Ep. 52 Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter

We’re joined this week by Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter, bestselling authors of some of our favorite books–and real life besties! We talk about their upcoming projects, their tortured heroes, kickass heroines, and their epic friendship. You’ll find out about who wants to wear the other one’s skin, the literal shrines they have to each other, and why this game of Fuck/Marry/Kill has a shockingly high body count!

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Highlights and favorite quotes from the episode:

“Gena knows how to kill people REAL BAD!” -GS
All about Gena’s Gods of War series–spoiler alert, it contains lots of Alpha heroes!
How Gena is the heroine of all her books
Why Gena’s friends don’t piss her off
Why Gena’s new YA series called The Forest of Good and Evil is the hardest to write that she’s ever experienced
“I just want one fucking book to flow out of me!” -KC
“Let me inspire and excite you!” -GS
“It’s like going to war and battling for every word.” -KC
How the pressures of audience expectations impacts their writing and how they work past it
“When you’re writing, it’s like sanding wood and you can feel the grains that still need to be sanded.” -KC
How often there’s synchronisity between their separate projects
How their epic friendship began (“Can I lick your face?” “When is she going to lick my face?”)
“We are not a tasteful show!” -SH
Why writer jealousy is bullshit
“By God, you better fucking like your own product…or don’t sell it!” -KC
What it’s like writing a storyline that you know will disappoint fans
Kresley’s inspiration for the Arcana Chronicles and how she developed it
Their hilariously differing responses to killing characters
Gena and Kresley’s preferences when it comes to Kresley’s Gamemaker Trilogy
What’s coming next in the Immortal’s After Dark series!
“Twist our arm!”
The Gena shrine
“Can my game be Kill/Kill/Kill!?” -GS
“So it’s like a praying mantis situation?” -GS
“I want to incentivize them for good sex. Bring it or die!” -KC
“We emerge as the only survivors…with some very fond memories!”
That time they had too much to drink and got lost in Manhattan and ended up in a horse drawn carriage–with Cherry Adair.
“You’re my pilot fish ghost!?” -KC
“Don’t fuck it up, Cole.” -JN

Books mentioned in this episode:

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean

Shadow and Ice by Gena Showalter

Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

Captain of All Pleasures by Kresley Cole

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

Warrior’s Woman by Johanna Lindsey

Darkest Warrior by Gena Showalter

The Master by Kresley Cole

The Player by Kresley Cole

The Professional by Kresley Cole

Books by P.C. Cast

Books by Jill Monroe

Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Dating by Christina Lauren

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.