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Heaving Bosoms

Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

Melody Carlisle and Sabrina Bradley love romance and they do it out loud! Every Monday, these long-distance best friends recap romance novels from a comedic, intersectional feminist, sex-positive perspective. If you"re itching for a BFF book club or just love raucous slumber party vibes, this is the show for you! Whether you"ve read the book or not, all are welcome! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound.

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01:52:50

Ep. 216 - A Thanksgiving to Remember by Margaret Watson

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/11/29

It's inspirational Thanksgiving romance time!!! This year we've got a virginal nurse and an amnesiac maybe criminal. And a mystery. And a PROWLER. Need we say more? Bonus Content: Amazing book cover photoshop, is it following your intuition or is it stalking?, how to make a hotel room more "homey," *Bing Boong Bong* Crime Times and Undercover Ops with Erin, answering the question "where should I take you?" with "What's a good first hole to try?!"Lady Loves: Melody: ....Erin: Craft night with

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02:01:04

Ep. 215 - Encore! Thanksgiving Groom by Brenda Minton

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2021/11/22

Hey HBs! It's Thanksgiving week for us Americans! That means a special encore episode of a favorite Thanksgiving book! This one features an heiress determined to prove her worth in the Alaskan wilderness and a lawyer with *deep* *dark* *issues* who accidentally-on-purpose got lost in the wilderness. They're objectively terrible people! CW: faith, specifically Christianity, is a huge topic in this book. We tried to be respectful of religion in general, while still comment on these characters and

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02:09:40

Ep. 214 - Jane Eyre with Vanessa Zoltan!

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/11/15

Hey HBs, Vanessa Zoltan joins us to chat all about Jane Eyre, the absence of Michael Fassbender's penis, and so much more! Make sure to check out Vanessa's new book Praying with Jane Eyre and her Hot and Bothered podcast! Bonus Content: deeply cock-in Fassbender, an exploration of how freeing the confines of a "cupboard" might be - just change your perspective, teens with a lot of emotions, that flipper man from the Hunger Games, THEN JUDY DENCH ARRIVED!, why fire training is important, why it's

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01:34:11

Ep. 213 - Mission Her Protection by Anna Hackett

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2021/11/08

Hey HBs!!!!!! It's our annual Veteran's Day event! I hope you're ready for an action-packed ride complete with roof dives and murder yetis! Mission: Her Protection was a super fun romp with a scientist heroine and an extra secret special ops man who were friends as children and are reunited when an arctic mission goes very wrong. It's non-stop and served up some good sex scenes! Bonus Content: Erin's new Classifications of Military Romance (#scientistsin2022), the rules of doing science in the

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01:22:36

Ep. 212 - Encore! Halloween Boo by Sarah Spade

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/11/01

Hey HBs, it's our first sexy ghost!!!! Come join us for Halloween Boo by Sarah Spade. It's a lovely tale of a ghost who falls in love with the woman who lives in the apartment he's haunting and gets the 24 hours of Halloween to become corporeal! He not only *gets* a boner, but he GETS TO USE IT! And Spade does a ton of fabulous references to Halloween classic Hocus Pocus. Bonus Content: The "Murder Smolder" TM, the naughty lobster who must be punished, Erin tells us about her ghost, how we (as

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01:21:08

Ep. 211 - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/10/25

Happy Spoooooky Season, HBs! We're recapping The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling! We've got a couple of witches, an accidental curse, and chemistry that hasn't diminished in the 9 years they've been apart. Second chance romance! Ghosts! Viagra potions gone wrong! Plus, witchy sisterhood wins the day! It's an HEA all around. Bonus Content: Rooster's dreams are coming true, the decline of Erin's favorite fall show Halloween Wars, and so much more! Check out the charity anthology to support Planned Parenthood

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01:13:55

Ep. 210 - Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies with Clyve Rose

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2021/10/18

Hey y'all! Clyve Rose joins Melody to recap the movie Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies! Come to England Times Zombie Apocalypse and do some deadly arts with us! Plus, the best version of the proposal/refusal scene that's ever been made. Lady Loves: Clyve: vintage lingerie and a hot bath. Episode Sponsor: Radish! Unlimited romance stories in a serialized form, and it's free! Go to radish.social/hb to sign up today! Make sure to check out Mel's new podcast Bonkers Romance! Subscribe! Rate! Review

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01:32:00

Ep. 209 - 4th Podiversary!

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2021/10/11

Happy 4th Podiversary, Listener! We're 4 years old! Also, American HBs, Happy Indigenous People's Day! In this episode, Erin does her State of the Podcast address, we take a few listener questions, and Mel agonizes over combinations of F*ck/Marry/Kill that Erin has created. She's just as diabolical as always. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! We so appreciate each and every one of you. Please fill out our survey so we can make the show even better! Mentioned in this episode:Check out our Etsy Store!Hey

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01:39:28

Ep. 208 - Love's Serenade by Sheryl Lister

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/10/04

Hey everyone! This week we've got a super sweet novella called Love's Serenade by Sheryl Lister. It wasn't a home run for us, but we loved being thoroughly steeped in 1920's Harlem as we watched Leigh and Miles find each other again. Plus, there were a ton of super impactful historical easter eggs throughout! And hot sex! It's part of the "Decades: A Journey of African American Romance" series. Bonus Content: bedside chocolate, squirrels carrying another squirrel in it's mouth, we're famous,

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02:02:25

Ep. 207 - He's All That with Jenny Nordbak

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/09/27

Hey HBs! Another friend is here! Jenny Nordbak joins Erin and Melody to discuss her new podcast Bonkers Romance and her romance debut HIS LEADING LADY. She's releasing a scorchingly hot contemporary romance about a Hollywood A-List actor who's trying to roughen up his squeaky clean image and an elite dominatrix who doesn't want the limelight, but can't help but be drawn to his mysterious charisma. There's fake dating and BDSM training and it's a book you absolutely have to read! Then, we recap

