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Amy & Book Club

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Amy & Book Club is a bookish podcast with benefits. Amy Matthews is joined by series regulars Justina Ashman, Abby Guy, Millie Heffernan, Payton Hogan and Harry Stewart and by a cast of guesties, both special and specialer. Featuring genre deep dives, author Q&As, and a live book club with a signature cocktail/mocktail, we’re your new favourite interactive book club with an accessibly academic flair. Listen to the pod, embrace the community on socials, and tune in to the livestream for

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69:55

BOOK CLUB: Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/12/01

We're celebrating Christmas early with this month's book club pick: Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin & Marissa Stapley, as recommended to us by our local Christmas Romance expert (the only tick of approval we need!). Join us as we discuss the holiday season and share everything about this small-town novel that made us fall back in love with festivities, family and friendship. Watch the full episode on YouTube: @AmyAndBookclub Follow the Amy & Podcast on IG: @amyandbookclub

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56:29

Amy & After Dark: Podcasting from the Apocalypse

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/10/29

For the final week of October, we're putting our books aside to discuss horror movies: our favourite (and not so favourite) horror films, the return of campy monster horror, future horror movie trends, potentially controversial opinions about the movies Weapons, and more! LINKS: Follow Mik & Onj on IG: @mikandonj Watch the full episode on YouTube: @AmyAndBookclub Follow the Amy & Podcast on IG: @amyandbookclub Join the Amy & Bookclub: Amy & Bookclub Follow Amy Matthews on IG:

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52:48

BOOK CLUB: Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements &...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/10/25

Join the podcast team and get spooky as we sit down to chat about our horror BOTM, Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta. Feast While You Can is a (extremely delicious) strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town, in which the monster that possesses Angelina Sicco can only be repelled by the touch of her childhood crush, sternly handsome Jagvi … oh no 😔 Follow Mik & Onj on IG: @mikandonj Watch the full episode on YouTube: @AmyAndBookclub Follow the Amy

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56:17

What a Sexy Monster: Interview with Mikaela Clements...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/10/15

This week, we dive straight into talking about one of our favorite reads this year, and get the chance to interview married couple and our BotM authors, Mikaela Clements and Onjuli Datta. We talk about what it's like to write possession, how horror and romance intertwine, the consumption of the dreaded Pit Monster, and--of course--what's behind Jagvi and Angelina's tender, thorny path towards each other. 🎃 Our Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyandbookclub/ Facebook:

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51:11

You Can Bury Your Gays: Queer Horrormance and the...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/10/08

Strap in for more horror talk this week because Amy & Harry and Millie are joined by horror connoisseur Riley Jones to talk all things horrormance (horror/romance). Is paranormal fiction just a subgenre of horror? Does horror actually have to be scary? Are you allowed to kill the queer characters in your horrormance? All these questions and more will be answered. Our book of the month is Feast While You Can. Read along with us and tune in to our interview with the authors on October 16 followed

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51:50

A FEAR OF CARPETED STAIRCASES: Liminal Horror, Mad...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/10/02

Amy & Abby are joined by writers and experts Tabby Knight and Oscar Sparkes to kick off our horror-themed October (because what else would we be doing this month?!). What to expect from this spooky episode: defining genres, the origins of liminal horror, mad scientists, fears, and a watch- or read-list the length of a Stephen King novel. Our book of the month is Feast While You Can. Read along with us and tune in to our interview of the authors on October 16 followed by the live book club on

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53:02

Intro to Life Writing: Things Keep Happening

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/09/03

This month we're talking about life writing.... including what on earth that means. Amy & series regulars Justina, Payton, and Millie may not be experts, but it turns out they've consumed a lot more of the genre than they thought. Join them as they talk about the myriad types of life writing, how scary it is to write about yourself, and why the patriarchy is at it again. Our Book of the Month is The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright! Grab a copy of the book, read along and join us at the end of

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48:14

The Romance of Studying & Why We Drink: Interview...

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2025/08/20

This week on Amy & we're thrilled to be interviewing romance author and academic, Jodi McAlister, about her career and latest romance novel,An Academic Affair !! Join us as we ask Jodi all about writing romance fiction as an academic from her latest research on bonkbusters and erotic audio, to creating a believable rivals to lovers plot against the backdrop of a 'brutal neoliberal institution that will never love you back' (not to mention dreaming about the perfect wine pairings). Our Book of

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42:15

We're All Baby Academics (but not in a reproductive...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/08/06

Welcome to Academia Month, where the vibes are casual but the thoughts are deep 🧠. In this episode, Amy is joined by Justina, Millie, and special return guestie Kathleen Stanley to talk all things academia. Tune in to hear all about their TEXT special issue, how being an academic is both scary and fun, and why you don't have to justify being a romance researcher anymore! Our Book of the Month is An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister! Grab a copy of the book, read along and join us at the end of the

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49:51

Amy & After Dark: Our Roman Empire is Dorcas Two Shots

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2025/07/31

Not ready to say goodbye to Western month yet? Good! Neither are we! It's the last week of our cast takeover and we’re lucky enough to have a cheeky fifth Thursday – which means it's time for Amy & After Dark! These are the late-night episodes where we get cosy and yap about all the things that don't fit into our regular podcast schedule. At the behest of Amy, our holidaying host, we tucked into some popcorn and s'mores with all the table manners of a band of backwoodsmen and sat

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46:11

People Yearn to Scoot Their Boots: The Rise of...

