Archive - That Rom Com Pod

Episode 43: Summer Bonus

It's a reunion! We've missed each other and you all, we couldn't let 2025 end without a summer reading chat!

Dec 23, 2025 • Karina May and Clare Fletcher

August 2025

Episode 42: Bitter and Sweet (with Amal Awad)

We set out to talk about foodie fiction and ended up having a much bigger conversation

Aug 5, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

July 2025

Episode 41: Rockstar Romance (with Laura Carter)

The love song between musician and muse

Jul 22, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

Episode 40: Bucket Lists (with Holly Brunnbauer)

Souped up cars, life lists and pleasure quests...

Jul 8, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

June 2025

Episode 39: Literary Love Stories (with Jessica Stanley)

What makes a love story literary? We discuss some new releases and old favourites

Jun 24, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

Episode 38: Publishing Trends (with Chloe Berry)

Romantasy, dark romance, BookTok, oh my!

Jun 10, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

May 2025

Episode 37: Marriage of Convenience (with Jodi McAlister)

“We ended up here in this kind of soup of tropes: academic, rivals to lovers, marriage of convenience.”

May 27, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

Episode 36: Author special: Mhairi McFarlane

‘I only realised afterwards that I'd written Lizzie and Darcy at a newspaper.'

May 13, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

April 2025

Episode 35: Category romance (with Ally Blake)

This Romantic Book of the Year winner knows How to Write Romance

Apr 29, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

Episode 34: Bookish rom coms (with Nina Kenwood)

‘Creative yearning alongside romantic yearning is my sweet spot’

Apr 15, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

Episode 33: Single parents (with Steph Vizard)

‘There’s no epidural for writers block’

Apr 1, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May

March 2025

Episode 32: Real Life Romance (with Emma Grey)

When truth is stranger than fiction, and fiction is the lie that tells the truth

Mar 18, 2025 • Clare Fletcher and Karina May