Not Now, I'm Reading

It feels like we have been waiting for the entire year for this episode, but only because Lucy Parker is a forever favorite here at House NNIR, and she beyond knocked it out of the park with the Slytherpuff family-secrets-and-reputations contemporary romance, The Austen Playbook, the fourth book in her London Celebrities series. Join us as we talk (spoiler- free) all the things we loved about this book, all the ways Lucy can do no wrong, and the myriad of Game of Thrones ships Kay can rec that Chelsea will nope out of like her life depended on it! TIME STAMPS: 00:00 - 26:49 - Intro and Current Reads 26:49 - 45:00 – Discussion of The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker 45:00 - 47:17 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We know y'all know just how excited we've been to talk about this book, and today is finally the day! We sat down to talk all about American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera, an absolute bombshell of a debut novel that will leave you in a puddle of emotions and starving for Afro-Caribbean food.  TIME STAMPS: 00:00 – 24:22 – Intro & Current Reads 24:22 – 41:22 – Discussion of American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera 41:22 – 44:09 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes  

We're back, friends, and so beyond thrilled this week to be talking about our first ever adult fantasy book, The True Queen, as the tentpole book of the podcast. Bear with us as we take several tangents this week (Grey's Anatomy! The TOR library embargo! Which Gilmore Girls boyfriend is actually the worst?!) all while gushing about just how much we loved this follow-up novel to Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown. TIME STAMPS: 00:00 – 23:16 – Intro & Current Reads 23:16 – 43:55 – Discussion of The True Queen by Zen Cho 43:55 – 48:53 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Forgive us, friends, but we're mixing things up again! We'll be back in a few weeks with our discussion of The True Queen by Zen Cho (as promised!) but until then, strap in for a whole heaping dose of feelings about hockey, Pittsburgh, and the genre-defying power of transformative work. We're so thrilled to finally be reading a novel-length fic as the focus of our episode, and couldn't think of a better one to start with than "And Never Been Kissed" by the hoyden and twentysomething!  TIME STAMPS: 00:00 - 03:01 – Intro & Updates 03:01 - 24:31 – Hockey Fic Recs 24:31 - 46:41 – "And Never Been Kissed" by thehoyden and twentysomething 46:41 - 50:24 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Y'all, we are back this week with a book that was just the biggest of warm, magical hugs. We so adored A Sprinkle of Spirits, the second book in Anna Meriano's absolutely delicious Love, Sugar, Magic series, and we tried our best to be gushing adoration while being sparing in our spoilers! So tune in to hear all about our love for witch books, our differing opinions on ghost stories, and a surprising number of Law and Order: SVU mentions. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-20:24 – Intro & Current Reads 20:24-33:52 – A Sprinkle of Spirits by Anna Meriano 33:52-38:17 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We are so incredibly glad to be back, friends! As always, we loved having a little bit of R&R during our holiday break, but we missed all your faces dearly :) Today we're back with a vengeance, coming at you with ten media recs a piece before we launch in to our discussion of the amazing, incandescent, totally delicious Alyssa Cole novella Once Ghosted, Twice Shy. Stick around until the end for some important Patreon updates as well as to find out what we're reading over the next few weeks! TIME STAMPS: 00:00-49:53 – Intro & Current Reads 49:453-1:02:53 – Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole 1:02:53-1:08:10 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes For more information, see the About the Show page, and to get in touch with us at all our various internet hangouts, check the About the Hosts page. If you’d like to support us on Patreon, you can do that here.

It's Monday, which means it's our third week in our huge December Guestravaganza and it's time to talk about one of our absolute favorite tropes of all time - found families! We sat down with long-time friend of the pod, Di (who you can also find over at AO3 as kerrykhat), to just kind of chat our way through some of our favorite found family media properties and what it is we love so much about this genre-spanning trope! TIME STAMPS: 00:00-27:50– Intro & Current Reads 27:50-47:18 – Found Families Discussion 47:18-49:41 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We're back for our second week in a row of our December Gueststravaganza and we both want to say, this one feels like it has been a long time coming! We've long raved about how much we love the Reading the End podcast, and the two inestimable Jennys who host it. It was our pleasure to sit down with Gin Jenny to discuss all things Captain America, a truly great combination! So buckle up, friends, for a longer episode in which we revel in our Steve Rogers feelings (and attempt to extract them from our Chris Evans feelings), discuss the tagging systems all major publishers would adopt, and remember that, surprising no one, Chelsea was Team Tony well before she was Team Cap. As a last note, friends, we want to thank you guys for bearing with us as we catch up on transcripts. Between Work, Life, and Technology, we got a bit behind but we promise, we'll be caught up soon!  TIME STAMPS: 00:00-24:17– Intro & Current Reads 24:17-01:20:44 – Captain America discussion & Fic Recs 01:20:44-01:23:19 – Wha

