winey writers

very strict about the wine consumption. — Season One Finale

...and that's a wrap on winey writers, season one !!
this episode, we reflect on a year of podcasting: how our friendship has changed and improved through this process, why we are taking a break now, our favourite parts of the podcast, and what our (vague) plans are for the future.
 
a huge thank you to our listeners who have made it this far with us! we love and appreciate all of you, and hope that you'll tune back in for season two, 2025. <3

yes, Harry's gay. yes, Abby's sad. — Book Covers

this episode, we discuss everything book covers: which covers are our favourites, which covers do we hate, what are our book cover pet peeves (movie editions, stickers, short covers, hardbacks), and how do we feel about AI art used on book covers?

it's sad to be heterosexual. — Music As Inspiration

this episode, we challenge each other to a new writing task where we create characters, plots, and settings to match the songs we have selected for one another. This turned into conversations about our favourite artists (incl. Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Noah Kahan, etc.) and the use of music as inspiration.

a bandaid over an arterial wound. — Writing a Novel is Hard

this episode, we sit down to chat about our writing progress and the challenges we are running into as we shape our debut novels. We discuss separating the critic from the author, a characters emotional journey, the cycles of imposter syndrome, and the urge to chase after new, shiny things instead of finishing the task at hand.

I don't care about Will Turner, only Elizabeth Swann. — 5 Star Books

this episode, we discuss books that we thought would be 5 star reads but were not, and then books that we expected to be flops but were actually 5 star reads. Without spoiling which are which, our lists included: Assassins Blade by Sarah J. Maas; When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker; One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig; If We Were Villians by M. L. Rio; and more. 

surprise mother fuckers, it's book club. — The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

it is such a rare thing for both of us to rate a book 5 stars, so when we each read The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren and fell equally in love with Anna and Liam...we HAD to record our thoughts. 
The Paradise Problem is like Succession meets The Proposal and will single-handedly convince forced proximity haters that the trope is 100/10 when done right (and boy is it done right here). 
Join us as we discuss what we loved, what we disliked, and our fancast picks for the Paradise Problem movie that we desperately need. 

fuckin top that glass up, bucko. — RWAus Conference

have you ever wanted to attend a giant three day party dedicated to romance novel obsessed individuals? RWAus might just be for you.
this episode, we have a conversation about the Romance Writers of Australia (RWAus) annual conference which we attended this August 2024. This includes discussions about networking, how under-appreciated the romance genre is, and just how welcoming the romance community can be.
(...and wine drinking, but that should be obvious by now.)

if my heart had a dick you would kick it. — Gideon the Ninth

Welcome to #3 of the WineyWriters Book Club! 
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir follows a sword-wielding, lesbian ginger with an undercut and aviators—what else could you possibly need in a novel, really? Join us as we rave about all things necromancer and cavalier, the brilliant mind of Muir, and our predictions for the rest of the Locked Tomb series.
Spoiler Alert: we are OBSESSED.

did you mean creepy pasta or creepy pastor? — Weird Fiction

this week we're discussing Weird Fiction — often described as a liquid genre that seeps between the cracks of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery. It appears we were on a very different side of the internet than creepy pastas and Cthulhu and so we wrestle with internet definitions and articles to discover the conventions of Weird Fiction, discuss our own reoccurring nightmares, and question whether weird fiction can really be understood at all. 

kind-of-disconcerted-by-eachothers-presence to lovers. — Book Tropes

this week, we are attending a trope themed cocktail party, and so we're taking this opportunity to discuss everything book tropes! Our favourite tropes, least favourite tropes, how we feel about books being marketed by their tropes, which tropes we are absolutely sick of, and which tropes we use in our own writing.