Amanda and I are traveling back to June 1997 to discuss:
- Touring inside author’s homes and whether we think it’s kinda intrusive and uncomfortable
- Neverending reader hate for “the F word”
- The fans used to blow back cover models’ hair
- And speaking of, what’s on the Cover Model Pageant contestant’s heads?
And more!
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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:
We have so many links! Are you ready!
- Mental Floss: The origin of “Live, Laugh, Love”
- Janelle James and Connor Storrie on the red carpet (Reddit link with video)
- Links from Steve Ammidown about Genesis Press:
- 1980-2000 Black Publishers – Black Romance Publishers: Representation vs. Exploitation by Sophie Kebret (Unsuitable/Duke University)
- Authors Cite Problems with Genesis Press by Calvin Reid | Sep 15, 2006, Publishers Weekly (Archive link)
- One Perfect Rose hardcover – eBay
- The Instagram account of Aureltattoo, who dances in front of a fan
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And, of course: VISUAL AIDS!
Here is the cover, which could have shown off the books a LOT better.

The full page ad for Connie Mason’s Shadow Walker on the inside cover:

And in case you were wondering: here is the HAUNCH-TASTIC COVER:

There’s a LOT of wind in many of the DeSalvo pictures in this issue, and it is a blessing for him that no wind machine was present whilst he was wearing a loincloth.
Behold: Mustache.


LOOK how uncomfortable that must be, and they have to act like they’re super into each other while perched on some stairs.
And then there was this discomfort from the I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter launch party:

The senior brand manager at Lipton dipping Susan Paul – this makes me so very uncomfortable on a professional level.
What is on John DeSalvo, and where is that wind coming from?

I LOVE THIS IMAGE OF JANE AUSTEN BY A POOL!

Here is how it appeared in the magazine – inside a browser window!

Time for some 90s covers!
What’s going on with her neck? Is she ok?

That hair color is green, and that dog is very cute.

WHENCE doth this WIND ARRIVE? Also, I’d like to know the conditioner regimen here.

Slightly blurry, but FULL O’ SMARM is Cleve.
No shirt, no idea on shoes, full mullet – I wouldn’t serve him.

Again with the conditioner, but ouch that tree bark.

That poor horse wants to be elsewhere.
I’m really not sure what this was all about, but you could buy these photos.

It looks like he was sawed in half, right? What is up with his mid-section?

You can see why I thought at first glance that these were Indigenous American headdresses and was aghast. They’re mardi gras masks, which, thank heavens.

Also, all the pleated jeans and baggy sweats! Oh, my, the 90s were a time.
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