Guest: Rudi and Gabby | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 21/12/2020 Sydney This conversation was recorded at the end of 2020. I’ve been so slack about releasing the episode that Rudi has been distributing bootleg copies

BT bloggers: The glory days

Apr 14th, 2020 52m 51s

Guests: Gabbyand Rudi | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 27/01/2020 Sydney It's been a year since Gabby, Rudi and I recorded an episode where we were all in the same room. But we managed to sneak in a couple of hours, wh

Anna Cowan: Break the taboo

Mar 29th, 2020 47m 15s

Guest: Anna Cowan| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 25/01/2020 Sydney Australian author Anna Cowan's debut novel, Untamed, caused quite a stir and remains a keeper on my shelf. It's a beautifully written romance that exp

BT bloggers: Understanding the chemistry

Mar 15th, 2020 1h 7m

Guests: Rudi Bremer and Gabby | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 20/22/2019 Sydney The Book Thingo podcast comes out of accidental hiatus (blame Kat!) with an episode dedicated (mostly) to The Lady's Guide to Celestial M

Podversary 4: Petty and holding grudges

Nov 17th, 2019 30m 48s

Guests: Gabbyand Rudi| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 7/09/2019 Sydney We turned 4 in August (hurrah!), so of course we're bringing you our anniversary special in November. Because that's how we (ie Kat) roll. As usual

Sophie Ly: Romancing her with some spaghetti

Nov 3rd, 2019 44m 34s

Guests: Sophie Ly and Rudi Bremer | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 9/06/2019 Sydney I've been sitting on this episode for a little while, but hold on to your one-click buttons because Sophie Ly joins Rudi and me with a

BT bloggers: Bookish betrayals

Aug 5th, 2019 54m 49s

Guests: Rudi Bremer and Gabby| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 9/02/2019 Sydney The Book Thingo bloggers decided to knock one book off our TBR piles. Spoiler alert: only one of us actually did the work, and you get no p

Aislinn Kearns: Stay away from the beans

Jul 21st, 2019 28m 36s

Guest: Aislinn Kearns| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 19/08/2018 RWA What happens when you combine a love of 80s action films with romance genre tropes? You get Ainslinn Kearns's books! Rudi and I caught up with Aislin

#RomBkLove: Rebellious readers

May 27th, 2019 43m 9s

Guests: Rudi and Gabby| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 23/05/2019 Sydney #RomBkLove, the brainchild of the amazing Ana Coqui, is a month-long celebration of romance books, authors and readers. Book Thingo is excited to

Melanie Milburne: I've always felt the tension

Mar 26th, 2019 24m 36s

Guest: Melanie Milburne| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 18/08/2018 RWAus When I heard Melanie Milburne's keynote at the 2018 Australian Romance Readers' Award, I knew we had to have her on the show. Her speech as a pow

BT bloggers: Love languages

Feb 14th, 2019 54m 38s

Guests: Gabbyand Rudi | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 18/01/2019 Sydney To celebrate Valentine's Day, the BT bloggers are back on the podcast to talk about love languages. To find your own love language, you can take

Amy Andrews: An issue of interior design

Feb 2nd, 2019 22m 17s

Guest: Amy Andrews| Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 18/08/2018 Following on from the theme set by Kate's 2018 RWA conference keynote, which we talked about on our previous episode, I chat with Amy Andrews on where she

Kate Cuthbert and Jodi McAlister: Deliberate choices

Jan 15th, 2019 37m 5s

Kate and Jodi talk about Kate's game-changing keynote, Consenting adults, at the 2018 Romance Writers of Australian conference, what happy endings look like in different cultures, condoms in romance, power politics, and cultural conversations.

BT bloggers: It's gonna be raw

Jan 1st, 2019 51m 45s

What better way to celebrate the new year than with our (super very) belated podcast anniversary episode! *cue applause* We talk about Lisa Valdez's books, whether you can have a multi-book romance, our urban fantasy faves, and Gabby's love f

Anne Trinidad: Larry Stylinson

Dec 18th, 2018 28m 31s

After our involuntary podcasting hiatus, we're back with a vengeance. Gabby has taken over the podcast, because in this episode we talk about a topic I know nothing about -- One Direction fandom. Specifically: Larry Stylinson. We also talk abo

Readers: I can't be tamed

Jul 25th, 2018 1h 10m

Romance readers read aloud from some of their favourite books. Plus, Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about politics in romance, debate the merits of Passion, and generally meander through random topics. Shownotes: http://bookthingo.com.au/podcast F

Jennifer Hallock: Unfamiliar surroundings

Jul 14th, 2018 42m 19s

Author Jennifer Hallock explains her IASPR paper on chronotopes in historical romance, and why our familiarity with Regency romance might be hindering us from appreciating romances set in other historical settings. We talk about the additional

All about romance lists

Jun 29th, 2018 53m 48s

Book Thingo blogger Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about the All About Romance Top 100 Romances list. Used by many readers for author discovery, this year's list has generated a lot of discussion particularly around diversity. We mention books and a

Carla de Guzman: The tita generation

Jun 21st, 2018 25m 31s

Carla de Guzman talks about her books, including her upcoming release for #romanceclassFLAIR, plus-size heroines, travelling, living the tita life, food in fiction, and musicals. We also have a very intresting discussion about romance authors

#rombklove: Gateway books

May 23rd, 2018 49m 11s

Rudi, Gabby and I talk about books the that introduced us to the romance genre, books that made us fall in love with the genre, and books that we recommend to people who might not read romance but maybe might want to try it. If we missed anyth

Nalini Singh: Tentacle skin privileges

May 12th, 2018 37m 32s

Nalini Singh talks about her hugely successful Psy-Changeling books, and gives us a sneak peek into what she's writing next

Kate Cuthbert: Spicy vocabulary

Apr 24th, 2018 34m 6s

Managing editor Kate Cuthbert talks about her reputation for dropping dirty words at literary panels (and why she loves the C-word), why we rarely see politics in romance fiction, how much luck plays in a book's success, and rom coms as the ne

Sarah: You should be getting loose

Apr 10th, 2018 49m 29s

Long-time friend of the podcast Sarah joins Rudi and Kat to talk about non-traditional romances. What's the appeal of sexy times with multiple partners? What makes for a satisfying threesome HEA? And why is there always that guy who makes sand

Jothee Tan: Lots of firsts

Mar 30th, 2018 16m 56s

Romance reader Jothee Belikov talks about going to a strip show in Sydney, being part of the #romanceclass community, and how Twilight opened up the world of reading for her. Shownotes: http://bookthingo.com.au/podcast Feedback: podcast@bookth

Vanja Joannidis: I see myself in those stories

Feb 25th, 2018 38m 55s

Romance reader and Book Thingo blogger Vanja Joannidis talks about why she wants strong heroines in romance, her thoughts on Fifty Shades (in which she coins the charming term 'ghost loads'), happy endings as empowering fiction, and her search