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Jan 2023
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S3 Ep2: Spicy Books and Representation

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About this episode
Anyone else on 🌶spicy🌶 book tok or is it just Lauren? A good romance book written by a woman just hits different, but it can be really hard to find the right one (almost as hard as reading one in public🤣)!! So in this episode, Lauren’s telling us what we should look, which books to start with, and where we can find books with good fat rep. But will it be enough to convince Laura to try one out?! Plus, one of our favourite authors, Bethany Rutter, joins us to chat about the importance of representation, what it’s like in the publishing industry, and what it’s like writing spicy scenes…

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