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! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms

Heaving Bosoms: A Romance Novel Podcast

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

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!   

Ep. 209 - 4th Podiversary!

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, alcoholic mango chunks, Mel's drunk, rent parties, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Art Sculptures of the rural 1920s, "catch my farts," and so much more.  Lady Loves:  Mel: Bedside chocolate. What a lovely surprise! And using frozen mango chunks as ice cubes in cocktails. Yum! Erin: The Scream franchise! They're 1/3 slasher film, 1/3 satire, and 1/3 straight up comedy.  Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Patreon Shout Out:  Susan R you are descended from Kanaloa, a Hawaiian god known for being the spiritual leader of the underworld, a mysterious healer, and teacher of magic, who would most often take the form of an octopus, or he’e. Growing up, Kanaloa was my third favorite Hawaiian god behind Pele and Hi’iaka. And he might be the origin of my love for octopodes. In myths he is powerful, yet flexible, and can get out of any scrape he finds himself in. He’s the deity Hawaiians called on when wayfinding because he’s the navigator. He’s the subtle compliment to Hawaii’s chief god Kane. Don’t believe the haoles who say that Kanaloa is evil, or Hawaii’s devil. That’s some judeo-christian projection that happened after missionaries colonized the islands and started bastardizing their culture. He’s flexible, intelligent, and multifaceted, just like you.

Ep. 208 - Love's Serenade by Sheryl Lister

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 Netflix rom-com He's All That, a gender bent remake of 90's treasure She's All That. Come play with us! Bonus Content:  Matthew Lillard is a national treasure, wax play Jenny doesn't approve of, The Matrix vs. Big Hero Six, Mel's special "party backbend," Mel flexes her horse girl cred yet again, we image horse car washes, bestiality loopholes for centaur romances, and nutella. It's a ride!  Lady Loves:  Mel: Amazon's new musical Cinderella with Billy Porter. It's so delicious even while being extremely cringey.  Erin: Drive Me Crazy, the far superior gender-bent remake of She's All That with Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier's floppy curls. ALSO, it's spooky season! Enjoy being a pumpkinslut without shame!  Jenny: the podcast "I Will Teach You to Be Rich" with Ramit Sethi. It's real life couples talking about real life money issues, filled with specifics and marriage counseling.  Follow Jenny on Instagram and Twitter!  Check out Mel and Jenny's new podcast BONKERS ROMANCE!! You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. And follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Patreon Shout Out: Marissa H, you are descended from Baldur, the Norse god known for his beauty, wisdom, and fairness. He was the god of joy, the summer sun, purity, and light. It’s said he was so charming and beautiful that he was literally radiant, giving off light. You have gotten so many of his traits, but wisdom and fairness are chief among them. Your purity of soul and efforts to help those you love make you radiate love from the inside. 

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

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! 

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

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: *Bing Boong Bong* FBI Times with Erin, federal manicurists, the magic of William Shatner's announcer voice, and the generation of young women who learned the SING method of self defense from this movie!  Lady Loves:  Alexis: Fable Bands. Headbands based on books!  Erin: Get your eyes checked (or whatever you're putting off). Do it!  Melody: Embrace whoever you need to be in this moment. Need to spend 3 days and emailing and calling school administrators and the entire school board to get a COVID safety plan published? Pull your hair back and get to it. You'll only find yourself *slightly* unrecognizable.  Make sure to follow Alexis Daria! Instagram | Twitter Check out Mel's new podcast BONKERS ROMANCE!! You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. And follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosom

Ep. 206 - Miss Congeniality with Alexis Daria

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 sabotaging his company. They get hot and heavy, but she has secrets that could ruin their sizzling connection.  Bonus Content: we haz Tik Tok? NOPE! scintillating observatory stories, and so much more!  Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosom

Ep. 205 - Taking on the Billionaire by Robin Covington

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 to find out why her family disappeared and was never heard from again, but when Naledi mistakes him for just a regular guy, Thabiso embarks on an elaborate plot in the name of getting to know her better.  If you want to listen to part 2 head to Ep. 52 in our back catalogue. And Melody also recapped Can't Escape Love with Sara Whitney in episode 80! Bonus Content: Ember says goddamnit in front of his grandmother! We geek out over getting a DM response from THE ALYSSA COLE, Erin stumbles into the phrase "oiled up toddlers" (YEESH), Erin's tale of quitting dramatically, we swoon over the idea of experimenting with the tensile pressure of a beard on thighs, Melody waxes poetic about her Sex Ed Boner, Self-Assurance Boner, and Competency Boner. Erin worries about garlic, sleepy kisses. Melody expounds on the merits of a hot guy with a matriarchal religion. And Melody and Erin talk about the first "I love you's" they heard from their beaus. This is a doozy!  Lady Loves:  Melody: making friends as an adult is hard. So, if you meet someone you think you might connect with, do your best to push past the first few awkward pauses and see if there's something there! Melody met a woman who might turn out to be a great friend, but she wanted to take the escape hatch at every pause in their first conversation.  Erin: READ THIS BOOK. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

