That Rom Com Pod

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Mudgee Readers Festival (Aug 17-18) Sydney Writers Festival Adaptable One Day Bridgerton Before Sunrise Before Sunset When Harry Met Sally Love, Just In, Natalie Murray The Hating Game, Sally Thorne Mhairi McFarlane The Flat Share, Beth O’Leary The Last Love Note, Emma Grey Kit McBride Gets A Wife, Amy Barry Marrying Off Morgan McBride, Amy Barry Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld Talking at Night, Claire Daverley All The Beautiful Things You Love, Jonathan Seidler Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors Part of Your World / Yours Truly Abby Jimenez Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Victoria Brookman (Instagram) Burnt Out, Victoria Brookman Mystic Ridge, Lucy Lever Annie Seaton The Most Important Job In The World, Gina Rushton “Why We Need More Climate Change Love Stories” A Court of Thorns and Roses / Throne of Glass series / Crescent City series Sarah J. Maas Bride, Ali Hazelwood Love From Scratch, Amy Hutton Me That You See, Anne Freeman All The Beautiful Things You Love, Jonathan Seidler Because of Her, Devon May (Devon’s Instagram) Claire Christian’s Substack, PEARLER Part of Your World / Yours Truly / Just For The Summer / Worst Wingman Ever, Abby Jimenez Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Saman Shad (Saman Shad, Instagram, TikTok) The Matchmaker, Saman Shad (2023, Penguin) ‘Rom-coms need more diverse characters, and I’m helping to make that change’, Saman Shad, SBS Voices Anyone But You (2023) Set It Up (2018) Upgraded (2024) ‘Anyone but You was a mega hit, but romcom sequels are a terrible idea’ (GQ) ‘First trailer for Zach Braff's new rom-com with Vanessa Hudgens’ The Leo graph (Reddit) The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020) Emma, Jane Austen (1815) No Strings Attached (2011) Friends With Benefits (2011) Set It Up (2018) The Set Up, Lizzy Dent (2022, Penguin) Five Blind Dates (2024) What’s Love Got To Do With It (2022) See Also with Monica Heisey Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Amy Hutton (Sit, Stay, Love / Love From Scratch) @amyhuttonauthor Marley & Me, John Grogan The Dog Sitter, Zara Stoneley Love, Just In, Natalie Murray The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns Breaking All The Rules, Amy Andrews You’ve Got Mail Who Gets the Dog Puppy Love Colin From Accounts Love Unleashed, Melanie Saward The Truth About Cats and Dogs Romance Writers of Australia In A World The Word Count The Hating Game, Sally Thorne Tom Lake, Anne Patchett Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod | Full shownotes on Substack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Rise of Rom-Com at Newcastle Writers Festival Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane Love and Other Scores, Abra Pressler Notting Hill Starstruck Music And Lyrics The Bodyguard, Katherine Center Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld The Idea Of You, Robinne Lee One Day, David Nicholls / Netflix series / Official playlist High Fidelity, Nick Hornby / 2000 film / 2020 TV series The Matchmaker, Saman Shad The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston Sit Stay Love, Amy Hutton Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Rachael Johns The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary / film / The Edge of Reason / film / Mad About The Boy / Bridget Jones’ Baby / film The Sparkle Pages, Meg Bignell Sweet Home Alabama Dawson’s Creek Felicity Twilight West Side Honey, Claire Christian The Search Party, Hannah Richell Naked in Death, J.D. Robb Watermelon, Marian Keyes Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews Grace Under Pressure, Tori Haschka Magpie / Friendaholic, Elizabeth Day Just Friends, Gyan Yankovich Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod | Full shownotes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shownotes on Substack Guest: Josh Hortinela Good Material, Dolly Alderton Love, Just In, Natalie Murray Perfectish, Jessica Seaborn She's The Man One Day, David Nicholls / Netflix Sleepless in Seattle / An Affair To Remember You've Got Mail The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston / The Lake House Fire Island Anyone But You Ralph’s