Welcome to Heaving Boosoms, the podcast where two pals recap romance novels at their very

first live show. Oh yes, you're getting the recording of Heaving Boosoms first live performance

at Love Sweet Arrow. But more on that in a second. HB's, this announcement is a hard one,

but you know you can always count on me to tell you a little too much.

Hashtag TMI with Melody. The past five months haven't been easy and I did what I normally do when

things go sideways, which is carry on while white knuckling and doing jazz hands and pushing my

feelings so far down that the Mariana's trench would be impressed. So for the next couple of months,

the main Heaving Boosoms feed is going on a short hiatus. Never fear patrons, one thing I am loving

is recapping the one that got away with Naima, so nothing is changing with Patreon. There will

still be new episodes, super cool authors at Book Club like Aaron Sterling in October and way more.

I haven't decided what to recap after the one that got away, so if you have suggestions,

don't be shy, slide right into my DMs, especially if you've read some good novellas lately.

I might pop into the feed every once in a while, but for the foreseeable future, you can find

new Heaving Boosoms content on our Patreon. The past four years have been a phenomenal but non-stop

adventure. I think the break is going to allow us all at HBHQ to recharge, regroup, and come back

better than ever. Now, I can't think of a better way to say see you soon,

than Nat and Sarah being amazing in front of our first live audience. They celebrated bookstore

romance day in the best way possible, surrounded by HBs. So here's their recap of Halfway to the

Grave by Janine Frost.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, six. No, I said we're going to six. I don't take

direction 12. Hi, Sarah, we're here in front of this audience. We're here in front of this audience.

It's kind of bizarre. When we were getting ready for this event, we were talking about like,

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