Hi, everyone. It's Sarah. I have a couple of things to say before we start the episode. The first one is,

if you have been waiting for my Start Your Romance today class to run, now's your chance to join it.

I'm giving it on February 23rd at 1 p.m. It is a two and a half hour long class live by Zoom, but the recording is available

for one month after the class. And it's really a beginner level class. It covers everything

soup to nuts about writing your first romance novel. So if you have an idea or you've been

kind of kicking around the idea of starting

to write a romance, this is the class for you. You can learn more at sarah mclean.net slash writing

dash romance. Or as always, you can click on the link in show notes. Another important thing.

This week's episode covers a lot of ground and was very fun to

record, but we do talk about a number of books that were published in the early 2000s, and we want to

make sure that if you need content warnings, you check them before you go blazing off to read some of the books that we have selected this

week and that we discuss. Books that were written in the early 2000s don't always have the

same level of awareness that books written today do, and we want to make sure that you all

understand that we're deep in the rabbit hole of romance history this week. Enjoy.

Jen, I have a game for you. Oh, all right. I'm ready. Okay, so TikTok is, who knows what TikTok is doing.

Mark Zuckerberg is doing whatever Mark Zuckerberg is doing.

And I'm sort of feeling like we're at the end of the world in terms of social media. And so it's like a literal matter of days before I'm just off all of it. Right. Sure. I literally had a conversation with my, with my new editor or the editor of these summer storms, which is out in NetGalley, everybody,

if you have a NetGalley account, you can request it. And I was like, what are the odds that

social media is going to be literally anything in July? Yeah. And we basically netted out at

super great you have a podcast, Sarah, like well, well considered seven years ago.

Anyway, but now there's doing this thing where, like, all of the TikTok people are now

moving over to Instagram.

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