Episode 20: New York City (with Melanie Saward)
Taking a juicy bite out of love stories set in the Big Apple
Thanks for listening to That Rom Com Pod, recorded on Gadigal land.
Our guest is Melanie Saward, a proud descendant of the Bigambul and Wakka Wakka peoples. She is a writer, editor and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. Mel’s debut novel Burn was released by Affirm Press in 2023, and her first romantic comedy Love Unleashed will be out with Penguin Books Australia on August 6, 2024. Find links to preorder it here.
Follow Mel on Instagram (@LittleRedWrites), Tiktok (@LittleRedWrites) or check out her Substack
.OK, here’s episode 20!
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Trending topics
Sydney Writers Festival (look out for session recordings to be released here)
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett (2023, Bloomsbury)
Popular Culture Association conference (Chicago)
New York City
Manhattan Dreaming, Anita Heiss (2010/2023, Simon & Schuster)
I Heart New York, Lindsey Kelk (2009, HarperCollins)
Gossip Girl (Stan, 2007-2012)
Sex And The City (Binge)
A Winter in New York, Josie Silver (2023, Penguin)
Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy Matthews (2024, Simon & Schuster)
Everything from Nora Ephron
Serendipity (2001, Stan)
You, Again, Kate Goldbeck (2023, Penguin)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992, Disney)
Perfect Pairings
The Truth According to Ember, Danica Nava (September 2024, Penguin)
Anita Heiss has acquired a commercial retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Larissa Behrendt, through her lens as a Euahlayai/Gamilaroi woman. (Anita is publisher at large for Bundyi, the First Nations imprint from Simon & Schuster)
Shelf Love
The Prospects, KT Hoffman (July 9, Hachette Australia)
Out On a Limb and Next Of Kin, Hannah Bonam-Young
The House With All The Lights On, Jessica Kirkness (2023, Allen & Unwin)
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