TLT (The Lesbian Talkshow)

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Rebekah Weatherspoon’s Recommended Lesfic Reads

Les Do Books

In this episode, Rebekah Weatherspoon joins Tara to talk about lesfic that she recommends, as well as a few books from her to-be-read pile. Authors are readers too, so Tara was excited to hear about which books Rebekah loves and is looking forward to checking out.

Check out the books discussed here:

Awake Unto Me by Kathleen Knowles

The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler

Tara is a reviewer for The Lesbian Review, find her favourite books here. The Lesbian Review is a website dedicated to bringing you the best in lesbian fiction, movies, TV, fanfic and music.

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The Write Stuff: 15 Ways Authors Should Use Video Sep 25, 2017

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15 Ways Authors Should Use Video

Tamara joins Sheena on this episode of The Write Stuff and they chat about 15 ways that authors should be using videos to engage more with their audience.

The Video Types Include

Author Q and A
Sneak Peak Videos
Revealing Your New Title
Cover Reveals
New Characters
Announcing A Book For Release
Books Being Released Into The World
Giveaways and Competitions
An Interview
Tutorials
Live Q And A
Story Inspiration
Vloging/Behind The Scenes Updates
Writing Tips
Review Books

Places You Can Use Video ; YouTube and YouTube Live; Facebook and Facebook Live; Periscope , Instagram Live

About The Hosts

Tamara is a marketing professional and has helped Sheena build her websites and her social media presence.

Sheena started The Lesbian Review and The Lesbian Talkshow. She saw a gap for great content for listeners and readers. The Lesbian Review is now one of the biggest review websites in the sector.

Book Clips: The Long Past & Other Stories by Ginn Hale Sep 24, 2017

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The Long Past & Other Stories by Ginn Hale

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Synopsis

1858 –Warring mages open up a vast inland sea that splits the United States in two. With the floodwaters come creatures from a long distant past. What seems like the End Times forges a new era of heroes and heroines who challenge tradition, law, and even death as they transform the old west into a new world.
--In the heart of dinosaur country a laconic trapper and a veteran mage risk treason to undertake a secret mission.
--A brilliant magician and her beautiful assistant light up stages with the latest automaton, but the secrets both of them are hiding test their trust in each other and pit them against one of the most powerful men in the world.
--At the wild edge of the Inland Sea, amidst crocodiles and triceratops, an impoverished young man and a Pinkerton Detective must join forces to outmaneuver a corrupt judge and his gunmen.

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Book Clips: Threads Of The Heart by Jeannie Levig Sep 21, 2017

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Threads Of The Heart by Jeannie Levig

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Synopsis

No one travels this life alone.
Maggie Rae-McInnis is happy in her twelve-year relationship with Addison and renting out the rooms in their large home in the Hollywood Hills. Her one nagging fear is that her partner is not as happy as she is—and she is right. Addison is a hot mess. Though she loves Maggie, she feels something is missing. When she meets Victoria Fontaine, a confident, sexy, and manipulative younger woman, she is swept into something new, exciting, and a little dangerous.
Tess Rossini and Dusty Gardner, the couple’s closest friends and long-term tenants, face their own fears as they navigate the uncharted waters of love, and Eve Jacobs, newest arrival, finds herself on a path of self-discovery.
The love and friendship these women share make up the threads that weave together to form the unbreakable bonds that last a lifetime.

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Book Clips: A Girl Called London by Clare Lydon Sep 20, 2017

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A Girl Called London by Clare Lydon

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Synopsis

When life knocks you down, can love pick you up?

Tanya Grant is a high-flyer who’s ready for a fresh start. That is, until her gran dies, leaving behind her dog, Delilah, and a hot mess of family pain.

Enter Sophie London, dog walker and girl about town. She’s on a romance sabbatical after getting burnt, and nothing changes when she meets Tanya.

However, when their paths keep crossing, the pair are thrown together on a roadtrip to Tanya’s home town. What happens next changes both their lives forever.

If you love romance with humour and heart — along with a cast of pooches — you’ll love the latest London Romance from the best-selling author of London Calling and This London Love.

Join Tanya & Sophie on their journey of a lifetime as they discover whether love really can lift them up where they belong!

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The Write Stuff: Creating Captivating Characters With Heather Rose Jones Sep 18, 2017

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Heather Rose Jones On Writing Great Characters

In this episode of The Write Stuff Sheena talks to Heather Rose Jones about her process for creating characters and how she nails the octopus to the wall.

