TLT (The Lesbian Talkshow)

The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter

Frustration and Fan Fiction with Lola Keeley

Les Do Books

This week, Lola Keeley (Music in the Mirror, Slammed) joins Tara to share her journey with f/f fiction. Listen to hear how frustration at not seeing herself in the media she loved drove Lola to write fanfic, how Lee Winter was the fairy godmother who helped her transition to original fiction, and her musings on the bigger and brighter future awaiting lesfic. It’s a great conversation. Come along for the ride.

Lola’s Recommendations:

Backwards to Oregon by Jae

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

Daughter of Fire: Conspiracy of the Dark by Karen Frost

The X Ingredient by Roslyn Sinclair

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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Book Clips: Soul Burn by Brenda Murphy and Megan Hart Feb 11, 2020

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Soul Burn by Brenda Murphy and Megan Hart

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear Brenda Murphy reading from her story Shifting Flames that appears in the book, Soul Burn, which is co-written with Megan Hart.

Synopsis

A mistress, a werewolf, a screenwriter and a shapeshifter walk into your heart in these two sexy paranormal stories of love and redemption.
Shifting Flames
Shunned screenwriter Eve Perez has something to prove. Shut out of the industry after a scandal, she’s ready to do whatever it takes to climb back to the top, even if it means working with notoriously difficult author Celeste Quon.
Reclusive best-selling author Celeste Quon is adored by a generation of fans, but would they love her if they knew her truth? Under pressure from her fans, Celeste agrees to bring her best-selling novel to the screen but on her terms.
After a freak spring snowstorm strands Eve at Celeste’s home she discovers Celeste’s incredible secret. Amid their fiery attraction should she let their relationship burn out, or surrender to the flames of their desire?
The Fire Inside
For Clara, crafting pain into pleasure is her job. For Selena, it’s her salvation. When submissive Selena hires Clara as her Domina, it seems like the best of business arrangements. But when their emotions infiltrate what was meant to be only professional, both women are rocked by the possibilities that their relationship might be changing into something… more.
Selena has given her submission to Clara for months, but faced with the idea of giving her heart, she runs. Loving Clara means revealing her secret, the one that sent her seeking pain in the first place, and it’s a risk Selena can’t take.
Clara, confused and terrified by the glimpse she had of Selena’s true self, can’t keep herself from wanting more. And, as Selena’s Miss, she’s not afraid to demand she be given the chance to take it. Snowed in at Clara’s mountain cabin, the women must face the truth about themselves and about each other.
Can true love grow from a business relationship, and can it conquer even the darkest of fears?

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Book Clips: Knotted Legacy by Brenda Murphy Feb 04, 2020

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Knotted Legacy by Brenda Murphy

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear an excerpt from Knotted Legacy by Brenda Murphy.

Synopsis

Martha McLeod, Head Mistress of Rowan House, Skye’s most exclusive pleasure house, is heartbroken.
Frustrated and lonely after a bitter split with her lover, she departs Rowan House for Lake Como, Italy to seek solace at the feet of Madam Givernay, keeper of Martha’s deepest secret. Lake Como and Madam’s attention is the perfect balm for Martha’s broken heart, until she meets Mistress Lucia Coruso.
Captivated by Lucia’s regal elegance and cool demeanor, Martha is torn between her desire for Lucia and the fear her secret will be revealed. When an extortionist threatens to destroy Rowan House, Martha and Lucia must join forces to save it.

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Les Do Books: Cracking the Case with Ann Aptaker Jan 30, 2020

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Cracking the Case with Ann Aptaker

Les Do Books

This week is a little different. The game is afoot, and Tara’s guide through the dark alleys and crime scenes is author Ann Aptaker (Flesh and Gold).

Writing about lesbians is a radical, political act, but it’s an act we primarily associate with romance. Ann makes the compelling pitch that different genres present different opportunities to see ourselves in and explore issues specific to us.

Writing about crime, just like writing about love, through a lesbian lens is a way of staking claim in a world that often sees lesbians as illegitimate. And at the very least, Ann promises a world of adventure to any who answers the alluring siren’s song of crime fiction.