Today we're joined by Zoey Castile (who some of you may know as Zoraida Cordova), author of a fun and steamy contemporary romance, Stripped! This is the last of the interviews where Kay's work life got in the way , so she'll be around for the rest of our December Guest-stravaganza episodes. Thanks so much to Zoey for joining us and of course to the amazing team at Kensington for making this happen! You can check out Zoey/Zoraida around the internet at: her website (and her Zoraida site), on Twitter @ZoeyCastile/@zlikeinzorro, and Instagram @ZoeyCastile/@zoraidasolo. Listen to this week’s episode! TIME STAMPS: 00:00-15:56– Intro & Current Reads 15:56-55:07 – Interview with Zoey Castile 55:07-57:40 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Hello again, friends! Our sincerest apologies for the delay in posting, but November has been...kind of a mess. (You guys understand.) Anyway, today in the fine tradition of thieves everywhere, we are borrowing a wonderful tradition from our friends over at Reading the End: THE FORCENING. We each pick a media property that the other hasn't watched and...force them to watch it. It's pretty much what it says on the tin. We're starting with Kay's pick for Chelsea, the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca. We do get into spoiler territory for both the book AND the movie, so skip it if you need to watch first. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-17:45– Intro & Current Reads 17:45-39:03 – Rebecca discussion 39:03-42:30 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We're back for another awesome author interview, this time with romance writer Roan Parrish! We also talk our current reads, give you a bonus Spooky Month rec, and talk about what we've got coming up next. You can check out Roan around the internet at: their website, their Twitter @roanparrish, and their Facebook Page. Due to scheduling fun, the transcript will be going up tomorrow, so stay tuned for links! TIME STAMPS: 00:00-13:33– Intro & Current Reads 13:33-52:48 – Interview with Roan Parrish 52:348-58:15 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We love fall, we love spooky month, we are some pumpkin spice loving hags and we're here to share some of our favorite autumnal things with all of you! TIME STAMPS: 00:00-01:03– Intro 01:03-24:09 – Current Reads 24:09-52:02 – Fall Recs 52:02-54:34 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Hello, friends, and welcome to another fabulous author interview episode! First things first: YOU CAN GO GET COUNTERPOINT AS WE SPEAK! Because Chelsea isn't great about holding details in her head, she says several times that the book comes out tomorrow, but luckily her mistake really just means you don't hate to wait at all to go pick up this duo of amazing rockstar romances! Otherwise, stay tuned for the first threads of hockey feelings, Anna's romantic suspense recommendations, and Kay's delightful tolerance of Chelsea's completely wandering attention.  AnnaZabo.com. They're on twitter as @amergina. They have a Facebook Page and a Reader’s Group. They also have a Tumblr, but it’s mostly reblogs of Tom Hiddleston.   TIME STAMPS: 00:00-10:36– Intro & Current Reads 10:36-53:33 – Interview with Anna Zabo 53:33-55:01 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

We're back with the second half of our recommenadthon summer reading wrap-up, bringing you guys more book, fic, and podcast recs to fill these slowly lengthening evenings! The first cooler snap of the year has finally hit the Midwest, and if cooler temps have yet to hit where you are, keep hope, they're a'coming! Until then, this episode is full of lady scientists, lady sociopaths, lady podcasters, and more!    TIME STAMPS: 00:00-00:56– Intro 00:56-52:03 – Summer Reading Catchup, Part Two 52:03-52:46 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Welcome back, pals, for an episode we've sort of done before, but not really! To part the curtain a little bit on the podcast magic - sometimes we record ahead of schedule, so much so that when we don't record for a bit, the reading recs can stack up. Which is where we're at now! So, instead of talking about one shared thing, we're bring you a TWO-PART, JAM-PACKED, ULTRA-REC extravaganza we're calling 'What We Read This Summer'. Part one is today, and we'll each be recommending ten things, and then in a few weeks we'll be back to recommend you ten more things. Each. That's right. Get your TBRs ready!   TIME STAMPS: 00:00-02:14– Intro 02:14-58:22 – Summer Reading Catchup 58:22-1:00:12 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Thanks again to all of our wonderful patrons, we have a bonus episode featuring your chosen topic: fake dating! We want to apologize that we won't have the full transcript concurrent with the audio going live. IRL scheduling difficulties meant Kay didn't have a chance to finish everything up before she had to fly to the wilds of northern Idaho for family related shenanigans. We'll have the transcript up as soon as possible when she's back home. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-1:44 – Intro 1:44-16:53 – Current Reads 16:53-45:41 – Fake Dating Recs 45:41-47:37 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Welcome back, friends! This week we're discussing the phenomenal new standalone fantasy novel Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. We're also talking about our current reads (and Chelsea judges Kay hard for another nOTP rec) and what we've got coming up next. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-01:06 – Intro 01:06-24:28 – Current Reads 24:28-39:40 – Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 39:40-43:15 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes    

We're back this week with a fantastic contemporary romance from one of our forever faves, Alyssa Cole! A Duke by Default releases tomorrow, so be sure to pre-order and get your hands on it as soon as possible. We also talk about our current reads (watch out for Chelsea shrieking in horror at one of Kay's recs, because nOTP) and what we've got coming up next. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-02:01 – Intro 02:01-27:50 – Current Reads 27:50-43:29 – A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole 43:29-44:57 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes

Kay was stuck adulting (cough, day job, cough), but Chelsea recently had the opportunity to sit down with Layla Reyne! They talk about Layla’s latest book, Imperial Stout, the first in her new Trouble Brewing series. The book will be out in e-book on July 23 and in paperback July 31! They also talk all things angsty and romantic suspense, fanfiction, and about great things they’ve been reading lately. You can find Layla at her website, Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram. PS if you notice some awkward transitions while Kay's talking about Temeraire in our 'current reads' segment, it's because Chelsea had to cut out about fifteen minutes of us babbling about various Peter Jackson related things. We're so sorry. There was a lot of hysterical laughter. TIME STAMPS: 00:00-01:54 – Intro 01:54-20:19 – Current Reads 20:19-59:39 – Interview with Layla Reyne  59:39-01:02:14 – What’s Coming Up, Outro, and Outtakes