#fallsonlove

alternately titled "fuck rita clay"

The episode I’m chatting with the homie, Angela Seals. She tells me how her love for all things romance spurred her to write it out, we stan for Alexandra Warren, pushing yourself to write outside of your comfort zone to create something new and what she loves about collaborations.

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This episode I’m chopping it up with author Jade Royal. She’s a lovey Dover romantic at heart which is why she channeled that energy into writing. We also talk about her desire to flip tropes on their head through her writing and the pros and cons of world building in different subgenres of romance.

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Gabbing with Monica Walters on this episode and she breaks down her simple reason for writing romance, writing contemporary with an urban flair, and how her life experiences really bolster her writing.

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Chopping it up with J. Nichole on this episode and we get into why she feels like romance is a safe place to land when life is going super haywire, the one trope she has not written yet, and the writer’s retreat that she’s putting together with Author MT Dixon!

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This week I’m chopping it up with the funny and fabulous Alexandria House. This episode is a treat as we discuss her McClain brothers, her penchant for writing series and giggle our way through the majority of this show, honestly.

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Chopping it up with Aubree Pynn on this episode and we bond over the most random things like Charmed and waffles. We also get into the fact that she’s been secret writing and hoarding books since 2012 and is now unleashing them upon the world.

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This week I’m chopping it up with my crazy cousin Anita Davis in which she sings some Captain and Tennille, stan a lil bit for one miss Sherelle Green’s Crayson, and we cut up and act silly which is undeniable whenever she and I get together.

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This week’s show has the homie Asia Monique! We chop it up about how she started writing romance, stanning a lil bit for BriAnn Danae, how her characters across all books she’s written are interlinked, and just have a good ol time!

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This week I’m chopping it up with Nicole Ryse and we talk abutter transition from an author of mystery to contemporary romance, she introduces me to an old school romance novel I’d never heard of, we geek out about the bath and body works semi annual candle sale, talk about how it’s weird to have a character with the same name as someone you know, and how she thought Phylicia Rashad was her mom.

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This week I’m speaking with the homie, BriAnn Danae—the urban romancer! She and I chat about why she writes romance, stan a lil bit for fellow author ShanicexLola, how neither of us watches too much television, but love some HGTV, and a deeper dive into how her brain works.

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This week I’m chopping it up with author Katrina Jackson. We chopped it up about all sorts of things including stunted dating options, the necessity of soft and floofy romance novels, uncovered pies, food touching, HBO’s Real Sex, “there’s so many penises!” and the differences between erotica and erotic romance.

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Today’s show features miss Lex C. aka Alexis Cñe. She and I chop it up about loving love, writing enemies to lovers, her obsession with cake, & we chop it up a bit about her work.

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This week I have author C.Monet on the show and we talk about finding your lane and staying in it, why I personally believe that romances must have a HEA/HFN, friends to loves vs. enemies to lovers, and a whole heap of other things! It’s a good time! :)

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This week I’m chopping it up with ShanicexLola, we’re talking about mining friends lives for content aka “selling everyone out in a beautiful way” LOL, people telling you their life stories because you have a kind face, how she’s a better person than me and I definitely make some time to stan a little for her work.

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This week I’m chopping it up with mah freeeeeen, Sherelle Green. We talk about writing people who are falling in love with the imperfections in others, Brenda Jackson being her entry into falling in love with romance, and then, the convo devolves into authors being more than a brand on social media to connect with readers.

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This week I’m chopping it up with the homie A. Marie Johnson! We talk about her motivations for writing black love, stan over ShanicexLola’s character Jason from Atypical, reading and writing simultaneously with no problem, and the alchemy of the ladies at B. Love Publications.

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Chopping it up with my G, Chelsea. We talk about her love of black love, her desire to branch out beyond typical love stories and why she chooses to write about contemporary relevant issues within society in addition to weaving a tale of romance.

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My NOLA homie Diana is on the podcast this week. We chop it up about how she came to write romance despite not consuming it in any other media, do a little bit of Love Belvin stanning, and expecto brazillio. You gotta listen to the ep get that last one. We also do a lot of giggling & it’s a good time.

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Me and my new found Cousin, D.Rose have a good ass time talking about how she got into romance, we bond over waffles & talk about the importance of knowing who you are as an author to be successful in this industry. Check it out!

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This episodes features my girl Elle and we chop it up about how she thought she would be a screenwriter, not a novelist amongst other things. Listen to us giggle our way through this episode as we dive deeper into the world of Elle Wright, author.

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This week I chat it up with the author of a series that is getting mad buzz in the indie world, The Collide Series, Millie Belizaire. She was such a joy to chat with, so young yet so wise beyond her years, LOL. I sound like an old lady or something, haha! We chop it up about the universal relatability (yes, I know it isn’t a word) of romance, flipping the arranged marriage trope, and Millie’s very hilarious answer to the very important question of pancakes versus waffles.

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This episode features author Bianca Xaviera and we cut up! Bianca is hella entertaining and we have a good chuckle or twelve. Miss B and I chop it up about a whole cornucopia of things including what inspires her to write, stanning for Love Belvin & Alexandra Warren, staying true to yourself when writing and some of the things she wants to write in the future.

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Chopping it up with the homie Jamie Wesley! I’m mad sick and you can hear it all in my voice, but it’s still such a good time. J & I talk about how she and romance go way back like four flats on a cadillac, how romance helped her “get sex”, and many more things!

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This episode I chat it up with new author Nikki Blaire. We speak about how we share a cover image, the "ifs of dating", and how Kindle Unlimited introduced her to the authors that sparked her to go ahead and write her first book.

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This show features a woman I met randomly, but immediately gelled with. Lori and I talk about how hard it is to write a true romantic comedy, her strong attachment to all of the words she writes, and her very manual process on the first draft.

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This show features author India Lindsey and we speak about what drove her from writing suspsense to romance, her desire to read and write more LGBTQIA love stories, and our shared favorite romance trope.

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Cassandra's story was one that was interesting to me from the beginning, so I was glad to be able to speak with her. She and I speak about love being a catalyst for almost every great story, her journey of being published by KimaniTru since she was 16, then transitioning onto indie publishing and her preference for writing in third person.

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This show features author Kim Golden, all the way from Sweden! She and I chat a bit about how she'd make up new storylines while watching soap operas with her granddad and how she still does this today.

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I have author Britt Joni with me and we're talking about the importance of writing black romance for representation's sake, her knack for matchmaking, and we have a moment about waffles.

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Guess who’s bizzack! This week I’m speaking with author Eliza David and we speak about everything from midwest geography to old school black fiction writers like Connie Briscoe and April Sinclair. Such a fun and interesting conversation, if I d’usse so myself!

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