Hello everyone! Stephanie and Liz are back with a new episode of Dick of the Week! This time we discussed the utterly confusing scale of heat levels for romance novels. No heat, sweet, “clean”, low heat, medium heat, high heat, spicy, steamy, erotic- what does it all mean?! We… apparently still have no idea andRead More

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Episode 57: Heat Levels and Banging Books

Dick of the Week episode 56 is all about social media! Whether you’re a reader or a writer, (or both!) social media plays a rather large role in finding, selling, and talking about romance novels. Social media, regardless of your age, tends to inform you of certain trends and popular books or authors. Tiktok isRead More

Episode 56: Social Media for Romancelandia

WE’RE BACK BABY! Seriously. We are sorry. We didn’t mean to be gone so long. Stephanie ended up sick and then her fam got sick (not covid, whew!) and Liz went camping and then to the beach and just… life went weird. But during that time, the internet exploded with news of blue aliens. ThatRead More

Episode 55: Big Blue Ridged Alien D!cks

Hello lovers and listeners! Occasionally, we will have special “book club” type episodes called “DOTW Reads a Book.” This is one of those episodes! In this episode of Dick of the Week, Stephanie and Liz discuss (re gush) all about the historical romance novel “The Prince of Broadway” by Joanne Shupe. While this is theRead More

Ep 54: DOTW Reads a Book- Prince of Broadway

Hello friends and lovers! Stephanie and Liz are back with another episode of Dick of the Week. This week we discussed the 2020 documentary “Naughty Books” directed by Austen Rachlis. It is currently available on Hulu if you want to watch it, also. This documentary follows three successful high heat/erotic romance indie authors. It notRead More

Episode 53: Naughty Books

Stephanie and Liz are back with another episode of Dick of the Week. This week we decided to do something a little different. We picked an author we love and have read all of her books and decided to do a deep dive into them. We picked Meika Usher, a very funny contemporary romance author.Read More

Episode 52: Author Spotlight- Meika Usher

Liz and Stephanie discuss the beloved Julia Quinn series Bridgerton which is now a hit Netflix TV show.

Episode 51: I Burn For You

On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz is joined by romance writer and freelance editor, Joanne Machin. Together they spend the first half of the show discussing books they’ve read and loved recently and some recent romancelandia DRAMA. They spend the rest of the episode discussing a Christmas romance novel they both read,Read More

Episode 50: Let’s Read a Christmas Romance!

On this episode of Dick of the Week, we discuss the new Hulu Christmas lesbian romantic comedy, Happiest Season. Liz has a special guest host, the lovely NYC comedian Hattie Hayes (find her on twitter here). This episode includes many spoilers for this movie so if you haven’t watched yet and care about spoilers, pleaseRead More

Episode 49: Happiest Season

On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz has a very special guest Morgan Spatola. She is also a podcaster and writer. Together they discuss how National Novel Writing Month is going during the never ending year of 2020. They discuss how this experience is different than 2019, what they need to have aRead More

Episode 48: Vampires, Power Dynamics, & NaNoWriMo 2020

Dick of the Week episode 47: Highway To Heck Part 2 Hello friends and lovers! This week Stephanie and Liz continue on the amazing journey that is Chuck Tingle’s choose your own timeline adventure, Highway to Heck! Once again we are joined by special guest, Jordan to help us find our way through the Tingleverse.Read More

DotW: Highway To Heck Part 2

Hello friends and lovers! On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz and Stephanie have a very special guest with us, Jordan Keesee. Jordan is an Improv Comedian and more importantly, Stephanie’s husband. We decided to try another choose your own adventure style book. This time it is Highway To Heck: A Select YourRead More

DotW: Highway To Heck Part 1

Dick of the Week Episode 45.5–Dickin’ Around With Liz: Romance for All Hello everyone! In this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz is flying solo, so you know what that means! Time for everyone’s favorite mini dick, Dickin’ Around With Liz! In this episode Liz answers some questions that listeners and fellow podcasters sentRead More

DotW: Dickin’ Around With Liz: Romance For All

Episode 45: Fictional Reality (TV) This week, Liz and Stephanie talk about one of their favorite, mindless pastimes: romance reality TV! Whether it is The Bachelor, Love is Blind, 90 Day Fiance, or The Single Wives, reality TV to find love is EVERYWHERE. What is it about this genre of show attracts us, and manyRead More

Dotw: Fictional Reality (TV)

Dick of the Week Episode 44, Wonderful Women Liz and Stephanie realized in all the times we have discussed what we like in a male hero, we have never discussed what we love about the women main characters. So, we asked fellow writer friends what issues they’ve had with female leads they’ve loved with reader’sRead More

DotW: Wonderful Women

Join Stephanie, The Duchess, and Liz as they chat about all of their favorite, and not so favorite, aspects of the Romance genre.

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