I am delighted to welcome Amy Matthews to the podcast, who is not only an award-winning author but also an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Flinders University. Long story short? This woman knows (and loves) talking romance. Under her many pen names she's written titles such as 'Someone Else's Bucket List', 'Best, First and Last', 'The McBrides of Montana' series and the 'Frontiers of The Heart' series.

In this episode we discuss the evolution of Amy's career from literary fiction to becoming a prolific romance writer, the process of crafting compelling romantic stories, and the joy of immersing ourselves in research.

I just finished her latest novel 'Best, First and Last' and I highly recommend you get around it. Having said that, there are no book spoilers until around 30 minutes into the episode so you're all good to just dive in to hear a great chat between two romance lovers.

Love you, more than a friend x

LINKS:

• You can learn more about Amy's work here and follow her on socials here
• Follow me on tikok and instagram

• Follow the podcast on instagram
• Order my debut novel Love on the Air

Come for the Miranda Priestly chat...stay for the deep heart to heart about how it feels to be a woman in the workplace who is JUST TRYING HER BEST!

Broadcaster Steph Monks joins me this week! This episode was kinda like therapy for both of us (which is always a good thing!) In it we discuss:

• Our surprising levels of empathy towards Miranda Priestley
• How Adrian Grenier isn't really as much of the villain is we originally thought
• Our own experiences of finding, harnessing and sometimes being scared of power in the workplace.

You'll also notice a bonus episode which I've uploaded this week about Steph and my experiences of returning to our careers post-motherhood. I figured that given this is a romance podcast and not a parenting podcast, I'd make it available separately to those who wanted it!

Love you, more than a friend x

• LINKS:
• Follow Steph on instagram
• Follow me on tikok and instagram

• Follow the podcast on instagram
• Order my debut novel Love on the Air

Before we actually got to our 'Devil Wears Prada' deep dive, Steph and I found ourselves deep in a 15 minute discussion about Steph's return to work when her son Rocco was just three months old. What followed was, what I believe is an important discussion around this impossible juggle. The constant push and pull of guilt and grief.

While not exactly very 'romantic' I still feel like a lot of you will relate to the chat, so I wanted to included it anyway.

You're doing great x