The Meet Cute BookPod

Meet Cute Romance Bookshop is a queer-owned, feminist bookshop focusing on genre romance, located in San Diego, CA. This is the Meet Cute BookPod! Our virtual and in-store events will be rebroadcast here, so if you don't live near us or you prefer to listen rather than watch via Zoom, we've got you covered! And, on top of that, we'll be doing some podcast exclusive deep dives into the world of romance writing, reading, and publishing!

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Latest episodes

17 April 2024

Author Alison Cochrun with Mazey Eddings, A Virtual Event Recording

Today, we have the audio recording of our April 3rd, 2024 virtual event celebrating Alison Cochrun’s latest book Here We Go Again, a sapphic romcom about death in which two childhood friends to enemies to lovers take their beloved, terminally ill former teacher on a cross country roadtrip. Alison is in conversation with the great Mazey Eddings.

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10 April 2024

Author Mazey Eddings, a Pod Exclusive

Becca chats with Mazey Eddings, author of A Brush With Love, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake, and the forthcoming sapphic rom-com Late Bloomer.

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03 April 2024

Author KT Hoffman, a Pod Exclusive

Becca chats with author KT Hoffman whose debut, The Prospects, a queer baseball romcom, is out April 9th! KT talks about his introduction to genre romance, all the books he wrote before this one, what it is that is so romantic about baseball (and what position he’d play on the romancelandia fantasy baseball team), writing a romance with a trans main character who is just a fundamentally optimistic dude, his writing process and his approach to sex scenes, what’s so great about the third person present tense, and, of course, he shares some books he’s loved recently.

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27 March 2024

Narrator and Author Natalie Naudus

Today, we have Becca’s chat with audiobook narrator and indie author Natalie Naudus. You may know her voice from such hits as One Last Stop, Starling House, She Who Became the Sun, and Daughter of the Moon Goddess, among many more.

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20 March 2024

Writing and Publishing Trans Romance, An Author Panel (Rerelease)

Today, in celebration of the Trans Rights Readathon which is returning for a second year (running from March 22-29th) we are re-sharing the recording of our panel on Writing and Publishing Trans Romance with Anita Kelly, EE Ottoman, and Emory Lee, moderated by TJ Alexander.

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13 March 2024

Book Bans with Philomena Polefrone

Today, we’re talking about book bans. What are they? Where are they happening? And, most importantly, what can we do to fight them? Philomena Polefrone from the American Booksellers for Free Expression project is here to break it down. For more information, find the American Booksellers for Free Expression on Instagram or Facebook at ABFEFreeExpression.

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