Dec 2025

LIVE Best of the Year and Final Episode!

Ellen and Mom went live to give out their Best of the Year awards and to reminisce on the podcast for the last time. We sure have loved hanging with you guys for the past 8 years. NoYoMos for life!

1h 7m

Dec 2025

Final Free for All!

Ellen and Mom are joined by all of you to talk about what we have been reading and to reminisce on some good times shared together.Come hang out with us! Twitter/Instagram: @notyourmomsromFacebook Group: Not Your Mom's Facebook GroupEmail: notyourmomsromancebookclub@gmail.comNot ... Show More

1h 37m

Nov 2025

Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane

Ellen and Mom discuss the insecurities, investigations, and iPads in Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane. Plus, the end is nigh. Come hang out with us! Twitter/Instagram: @notyourmomsrom Facebook Group: Not Your Mom's Facebook Group Email: notyourmomsrom ... Show More

1h 31m

May 2021

Join our Book Club!

This week the moms talk about books. Their favorite authors, recent reads, preferred genres, and why Kelly hates reading but has only ever read Fifty Shades of Grey. It's almost like you're in a book club with the moms!This episode is sponsored by:MathnasiumPublic Goods (promo co ... Show More

56m 20s

Dec 2021

Book Club: DubCon

For this book club, we dig into issues around consent and rape culture and how fanfiction can be a tool of cultural activism with Milena Popova's work DubCon: Fanfiction, Power and Sexual Consent. Through tropes like the Omegaverse, arranged marriage and Real Person Fiction, a ... Show More

58m 20s

Dec 2024

Susan Rieger and Surviving Your Mother

We know we want to talk to an author if we argue long and lustily about a book’s themes. And Like Mother, Like Mother, the newest by Susan Rieger, has so many themes: how we cannot escape our mothers, the concept of whether women can “have it all”, the debate on nature vs. nurtur ... Show More

39m 36s

Jun 2025

Book Club Meets: Ambitious women and generational trauma, with Emily Henry

Two writers are competing for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a famous reclusive heiress. One of them is going to uncover the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th century. The thing is, heiress Margaret is giving each writer different tant ... Show More

30m 55s

Sep 2023

Interview with Diana Quincy!

This week I chat with romance author Diana Quincy about her newest novel The Duke Gets Desperate. Please Rate, Review and Follow on Apple Podcasts. It helps the podcast grow. MERCH! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes Pa ... Show More

1h 1m

Jan 2024

Darling But Dangerous

Jess and Trisha kick off 2024 WIR Book Club by discussing The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich and then discuss other books with mistaken identities or disguises. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more romance recs and news, sign up for o ... Show More

1h 1m

Dec 2022

healing mothers & daughters: podmas #2

on the second day of podmas sephy and wing gave to me... rants about their childhoods that i didn't ask for. join the conversation every monday. shop our merch: sephyandwing.co.uk come and chat in our book club. speak your mind on the @s ... Show More

29m 50s

Apr 2023

parasocial relationships & content creation: *validation dupe!*

babe what's wrong you've barely touched your soul-destroying social media feeds? join the conversation every monday. shop our merch: sephyandwing.co.uk come and chat in our book club. speak your mind on the @sephyandwing instagram.<b ... Show More

46m 58s

Jun 2021

SMNTY Book Club: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

In honor of Pride Month, we discuss Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and dig into themes of sexual identity, gender norms and dysfunctional family dynamics. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodca ... Show More

52m 5s

Oct 2018

Friendly and Smiley and Handing Out Coffee

Jess and Trisha take a deep dive into Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin for the When In Romance book club, talk about how and why romance authors are writing employer/employee romance, and suggest a cool way you can support your local romance booksellers. Join the book club convers ... Show More

1h 1m

The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. Ge...