 25m 01s | |
| 5/7/26 |  Speak Now: The Queer Audio Rom-Com You Need to Hear | Author Interview with Ash Perez✨ | queer rom-comaudiobooks+4 | Ash Perez | Speak NowPoison for Breakfast+4 | — | rom-comaudiobook+5 | — | 20m 55s | |
| 5/4/26 |  Agatha Christie's Housekeeper Solves Murders? | Colleen Cambridge/Gleason: Historical Mystery Author Interview✨ | historical mysteriesamateur sleuths+3 | Colleen Gleason | The Spirit of French MurderMurder at Mallowan Hall+4 | — | Agatha Christiehistorical mystery+3 | — | 32m 58s | |
| 4/27/26 |  Beyond Bridgerton: Classic Historical Romance Hidden Gems | The Duke by Anna Cowan✨ | historical romancequeer literature+3 | Anna Cowan | The DukeBlack Silk+3 | — | queer Regency romancehistorical hero archetype+3 | — | 20m 37s | |
| 4/20/26 |  Why Locked-Room Mysteries Still Work with Molly Harper | Millennial Murder Mysteries✨ | locked-room mysteriescozy mystery+4 | Molly Harper | A Cute Little MurderA Proposal to Die For+4 | — | A Cute Little MurderA Proposal to Die For+3 | — | 16m 59s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Cannes, Murder & Secrets: A Summer Thriller | We Will Never Tell by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau✨ | summer thrillerCannes Film Festival+3 | Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau | We Will Never TellThe French Honeymoon+10 | Cannes | rich people behaving badlyglam+2 | — | 18m 37s | |
| 4/13/26 |  Messy Wedding Rom-Coms You’ll Love | Save the Date by Mallory Kass/Kass Morgan✨ | weddingromantic comedy+3 | Mallory Kass | Save the DateRoyal Summer+4 | — | rom-com tropesensemble casts+1 | — | 15m 47s | |
| 4/11/26 |  The Angsty Romance You Need This Year | The Write Off by Kara McDowell✨ | angsty romancesecond chance romance+3 | Kara McDowell | The Write-OffIs She Really Going Out With Him?+8 | — | contemporary romancebooks+2 | — | 19m 03s | |
| 4/8/26 |  32 Books Later… My Best & Worst Reads of 2026 so far!✨ | book recommendationsreading recap+3 | — | Death al DenteThe Rocky Road to Ruin+24 | Puerto Rico | 2026reading+2 | — | 15m 30s | |
| 4/6/26 |  Inside The Paris Match with Kate Clayborn | Contemporary Romance✨ | contemporary romancesecond chances+2 | Kate Clayborn | The Paris MatchBeginner’s Luck+4 | Paris | Parislove stories+1 | — | 15m 05s | |
| 4/2/26 |  Magical Forest Fantasy Books with Love Stories with Elly Blake✨ | fantasy romanceYA fantasy+4 | Elly Blake | FrostbloodForest King’s Daughter+8 | — | romantasyfairy tales+2 | — | 20m 42s | |
| 3/31/26 |  Graphic Novels for Beginners (Start Here) with Sophia Glock✨ | graphic novelscomics+3 | Sophia Glock | Before We WakeMaus+7 | Iran | Before We WakeMaus+2 | — | 17m 09s | |
| 3/26/26 |  From Reading Slump to 200 Books a Year with Nathalie Canadas✨ | reading slumpbook community+6 | Nathalie Cañadas | Kindle UnlimitedBroken Romeo+6 | — | reading groovecommunity+1 | — | 30m 06s | |
| 3/23/26 |  Romance, Sisterhood and How Simi Got Her Groom Back with Sonali Dev✨ | romancesisterhood+5 | Sonali Dev | How Simi Got Her Groom BackThe Caste and the Star+2 | — | contemporary romancewomen's fiction+2 | — | 32m 17s | |
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