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/07/09

Put on your cowboy boots and grab a partner for the square dance, because we ain't finished talkin' cowboys just yet! ⋆˖°.𖤓𓄀🂾𐚁𓃗.°˖⋆ In this episode we are joined by writer, social media manager, cowboy enthusiast and boot scootin' professional, Bee Saint James, as well as academic and Christmas romance (occasionally on a ranch) expert Kathleen Stanley, to talk all things contemporary cowboy romance novels. Should we bring back the dance social? Which parts of the wild west do

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41:29

Queer Romance Fiction: How to Jettison Joy This Pride

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/06/04

Must there always be a boy one and a girl one? Is there only one way to write a queer HEA? What's the difference between representing queer people and queering the genre itself? Amy & Harry, Abby, and Justina are kicking off Pride Month with a discussion about all of this and more. Mentioned:Female Masculinity andThe Queer Art of Failureby Jack Halberstam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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59:31

Amy & After Dark: Taboo and Dark Romance Novels

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/05/28

Amy & the podcast team don their oodies and pyjamas to sit down After Dark and have a conversation about the topics that don't make it into our four-week schedule. This week, as part of smut month, we discuss the rise in dark & taboo romance novels. What is dark romance? Why are these narratives more popular now more than ever? Should we be concerned about the easy access to these novels as they are sold and distributed by department stores? Where do these novels belong on the shelves? No

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68:59

BOOKCLUB: Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/05/23

Hi Booklovers! This week, Amy & the podcast team sat down to chat about Christina Lauren'sBeautiful Bastard and all things smut-tastic! Where are the lines between romance, erotica and porn? What makes sex in a rom-com novel 'good'? We explore the length, width and depth of this very slippery topic! Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling co-author duo writes both Young Adult

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53:44

Traitorous Nipples: Interview with Christina Lauren

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/05/14

Amy & Harry talk with special guests, the legendary duo Christina Lauren! Through the laughs, we discuss the upcoming re-release of their 'Beautiful Series', we talk all things smut, its place in our day and age (hint, it's still incredible and weall love it), and where the unsexiest place is in an office for... Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both

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Smut and Representations of Sex in Rom Com Novels

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/05/07

Amy & series regulars, Payton Hogan and Justina Ashman, are joined by (soon-to-be) Dr. Georgia Nicholls to discuss sex in the rom com novel, where we ask questions like: What is smut? Does smut offer positive sex education? Are male modes of sexual pleasure being privileged in the rom com novel? Andwhy are romance heroes so Big and heroines so smol?! LINKS Find Aya de Léon here: ayadeleon.com Watch the Live Bookclub on YouTube:@AmyAndPodcast Follow the Amy & Podcast on

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51:07

Fantasy Smut and Guys with Big Wingspans

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/05/01

It’s officially smut month! Amy and series regulars Millie Heffernan and Abby Guy are joined by our special guestie Izzie Duffield (who also writes as Elizabeth Stevens as well as many other names). Come with us as we dive into fantasy smut! What is smut in romance and what happens when you add guys with huge wingspans into the mix? Find Izzie’s work here. Our theme music is by Mass Wisteria. Stream their single “Same Old” here. Follow the Amy & Podcast on

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50:05

Get in, Loser. We're Imagining a Better Future.

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/04/09

Amy& Payton talk with special guesties Dr Alex Cothren and Dr Rachel Hennessy about climate-fiction writing and scholarship – but we’re fun nerds, I promise. You can find Alex’s satirical short stories in basically any literary mag you could possibly think of, and by August 2025, his debut anthology Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere will be published by Pink Shorts Press. Rachel Hennessy is an award-winning author of five novelsand her most recent, City Knife, concluded her

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Intro to Climate Fiction & Pining for a Better World

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/04/02

Amy & season regulars, Payton and Millie, are joined by special guestie Melanie Ross to talk climate fiction. Listen in as we talk climate disasters, the subtlety of cli-fi, and the potential of a forest's imagination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:17

BOOKCLUB: Pride and Prejudice

Amy & Book Club ·

2025/03/28

Amy & the podcast team sit down for our very first live bookclub where we chat, with earl grey cocktails (and tea) in hand, about all things Pride and Prejudice. From Mr. Darcy's exorbitant Pemberley and the reality of where this generational wealth comes from, the misjudgement of Lydia Bennet, and what Mr. Collins' hinge profile would look like, no topic of conversation is off limits. LINKS Watch the Live Bookclub on YouTube: @AmyAndPodcast Follow the Amy & Podcast on IG:@amyandpodcast

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