013. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams with Steve Ammidown

Guest: Steve Ammidown (Manuscripts and Research Archivist at BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library)

We read: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Website: BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html

Twitter: @Stegan

BGSU Pop Culture Library Twitter

Books mentioned:

• Aphrodite’s Kiss by Julie Kenner

• Brothers Sinister series by Courtney Milan

• Entwined Destinies by Elsie Washington - first category romance by a black woman featuring black main characters

• Gaywyck by Vincent Virga

• Throwing Stones by Avery Cockburn (Curling Romance)

Can you redeem baddies from book 1 in book 2?

Kini Allen’s episode - Julianna Keyes’ Time Served has an antagonist who is the MC in Book 2, In Her Defense

Alisha Rai, Forbidden Hearts series.

• Book 1: Hate to Want You

• Book 2: Wrong to Need You

Discussed in Episode 1, We discussed Lord Saint Vincent from Lisa Kleypas’s Wallflower series, who is the villain in book 2 (It Happened One Autumn) but the MC in book 3 (Devil in Winter)

Other mentions:

• Editor Vivian Stephens at Dell Candlelight

• Jessica Lynn Van Slooten Ted Talk: Romance Novels Are Feminist

• BGSU Researching the Romance 2020 Conference with Alyssa Cole - April 22-23, 2020

• RWA About The Romance Genre (cites % men reading romance)

Trope Town: Men’s Friendships

• Brothers Sinister Series by Courtney Milan

• Rules for Scoundrels Series by Sarah MacLean

• Double Up by Vanessa North

• Roller Girl by Vanessa North

• FBI/US Attorney Series by Julie James (starts with Something About You)

• Rafe by Rebekah Weatherpoon

• Champions of Desire Series by Christa Tomlinson

• A Tale of Two Cities Novellas by Alexandra Warren

Contributors:

@Readaholic19, Jess (@romtenkey) on Twitter, Kat Jackson, Nathan Burgoine