Ep. 204 - A Princess In Theory by Alyssa Cole (PART 1) Rerelease

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:  Check out Kim's newest release, audio schmorgasbord All the Queens Men, a fantasy reverse harem with 7 narrators! Also available on KU! Plus, imposter syndrome, drooling over Shane East's voice, and so much more! Lady Loves:  Kim: Do what you need. She's taking a staycation because she's able and because she needs alone time to recharge. So, the fam stays home and she goes to a hotel to soak in the tub and write and get recentered!  Mel: Updos! Have you not washed your hair in 3 days? Well, grab some bobbypins and make it fancy!  Check Out Kim Loraine on the interwebs! She's on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, too!  Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

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

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 criminally voyeuristic innkeeper. Look, when we come up with ideas, they're just GOLD.  Lady Loves:  Melody: I got a NEW BRA!  Erin: Find the corner of tiktok where you get thirst videos of old-timey men. Maybe try #paulnewman or #marlonbrando and teach the algorithm to treat you right.  Episode sponsor: Sierra Simone's SAINT, the third full-length standalone in the PRIEST universe. It comes out on 9/7/2021. She promises more angst, more red hot sex, and more elevating the profane to the sacred than ever before! And if you're a Heaving Bosoms patron at the $10 tier and up, you get a free advance copy!  Check out The Rosecast! It's one of Melody's favorite podcasts recapping the Bachelor franchise. These long-distance best friends give me big HB vibes, if you replace our raunchy shenanigans with two sports-loving, good dudes.  Patreon Shout Out:  Andi M., you are descended from Lilith, one of the most ancient mystical figures in Judeo-Christian lore. She’s now known as the dark moon goddess in astrology and is associated with uncontrollable feminine vitality. Andi, you’re respected and revered in part because Lilith has always been so feared by the patriarchy. Anyone that ancient men deem demonic, I see as a badass of antiquity who had to be vilified lest she overpower them. So, you continue owning your sexuality, relying on the prudence and wisdom of your intuition, and being courageous in your demands of the world. That’s all Lilith asks.  Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

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

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. Lady Loves:  Melody: The strawberries and blueberries I'm currently eating!  Erin: Gah..... it's hard over here. Sometimes there isn't a lady love. Episode Sponsor: Penelope's Paths by Isabelle Peterson Patreon Shout Out: Robin J, you are descended from Fauna, the roman goddess of woodlands, fields, flocks, and... fertility, which makes me think there’s some freak in there, too. Fauna was goddess to all creatures on earth, and if you’ve watched Netflix’s Absurd Planet documentary, you’ll know that’s both awe-inspiring, and truly, hilariously entertaining. Many forget, however, that she was also the goddess of prophecy, and that wisdom has served you and your loved ones well. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

Ep. 201 - The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

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 Overdue here.  Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

Ep. 200 - Moonglow by Kristen Callihan with Overdue!

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, HB's first Admiration Boner, and England Times Lanyards, to name a few. Lady Loves:  Erin: Cats. They’re for petting and loving and companionship and laughing at them when they try and catch a laser pointer. They’re not for murder. Melody: bonkers books in general. Get your romance friends together and rec some bonkerstown bananas books to each other. They feed the soul! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook Patreon Shout Out: Chantelle T, you can trace your lineage back to Dionysis. While most people only know about him being the god of wine, which is pretty great on it’s own with all the revelry and whatnot, we’ve recently learned there’s so much more. For one thing, Dionysis was associated with rebirth, with grape vines needing to be pruned back dramatically and going dormant in the winter in order to bear fruit again. That’s one reason you’re so good at pivoting when something doesn’t work out. Plus, I don’t know if you knew this, but Dionysis invented dolphins. I know, it shocked me, too. So, you’ve got some unexpected tricks up your sleeve even now.

Ep. 199 - Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

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, manifesting hot Australians, Andie's Formula One MMF novella in the works, and so much more.  Lady Loves:  Andie: Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Basically a soap opera staring hot formula 1 drivers and it will be good to you! Mel: The new She-Ra cartoon on Netflix! It's also for adults, it's a big empower, and there's lots of homoerotic energy! You need it! Follow Andie! Instagram | Twitter | TikTok Episode Sponsor:  The Queen of Second Chances by DM Barr. It's a sweet romcom about a woman working in a senior center and the overprotective attorney she wins over. Check it out ASAP!! Indie Pod Promo:  A Little Bit Grim! Patreon Shout Out:  Cassidy L, you are descended from Hemera, the Greek primordial goddess of day. She has divine authority and control over fire, and can control the movement and rotation of the planets. Which means she can change the flow of day into night. So, you’re basically a flamethrowing superperson who’s capable of circadian manipulation. Plus, you’re goddamned bright in every single way. Sunshine personified.

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

Hey y'all! It's Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen part 2! Plus, Bat Cave musings, requests for super hero romances, pool floaty fart sounds, and so much more!  Lady Loves:  Erin: boy this low-sulfite hard cider is yummy! Melody: Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver. It's a comfort listen and all the long vowel sounds are great for toddler singers. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

Ep. 197 - Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen (PART 2)

Best friends and romance lovers, Erin and Melody, recap romance novels from a comedic, open-hearted feminist, sex-positive perspective! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound! We take ourselves VERY seriously.

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Heaving Bosoms: A Romance Novel Podcast

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