Rae Shawn and Ali Williams (who also writes as Ellie Rose) sit down for chat about queerness and feminism, in and beyond romance.

Ali focuses on what is important to her in romance from content warnings to processing trauma and how everything can lead to a happily ever after, or happy for now.

The pair talk about what’s missing and where there needs to be more in various facets of romance.

There are discussions of relationship trauma, content warnings triggering people, feminism through the years, kink, ADHD and autism and more.

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Rae Shawn and Chencia C. Higgins sit down for a frank conversation about what Chencia wants and likes to see in books, and how Black women should be treated. Periodt.

The pair also discuss some of the issues surrounding how Black women are sometimes portrayed and how that can be different, if an author so chooses. Visiting Chencia’s backlist also pulls a nugget of information on an EVENTUAL title readers will get to see. Keyword, eventual.

If you haven't read Chencia’s latest release A Little Kissing Between Friends, you might want to skip the spoiler from 49:05-53:25. There are also teases of scenes following that portion for the next 7-10 minutes.

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Rae Shawn and Rien Gray sit down to have a fun, yet serious conversation about writing the stories we want to see. Rien touches on wanting to continue normalizing stories showcasing trans characters, bisexual women, lesbians, butch and nonbinary characters and everything that encompasses the word sapphic. Rae and Rien also talk about food in Chicago, books they are looking forward too and a way to focus on the now through weightlifting.

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