That Rom Com Pod

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ BookRiot's reading log Australian Society of Authors free webinar: Understanding readers and their habits, with Australia Reads Dymocks Sydney Books in Bars Valentine’s Day romance author panel with Karina May, Josh Hortinela, Natalie Murray, Leesa Ronald and Amy Andrews. Save the date – Thursday, February 12, 2026 Dangerously Modern Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 at The Art Gallery of NSW until 15 February 2026 (Spotify Playlist, Coffee table book One Golden Summer, Carly Fortune (2025) Love & Other Scores, Abra Pressler (2023) After the Siren, Darcy Green (2025) Power Moves, Leesa Ronald (2025) Engaged, Apparently, Amy Andrews (Coming January 2026) In Spite Of You, Patrick Lenton (2025) Hate You to Love You, Josh Hortinela (Coming September 2026) Heart the Lover, Lily King (2025) Table for One, Emma Gannon (2025) Chosen Family, Madeline Gray (2025) A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances, Steph Vizard (2025) Lights, Camera, Love, Natalie Murray (2025) Love Overdue, Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus (2025) Your Friend and Mine, Jessica Dettmann (2025) Ghosted, Amy Hutton (2025) The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein (2025) Chosen Family, Madeline Gray (2025) The Hiding Place, Kate Mildenhall (2025) Heart the Lover, Lily King (2025) The Heir Apparent, Rebecca Armitage (2025) The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard (2024) How to End A Story, Collected Diaries, Helen Garner (2025) Everyone and Everything re-read, Nadine J. Cohen (2023) Almost Life, Kiran Millwood Hargrave (2026) Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley (2024) Better Than the Real Thing, Brooke Crawford (2026) When the Party’s Over, Katie Hoskins (2026) Writers and Lovers, Lily King (2021) Loved One, Aisha Muharrar (2025) The Time After Now, Anne Freeman (2026) Side Character Energy, Olivia Tolich (February, 2026) The Boyfriend Clause, Bridie Blake (March, 2026) People We Meet on Vacation premieres 9 January on Netflix! Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @amalmdawad or her website  If you’d like to make a donation, Amal recommends the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medecins Sans Frontieres.  Courting Samira, Amal Awad (2011) This is How You Get Better, Amal Awad (2015) The Things We See in the Light, Amal Awad (2021) Our conversation with Saman Shad (who released her new novel The Sex Lives of Married Women earlier this year): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/set-ups-with-saman-shad/id1703734806?i=1000651936624  https://thatromcompod.substack.com/p/episode-16-set-ups-with-saman-shad  Bitter & Sweet, Amal Awad (2023) Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2007) Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women, Amal Awad Mostly Martha (2002, available to rent on Prime) No Reservations (2007, Stan) Blessed Are The Cheesemakers, Sarah-Kate Lynch (2001, Penguin) By Bread Alone, Sarah-Kate Lynch (2003, Penguin) Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @lauracarterauthor  Catch A Falling Star, Laura Carter The Idea Of You Lick, Kylie Scott  Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid Deep Cuts, Holly Brickley Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult The Lost Love Song, Minnie Darke Love is a War Song, Danica Nava Never Been Shipped, Alicia Thompson August Lane, Regina Black | The Critical Heart Here Comes The Ex, Portia MacIntosh Back in the Saddle, Maggie Eckersley Rock My World, Camilla Isley Romance is Dead, Katie Bohn Head First, Claire Kershaw Say You’ll Remember Me, Abby Jimenez Isn't It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things, Jessica Seaborn Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @hollybrunnbauer / website / No Shelf Control / The Write Track What Did I Miss?, Holly Brunnbauer (2025, HarperCollins) The Debut Crew 2025 (The Write Reads) It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake, Claire Christian  Claire Christian on The First Time podcast Dying For Sex Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy Matthews  Emergency Exit Only, Michelle Upton The Life List  Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert / Stan The Bucket List  Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice, Cynthia Timoti  Midnight Gate, S.K. Stapar  Big Feelings, Amy Lovat  Starry Eyed, Katharine Pollock  Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Jessica Stanley (@DailyDoseOfJess / Read. Look. Think.  Consider Yourself Kissed / A Great Hope, Jessica Stanley The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst American Wife / Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld One Day /You Are Here, David Nicholls Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors Big Feelings / Mistakes and Other Lovers, Amy Lovat Less, Andrew Sean Greer Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason Rise and Shine / Love and Other Puzzles, Kimberley Allsopp Alicia Thompson on miscommunication Happiness Forever, Adelaide Faith Margot’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe Careless People, Sarah Wynne Williams Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @chloeraeberry / @booktokbookclub / The Berry Agency Throne of Glass series, Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury) Mountain Men Matchmaker series, Amy Daws (HarperCollins) ‘Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI’ ASA Guidelines for authors on AI “‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements” Guardian Australia Laurie Gilmore @staceymcewanbooks 831 Stories @DramaKingBooks  Signs of Damage, Diana Reid FairyLoot ‘Which Celebrity Book Club Could (Actually) Change Your Life?’ Emily Gould Gertrude & Alice Immortal, Sue Lynn Tan Out on a Limb, Hannah Bonam-Young Sipsworth, Simon van Booy Seven Brides for Beau McBride, Amy Barry What Did I Miss?, Holly Brunbauer Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @jodimccalister An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane Marry Me Juliet series, Jodi McAlister The Love Contract, Steph Vizard The Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas The Hating Game, Sally Thorne The Paradise Problem, Roomies, Christina Lauren My Big Fat Fake Marriage, Charlotte Stein Seven Brides for Beau McBride, Amy Barry Tempest, Beverly Jenkins The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer When a Scot Ties the Knot, Tessa Dare First Comes Marriage, Mary Balogh To Seduce a Sinner, Elizabeth Hoyt The Geographer’s Map to Romance, India Holton In The Long Run, Emma Mugglestone Mother Tongue, Naima Brown Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ 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) Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ 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 Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @NinaKenwood Love From Scratch, Amy Hutton The Wedding People, Alison Espach Yellowface, Rebecca F Kuang Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld The Book Ninja, Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell Seven Days in June, Tia Williams How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley Writers and Lovers, Lily King The Close Up, Pip Drysdale The Good Sister, Sally Hepworth An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister An Onslaught Of Light, Natasha Rai The Woman In The Waves, Camille Booker Three Days in June, Anne Tyler Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @StephEVizard or her website The Love Contract, Steph Vizard The Banjo Prize An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister Special Delivery, Leesa Ronald Maggie Alderson How to be Second Best, Without Further Ado, Jessica Dettmann The Idea Of You, Robinne Lee / Prime The Last Love Note, Emma Grey Things Will Calm Down Soon, Zoe Foster Blake Grace Under Pressure, Tori Haschka Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier Talking At Night, Claire Daverley Prep, Show Don’t Tell, Curtis Sittenfeld The Private Island, Ali Lowe Recorded on Gadigal land | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ @emmagreyauthor The Woman in The Waves, Camille Booker August Blue, Deborah Levy The Last Illusion of Paige White, Vanessa McCauseland That Island Feeling & Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast Karina May Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy The Official Podcast Riverina Readers Festival The Last Love Note, Emma Grey Pictures of You, Emma Grey Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton Left On Tenth, Delia Ephron https://leftontenthbroadway.com/  Nobody Wants This The Notebook No Hard Feelings, Genevieve Novak The Big Sick More or Less Maddy, Lisa Genova Out On A Limb, Hannah Bonam-Young An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ That Island Feeling, Karina May Karina’s upcoming events: https://linktr.ee/karinamaywrite Here We Go Again, Alison Cochrun The Pairing, Casey McQuiston The Last Illusion of Paige White, Vanessa McCauseland The Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard The Woman in The Waves, Camille Booker Summer in the City, Alex Aster All Fours, Miranda July Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley You Are Here, David Nicholls Special Delivery, Leesa Ronald Pictures of You, Emma Grey Table For One, Emma Gannon Best, First and Last, Amy Matthews Haunted Hearts, Amy Hutton Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane Lights, Camera, Love, Natalie Murray My Hot Housemate, Susannah Hardy Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Merry Gentlemen (2024, Netflix) Georgia Moore posts about xmas movies @georgiamoorewriter (here’s her xmas movies highlight) Our Little Secret (2024, Netflix) Hot Frosty (2024, Netflix) ‘Netflix and Lifetime Ask: What if Christmas Movies Were Sexy?’ (New York Times piece includes the interview with Dustin Milligan recommended via friend of the pod, Amy Hutton) Meet Me Next Christmas (2024, Netflix) Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Amy Andrews @AmyAndrewsBooks, Facebook, website or Substack.  Warnings: Spicy language + Rivals spoilers ~15 min in Rivals (Disney+)  ‘Horniness, hedonism and hope: why Rivals makes me surprisingly nostalgic’ (Guardian) Breaking the Ice, Amy Andrews Breaking All the Rules, Amy Andrews How To Write Academy Look What You Made Me Do, Amy Andrews A Family Affair (Netflix) Lonely Planet (Netflix) The Idea of You (Prime) Natasha Lester’s substack The Younger Man, Zoe Foster Blake Green Dot, Madeleine Gray Mistakes Were Made, Meryl Wilsner Girl Falling, Hayley Scrivener Australian Gospel, Lech Blaine Things Will Calm Down Soon, Zoe Foster Blake Bananapants, Penny Reid Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Gabrielle Tozer (@gabrielletozer) Riverina Readers Festival Before We Met, Gabrielle Tozer To Stir With Love, Kate Mildenhall  Chicken Shop Date - Amelia Dimoldenberg & Andrew Garfield  Nobody Wants This The Unexpected Mess Of It All, Gabrielle Tozer  One Day, David Nicholls  Can’t Say It Went To Plan, Gabrielle Tozer Heartstopper, Alice Oseman / Netflix The Text Prize  Looking for Alibrandi, Melina Marchetta Press Gang  The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt, Mark Mupotsa-Russell  The Wedding People, Alison Espach  Rapture, Emily Maguire  Things Will Calm Down Soon, Zoe Foster Blake  The Sitter, Angela O’Keefe Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Seth AKA @dramakingbooks / TikTok Love, Just In, Natalie Murray Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lovers, Happy Place, Funny Story, Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry How to End a Love Story, Yulin Kuang ‘How to Write a Good Sex Scene’ (The Cut)  That Island Feeling, Karina May ‘Which Emily Henry Books Are Becoming Movies?’ A Novel Love Story, Ash Poston A Love Like The Sun, Riss M Neilson Out On A Limb, Hannah Bonham Young You and I Rewritten, Chip Pons The Prospects, KT Hoffmann Here We Go Again, Alison Cochrun Seven Days In June, Tia Williams Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ 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) Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ 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 Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ 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  Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.