Ep. 2 Firsts and Favorites

Happy Wicked Wednesday, Wallflowers! We’re back talking about our firsts and our favorites. Do you remember your first exposure to the genre? Sarah and I dig into our wildly different first encounters and then explore some of our favorites. We couldn’t pick just one!

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*Books we mentioned in this episode:

The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an LA Dungeon by Jenny Nordbak

Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole

Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning

Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward

Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas

*The above links will take you to The Ripped Bodice website where you have the option to purchase the print books from the only exclusively romance bookstore in the US. We love them–please consider showing your support to such a wonderful small business! If you’re in the LA area, definitely go and visit the store–it’s magical!

Special thanks to our Editor, Chris Willett!

Some music for this episode provided by Free Music Archive under Creative Commons Licensing. “She’s a Gift” is composed by Borrtex and “Private Hurricane (Instrumental Version)” is composed by Josh Woodward.

Jenny Nordbak

About the Author

Jenny Nordbak earned a B.A in Interdisciplinary Archaeology from the University of Southern California. After graduating, she spent two years leading a double life, working in healthcare construction by day, while secretly working as a Dominatrix at a dungeon in LA by night. Her memoir, The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an LA Dungeon (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), is a candid look into that time in her life. Jenny is an advocate for sex positivity and female empowerment. She writes the Stocks and Bondage column for Penthouse and has been featured as a sex expert on The Doctors. She contributes to Men’s Health and has appeared in numerous publications including Newsweek, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook. She is currently working on developing her memoir for TV and finishing her next book, a romance novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.