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Bonus Bosoms - Bonkers Romance Ep. 1: "The Tightrope"

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/09/24

BONKERS ROMANCE IS BORN TODAY! Heaving Bosoms has a sister podcast! Mel's new team-up with Jenny Nordbak is barrels of fun, so check it out! You can listen on all platforms! Check out their website here And make sure to tune in to episode 2: "Spider Shibari with Sierra Simone." Enjoy! Mentioned in this episode:Love the show? Leave a review! Give HB a 5 Star rating and review wherever you listen! It helps us grow and makes us feel like 1 million dollars. And we're still doing the bribe! If you leave

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01:41:42

Ep. 206 - Miss Congeniality with Alexis Daria

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/09/20

Hey HBs! Alexis Daria is here to tell us all about her new release, A Lot Like Adios! It's the second in her Primas of Power series and IT'S DELICIOUS! Second chance romance, family redemption, fan fiction, and super steamy!!! It's everything we wanted and more. We get to cackle about Miss Congeniality and, even though it was *obviously* made 20 years ago, it holds up! Basically, ~we think it's goooorgeous, we want to kiiiiiss it, we want to smooooch it, we want to marrrryyyyyy it!~ Bonus Content:

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01:38:26

Ep. 205 - Taking on the Billionaire by Robin Covington

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/09/13

Hey HBs! We're here with a delicious own voices category romance: Taking On The Billionaire by Robin Covington! Tess is a private investigator with a vendetta and penchant for giving everyone competence boners, especially her new client. Adam is a self-made billionaire and Native American man who was separated from his parents and siblings at the age of 6 by a racist child protection system, against the Indian Child Welfare Act. First, she found his siblings, now he needs her to find the mole who's

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01:33:10

Ep. 204 - A Princess In Theory by Alyssa Cole (PART...

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2021/09/06

Hey HB's! In honor of our second virtual book club on patreon, we're rereleasing Part 1 of Alyssa Cole's A Princess In Theory. It's Book 1 of her Reluctant Royals series and SUCH A GREAT READ. We've got Naledi Smith, a public health grad student with 3 jobs and a good head on her shoulders because she was a life-long foster kid and knows she can only rely on herself. Then there's Thabiso Moshoeshoe, her long-lost betrothed, an African Prince, and a person she's never even heard of. He's determined

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01:22:42

Ep. 203 - Heart of Thorns by Sarah Piper with Kim...

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/08/30

Hey HBs! This week Melody is joined by Kim Loraine, author of the Ryker Ranch series and audiobook producer! She brought us a delicious audiobook, HEART OF THORNS AND ROSES by Sarah Piper! There's Vampires, there's witches, there's demons, there's coma patients. The sex is hot and the consent is highly enthusiastic and sexily gotten. What more could you want?? There's *technically* not an HEA because this is the first in a trilogy, but we know these hotheads get there eventually. Bonus Content:

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01:34:49

Ep. 202 - The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (PART 2)

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2021/08/23

Hey beautiful Listener! We're back with Part 2 of The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. Gah! It's so beautiful! In the second half we get to see these two crazy kids get together, break up, and come back to each other. And a ton of this occurs on a whimsical forest bed! Bonus Content: doodles, more HS band hot takes, the logistics of a forest bed, cathartically slashing up a battered copy of Wuthering Heights, Tennessee Williams, and Jandy's follow up to this novel: a standalone thriller about a

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01:35:37

Ep. 201 - The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/08/16

Hey HBs! We're here with one of the most beautifully crafted books we've ever read. YA romance The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson is a gorgeous story of grief and young love. It's also time machine that had us reliving all the ridiculousness that is being a teenager. So, set those vague AIM away messages and strap in for a squee session! CW: death of a sibling, navigating grief, and loss of a pregnancy. Also CW for Erin's SCALDING hot takes on different instrument players. Sorry, French Horns

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Ep. 200 - Moonglow by Kristen Callihan with Overdue!

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/08/09

Hey HBs! We've got a special crossover episode this week! It's Overdue Bosoms! The guys from the Overdue podcast joined us to recap Moonglow by Kristen Callihan. We had a blast with Craig and Andrew, talking about Sherlock Holmes Times and werewerves. Bonus Content: shepherding newbies into romance, Rent jokes, The Happening, Chekov's werewolf bite, Scottish Independence for Lycans, Erin getting sweaty explaining myriad supernatural lore, throne lounging, hand licking, and so much more! Check out

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Ep. 199 - Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/08/02

Hey HBs! This week we’ve got a fabulously bonkers historical romance, Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt. There’s a fancy blackmail-loving duke who’s been living in the walls of his house, a housekeeper who’s moonlighting in personal espionage, dick-out murders, wrist licking, kidnapping, exhibitionist baths, and SO MUCH MORE. Big Content Warnings: child abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), rape, pedophilia, animal abuse, and murder. Bonus Content: dusty velvet bows, our adoration for a fancy man,

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01:25:31

Ep. 198 - Keeping the Faith with Andie J. Christopher!

Heaving Bosoms ·

2021/07/26

Hey y'all! Andie J. Christopher is here to talk about her new release Hot Under His Collar and recap the 2001 romcom Keeping the Faith! Are there problematic elements in the movie? Yes. Is the priest as hot as Andie's Father Patrick? Not quite. But this movie still f*cks! And should have ended with a throuple. We will both happily die on this hill. Bonus Content: WHERE IS OUR THROUPLE?!, racist Asian representation, emotional wall stands, bring back the f*ckiness of 2000's mid-budget romcoms,

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