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Sep 25
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#19: From Forensics to Dark Romance: Bry...

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This week on Off The Shelf, Morgann sits down with Brynne Weaver, the dark romance powerhouse behind Butcher & Blackbird and the upcoming Tourist Season. From neuroscience labs to bestselling novels, Brynne’s journey is anything but ordinary. The two get into how TikTok helped write Butcher & Blackbird and where production is at on the adaptation. Then Brynne shares how Tourist Season came to be, the hardest parts, and what’s next in the series! 


CHAPTERS: 


0:00 Introduction 

1:08 Brynne and Hot Peppers 

3:27 Archeaology to Neuroscience to Author

6:59 How Butcher and Blackbird was born

8:31 Sloane and Rowan

11:16 The Power of #BookTok

14:35 Olivia Rodrigo x Butcher & Blackbird

16:14 Most memorable author moments

18:53 “Romance isn’t a real genre”

19:45 Body Farms… and other book research

21:51 Everything we know about the adaptation of Butcher & Blackbird

29:45 Welcome to Tourist Season

31:48 Tourist season playlist

32:54 Hardest part of writing Tourist Season 

35:15 Alzheimer's research from Brynne’s past career

39:47 Tourist Season vs. B&B

41:00 Brynne’s favourite dark romance books

42:50 Hobbies outside of writing

43:17 Tourist Season acknowledgments 

47:22 Brynne’s top 3 tourist spots

48:37 Where is Brynne going on tour?



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Brynne Weaver

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Find her books at Indigo: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/brynne-weaver/ 

Find her books at Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tourist-season-brynne-weaver/1147291861 


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Hosted by: Morgann Book

Created by: Bookish Media, Morgann Book, and Thomas Johnston 

Executive Producers: Morgann Book & Thomas Johnston 

Produced by: Stefanie Macchiusi

Edited by: Ricki Biramontes



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