Party, Lisa Jewell Just Friends, Gyan Yankovich A Winter in New York, Josie Silver Everyone and Everything, Nadine Cohen Part Of Your World, Abby Jimenez Recorded on Gadigal land | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Bronze Horseman, Paulina Simons Cloudstreet, Tim Winton The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns Green Dot, Madeleine Gray Search History, Amy Taylor Nobody Puts RomComs In the Corner, Kathryn Freeman Love Interest, Claire Gilmore The Burnout, Sophie Kinsella Edenglassie, Melissa Lucashenko The Hummingbird Effect, Kate Mildenhall Everyone and Everything, Nadine Cohen The Work, Bri Lee Anything Joanna Nell & Sophie Green Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews Dreaming in French, Vanessa McCausland A Winter In New York, Josie Silver Anything Penelope Janu The Next Big Thing, James Colley Her Fidelity, Katharine Pollock Four Night Stand, Georgia Moore Loving Lizzie March, Susannah Hardy Recorded on Gadigal land | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Spoiler alert! This episode we’re digging into the three Christmas texts we assigned as homework, and there will be spoilers! You’ve been warned! If you want to read/watch for yourself before listening, the texts are: One Day in DecemberFalling For ChristmasNetflixWindow WonderlandPrime Christmas cocktail Cheers with a Candy Cane Christmas cocktail. Love how this recipe does not include quantities, it’s a really choose-your-own-adventure, but you’ll need: Also randomly mentioned Lonely Harts Club RadioMean GirlsBingeNew GirlDisney+The Christmas BookshopWreck the HallsAll I Want For Chris-masPenny Carroll’s interview with Emma Mugglestone Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Single All The Way Catch Me If You Claus A Merry Scottish Christmas Christmas Inheritance This Has Been Absolutely Lovely, Jessica Dettmann Jones Family Christmas The Holiday Love Actually Happiest Season Never Ever Forever, Karina May Dash and Lily Home for Christmas A Moody Christmas One Day in December, Josie Silver Christmas Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella A Country Vet Christmas The Fabric of Christmas Good Material, Dolly Alderton Heart Sick, Jessie Stephens Emergency Exit Only, Michelle Upton You Again, Kate Goldbeck The Italian Marriage, Jenna Lo Bianco Recorded on Gadigal land | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Never Ever Forever, Karina May ‘What Does A Happily Ever After Look Like?’, The Pudding The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast, Karina May Dreaming in French, Vanessa McCausland One Summer in Santorini, Sandy Barker Returning to Adelaide, Anne Freeman Just One Wish, Rachael Johns Amber and Alice, Janette Paul The Last Love Note, Emma Grey How To Be Second Best, Jessica Dettmann Five Bush Weddings, Clare Fletcher The Lost City (Binge) Romancing The Stone (Disney+) The Mummy (Binge) True Lies (Disney+) Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews Bound To Happen, Jonathon Shannon Love In Theory, Elodie Cheesman Something Blue by Alex Sarkis Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Books and movies mentioned during this episode: Happy PlaceWhen Harry Met SallyPrimeLove, Just InNot Here To Make FriendsThe Next Big ThingOne DayWhat IfThe F WordPrimeSwiss Army Man StanPaterson Love And Other Scores Marry Me JulietThe OneCaroline O’DonoghueThe Rachel IncidentSentimental GarbageBridie Jabour’s interview with CarolineCool StoryRoaring Stories’ Facebook Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stepbrother Dearest; Emma, Jane Austen; Twilight, Stephanie Meyer; Steffanie Holmes; The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith. Jodi McAlister: Here For The Right Reasons, Can I Steal You For A Second, Not Here To Make Friends. At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree, Alli Parker. Genevieve Novak: Crushing, No Hard Feelings. Never Ever Forever, Karina May. Clueless (Binge); Emma (1996, Stan/2020, Binge); Romeo + Juliet (1996, Disney+); Twilight (Binge); Brokeback Mountain (Binge); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (SBS); Carol (Binge); The Big Sick (Prime); Five Feet Apart (Prime); Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner; Three Men and a Baby. Recorded on Gadigal land. Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. @thatromcompod / https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BOOKS: Bound To Happen, Jonathan Shannon; Love, In Theory, Elodie Cheesman; No Hard Feelings, Genevieve Novak; Ghosts, Dolly Alderton; One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston; Playing The Field, Zoe Foster Blake; Sit Stay Love, Amy Hutton; Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews; Not Meeting Mr Right, Anita Heiss; Legally Blak, Teela Reid; Burn, Melanie Saward; The Summer Job, Lizzy Dent. | MOVIES: Notting Hill (Binge); Ibiza (Netflix); A Cinderella Story; Only You (Netflix); Serendipity (Stan); 50 First Dates (Amazon Prime);The Holiday (Binge); The Big Sick (Prime); Ruby Sparks (Disney+); Fleabag (Prime); Love Actually (Binge) Recorded on Gadigal land. Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. @thatromcompod / https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Never Ever Forever Karina May; Happy Place, Emily Henry; Every Summer After, Carley Fortune; Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren; Star Crossed, Minnie Darke; Minnie Darke on Writes4Women; Once More With Feeling, Alyssa Sussman; Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane; Spring Clean For The Peach Queen, Sasha Wasley; Second Chance Love in Point Perry, Joanne Speirs | MOVIES: 13 Going On 30 (Binge); Ticket To Paradise (Binge); Sweet Home Alabama (Disney Plus); Before Sunrise (Binge) | SHELF LOVE: Lonely Harts Radio, Adeline Knight; Love For Life, Saman Shad; The Rachel Incident, Caroline O’Donoghue | Liked Yellowface, Rebecca F Kuang? Try Burnt Out by Victoria Brookman. Recorded on Gadigal land. Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. @thatromcompod / https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the full list of books, articles and films mentioned, with links, see our Substack. Funny StoryGood MaterialNever Ever ForeverWhile You Were Sleeping Disney PlusThe ProposalDisney PlusThe Kiss Quotient,Written In The StarsIf I Never Met YouThe Love HypothesisThe Love ContractBridget Jones’s DiaryJemima JQueen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get A LifeWest Side HoneyThe Matchmaker,Sorrow And BlissRomantic ComedyIt’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake That Rom Com Pod is recorded on Gadigal land and edited by Joshua Broadbent at Marker Creative Co. Instagram @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the full list of books, articles and films mentioned, with links, see our Substack. Icebreaker, Hannah Grace The Smutty Hockey Drama Melting Down BookTok (The Cut) Love Match, Clare Fletcher Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid Wimbledon (Binge) Cleat Cute, Meryl Wilsner Anne Of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery The Hating Game, Sally Thorne Beach Read, Emily Henry Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding 10 Things I Hate About You ( Stan) The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren The Love Contract, Steph Vizard Unnecessary Drama, Nina Kenwood Book Lovers, Emily Henry Red White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston Sit, Stay, Love, Amy Hutton Without Further Ado, Jessica Dettmann A sincere apology from Clare who misspoke and misgendered Meryl Wilsner and Casey McQuiston, both of whom use they/them pronouns. That Rom Com Pod is recorded on Gadigal land and edited by Joshua Broadbent at Marker Creative Co. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks for listening to our first episode of That Rom Com Pod, I think you can hear us finding our feet! Books and films we mentioned during the episode: Love MatchFive Bush WeddingsDuck a l’Orange for BreakfastHappy PlaceThe FlatshareJodi McAlisterHere For The Right ReasonsCan I Steal You For A SecondThe Hating GameIt Happened One SummerHook Line & Sinker Set It UpThe Last Love NoteIsland TimeNow And ThenYou’ve Got Mail NetflixPerfect-IshBound To HappenAli Berg & Michelle KalusThe Book Ninja While You Were Reading Fancy Meeting You Here Follow us on Instagram @thatromcompod Email updates: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Recorded on Gadigal land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.