Find out:

What questions to ask about your character
The three layers of story
Why writing a character is like getting to know a friend

About Heather Rose Jones

Heather Rose Jones writes fantasy, historic fantasy, and historical fiction, including the Alpennia series with swordswomen and magic in an alternate Regency setting. She blogs about research into lesbian-like motifs in history and literature at the Lesbian Historic Motif Project which provides inspiration for her fiction. She has a PhD in linguistics, studying metaphor theory and the semantics of Medieval Welsh prepositions, and works as an industrial failure investigator in biotech.

You can find Heather Rose Jones on her website

Book Clips: Unexpected by Jenny Frame Sep 17, 2017

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Unexpected by Jenny Frame

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Synopsis

Self-made business owner Dale McGuire has always enjoyed two things in life: women and fast cars. Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down.
Rebecca Harper bears the emotional scars of her father’s crimes, and now she has two rules: never let anyone get too close, and never admit weakness. Thanks to an anonymous egg donor, infertility didn’t stop her from having her son Jake. Now pregnant for a second time, she’s horrified when Jake brings home the woman he believes is his other mother.
When distrust turns to understanding and passion, can Dale and Rebecca, two women bound by fate, make a family neither expected?

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Les Do Books: Poppy Jenkins (Book Club) Sep 14, 2017

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Poppy Jenkins

Les Do Books

Tara is joined in this episode by her Sheena, founder of The Lesbian Review and The Lesbian Talkshow channel, to talk about Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton.

Listen to find out why they adore it and which character makes Tara’s blood boil.

This podcast has spoilers, so be sure to read the book before you check it out.

Poppy Jenkins

From the back of the book:

Two old friends, one hot summer, a whole load of confusion.

Poppy Jenkins makes everyone smile. She’s the heart of Wells, a beautiful village in mid-Wales, leaving light and laughter in her wake. She has a doting family, an errant dog and a little sister with a nose for mischief. But she’s the only gay in the village and it’s a long time since she kissed a girl: the chance of romance in sleepy Wells is rarer than a barking sheep. If she doesn’t think too hard, life is cosy, until a smart sports car barrels into town with the last woman Poppy wants to see behind the wheel. Beautiful Rosalyn Thorn was once Poppy’s high school BFF even though she was trouble. Then one day she abandoned Wells and Poppy without explanation. Now the highflier is back and bound to cause fresh havoc in the village and with Poppy’s heart; folk are not happy.

Wells needs to wake up to the 21st century and Rosalyn can help, but old prejudices die hard. If they can be friends it could be the chance to make everyone’s happy ever after.

Couldn’t it?

Tara also announces the next book club pick: And Playing the Role of Herself by KE Lane

Tara is a reviewer for The Lesbian Review, find her favourite books here. The Lesbian Review is a website dedicated to bringing you the best in lesbian fiction, movies, TV, fanfic and music.

Follow Tara on Twitter for more recommendations

Book Clips: Shattered by Lee Winter Sep 11, 2017

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Shattered by Lee Winter

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Narrated by Ann Etter

Synopsis

Earth’s first black, lesbian superhero has had enough of humanity and disappeared. A stubborn tracker is sent to bring her home…any way she can.
Shattergirl is a brilliant but aloof black, alien superhero who can hurl and destroy large objects. The world reveres her and other guardians like her, yet she’s suddenly refusing to save people and has suddenly disappeared.
Lena Martin, the street-smart human tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring Shattergirl home.
As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack, and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both.
An award-winning, opposites-attract, lesbian science fiction story about embracing the special people who pass through our lives and change us forever.

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Book Clips: The Price Of Payback by SW Andersen Sep 10, 2017

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The Price Of Payback by SW Andersen

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet.

Synopsis

One year has passed since Sarah Sawyer avenged the death of her parents in a quest that nearly cost her life.
Now the gunslinger is living a life she never imagined. No longer roaming the trails alone, she and Jo Porter, the woman she loves, live in relative peace, working a thriving farm of their own.
But payback comes with a price.
The lingering fear of unsettled debts haunts them both, threatening their newfound peace. When ghosts from the past come to collect, Sarah risks losing herself to the darkness she'd fought so hard to escape.
Can she pull herself back from the depths or will the harsh world of the old west finally break her?
S.W. Andersen delivers another action-packed romance in the thrilling sequel to "Somewhere Between Love and Justice."
This is S.W. Andersen's second novel. Her first earned such praise as "A Riveting Read", "Keeps You Wanting More" and "UNPUTDOWNABLE."