You might have seen some of the news this week, on the Frolic site, or on Yahoo!Finance or (my favorite) Broadway World, but my podcast, Smart Podcast Trashy Books, and many brilliant others are now part of the Frolic Podcast Network.
Yay!
What’s that mean? Basically, it’s a network of really terrific podcasts and podcasters who produce episodes devoted to romance, pop culture, and other romance-related topics. So if you like what we do, or you like, for example, The Big Gay Fiction Podcast or Learning the Tropes, you’ll find other shows in the Frolic Podcast Network that you’ll probably love just as much.
So far, the network includes:
The Cutaways: Film editors Ashley and Justine as they dissect romantic comedies through the ages.
My Imaginary Friends w/ L Penelope: Award-winning fantasy author L. Penelope shares perspectives on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and the week’s best thing.
Learning The Tropes: Erin Leafe and Clayton Gumber discuss new romance novels every week in this fun celebration of the romance genre.
Jeff & Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast: The Big Gay Fiction Podcast is for avid readers and passionate fans of gay romance fiction. Each week they bring you exclusive author interviews, book recommendations, and explore the latest in gay pop culture.
Too Stupid To Live: Comedy writer/actor Becky Feldman along with a hilarious guest review of romance novels that are $5 or less. Each episode is filled with naughty reviews, sexy excerpts, and perceptive analysis on those steamy book covers.
Top To BOTM: The podcast celebrates the M/M romance genre across books, yaoi, comics, video games, and more! At the top of the month, they discuss the various goings-on of the genre and announce the Book of The Month. At the BOTM, they will discuss their book pick at length.
Shelf Love: A romance novel podcast meant to engage the romance reading community and crowdsourcing its thoughts on the hosts reads books. Guest hosts include romance reviewers, longtime readers, and newbies to the genre.
Whoa!Mance: A podcast covering Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves
Not Your Mom’s Romance Book Club: Imagine reading your favorite steamy romance novel… with your mom reading over your shoulder. Ellen and her mom set out to do just that with this book club and they want you to join in. It’s fun, it’s swoony, and it’s awkward.
Living in The Pages: hosted by author Willow Aster, this podcast features insightful interviews with authors about their books, life, and the art of writing.
Tea and Strumpets: Tune in to hear two friends discuss all the steamy (and sometimes tepid) details of the regency romance genre.
First Cup of Coffee: author Jeffe Kennedy shares her first cup of coffee of the day with listeners, giving a daily insight into the realities of being a career author.
The Turn On: “Join us each week as we read a work of literary erotica created with Black women, femmes and gender nonconforming folx in mind, then explore the “sex and…” of it all via deeply personal (and hilarious!) discussions and chats with fantastic guests.”
Combining into a network allows us as podcast creators to work together to mutually grow our audiences and cross-promote, and also gives us the opportunity to work with advertisers for maximum exposure.
And since the building began behind the scenes, my listening list has grown to delightful levels. There are book club style discussions, author interviews, comedy, critique, really interesting insider info and stories about writing processes, and (obviously) fantastic conversations.
It won’t change anything about the shows themselves. I’ll still be creating, hosting, and producing new episodes each week. But it does mean more to listen to, and more to enjoy.
So I hope you’ll take a look at the podcast network shows and try some new shows – and please, let me know which episodes you enjoy most!
So much good listening! I listened to the Shelf Love podcast for the first time last week. Kini from SMEXY discussed one of my all-time favorite romances, TIME SERVED by Julianna Keyes. One of the best parts of the podcast was the discussion of the problematic elements of the story (the hero’s rape fantasy, the heroine’s slut-shaming of a co-worker), but also discussed other elements that make the book worth reading and how and why we can still enjoy problematic works. And I am definitely going to be listening to some of these new-to-me podcasts now.
Yay, indeed!
Sarah, would you happen to know if any of the other podcasts provide transcripts? The fact that you provide a transcript of each episode is a huge boon to me.
@Kareni: I’m so pleased that the transcripts are so helpful for you. I don’t know for every show, but I will find out!
Thank you, Sarah! That would be much appreciated.
Another Karen who appreciates the transcripts. I have some hearing issues (including loud and constant tinnitus) and I can read a lot faster than I can listen (does that even make sense?–oh, well) so I always read the transcript. I will listen for a few minutes if it’s a favorite author and I want to hear her voice but then it’s back to the printed version.
I try out new podcasts all the time and the quality varies so much – I’m always grateful for networks of podcasts and recommendations. I’ve only listened to a couple of these others on the list (shout out to Chicago-based Whoa-Mance!). Looking forward to listening to more.
This is great. I mean, I hope it works for you, but for advertisers having a network to buy into is a great help. So here’s to great things!