Ann’s Recommendations:

The Girl on the Edge of Summer (Micky Knight Mysteries) by J.M. Redmann

Zero Sum Game (A Sid Rubin Silicon Alley Adventure) by Stefani Deoul

The Devil Inside (Cain Casey Series) by Ali Vali

Patricia Highsmith

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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Book Clips: Twice In A Lifetime by Clare Lydon Jan 28, 2020

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Twice In A Lifetime 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. In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Twice In A Lifetime by Clare Lydon narrated by TJ Richards

Synopsis

Once bitten, twice shy?

When her first love walks back into her life, Harriet Locke is thrown - because Sally McCall still looks as gorgeous as ever. The trouble is, Sally doesn't trust Harriet, and with good reason: she hasn't forgotten the past.

Sally loved her once, but 17 years later, is that still the case? And if it is, there's just the small matter of living in different states, as well as convincing Sally she's worth taking a chance on again.

Will Harriet and Sally be lucky enough to find love twice in a lifetime?

From the best-selling author of London Calling and Nothing to Lose comes a witty & wondrous story of second-chance romance!

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Book Clips: Deadly Deception by Cade Brogan Jan 21, 2020

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Deadly Deception by Cade Brogan

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Deadly Deception by Cade Brogan narrated by Emily Beresford.

Synopsis

Three die in a psychiatric hospital.
A triple homicide.
A contagion, deadly and mysterious, is the killer’s weapon of choice.

A dart flies.
A woman dies in the shower, her neck punctured.
A homicide, hours from Chicago.
Poison, deadly and concocted, is the killer’s weapon of choice.

As her city teeters on the verge of panic, Detective Rylee Hayes is forced to divide her attention between two killers - one whose actions could result in a global pandemic and the other, an old nemesis, whose next target is her fiancée.

And the clock ticks down....

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Les Do Books: Answering the Big Questions with S.W. Andersen Jan 17, 2020

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Captain of Industry by Karin Kallmaker

Answering the Big Questions with S.W. Andersen

Les Do Books

This week, Tara sits down with author S.W. Andersen to ask some of the eternal questions, the questions that keep us up at night, the questions whose answers define not just a person, but perhaps a generation.

Questions like…. "How big is your to-read list? Really?” And, “But seriously, who is the real ice queen in this book?”

The answers, dear listeners, will shock you.

S.W.’s Recommendations:

The Significant by Kyra Anderson

Perfect Rhythm by Jae

Breaking Character by Lee Winter

All Things Rise by Missouri Vaun

Tara’s Recommendations:

Because I Said So by Karin Kallmaker

Reintegration by Eden S. French

Reverb by Anna Zabo

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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Book Clips: Close Enough To Touch by Cade Brogan Jan 14, 2020

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Close Enough To Touch by Cade Brogan

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Close Enough To Touch by Cade Brogan narrated by Emily Beresford.

Synopsis

Joanna Grey injects the deadly poison into the chamber of the syringe - time after time. She's murdered before and she'll do it again. She's intelligent, educated, and beautiful.

At 35, Rylee Hayes is a respected homicide detective. Her best friends are her grandparents, her coonhound, and her partner - in that order. She's about ready to give up on the idea of a relationship. She hasn't seen the love of her life, Kenzie Bigham, since college.

At 34, Kenzie Bigham is the single mom of a 13 year old, a church secretary, and a woman who's struggled much of her adult life with her own sexuality.

Their paths will cross when Rylee's new investigation involves members of Kenzie's congregation. They'll discover that the passage of time may have offered them a second chance at love - just as Joanna sights her next target. Will Rylee have what it takes to meet the challenge of a serial killer who's proven herself to be a more than worthy opponent?

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Book Clips: Sum Of The Whole by Brenda Murphy Jan 07, 2020

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Sum Of The Whole by Brenda Murphy

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear an excerpt from Sum Of The Whole by Brenda Murphy.

Synopsis

Jaya Pomroy, security operative and mistress, falls desperately in love with Sarah Kerr while vacationing at Rowan House, Skye’s most exclusive and secretive resort. Unwilling to become Jaya’s possession, yearning for independence, Sarah refuses to leave with her and they part after a bitter fight.
Six years later they meet again. Fighting to leave her past behind, but unable to resist her attraction for Jaya, Sarah agrees to try again. Jaya has to cope with new rules and new roles. When a former client threatens to expose Sarah, Jaya risks everything to protect her.
Can their love survive in the real world filled with vengeful ex-lovers and deadly secrets?