Rounding the corner on Season Three, and we’re missing Kresley Cole! This week, we read a book neither of us have read before — Kresley’s Captain of All Pleasures. A Victorian pirate book about a ship race. We talk about the magic of the debut romance, why pirates are often times icky, and why setting a book on a boat is risky business.

Next week, we’re back with an interstitial, and in two weeks, we’re reading a romantic suspense—Whiteout by Adriana Anders. Find it at Amazon (free in KU!), Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or from your local indie.

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Show Notes

• The requisite coronavirus chat: Sarah was very sick in 2020 and Kate and Jen did a “sickbed scenes” interstitial without her. Jen said someone is going to make a jingle out of “Fauci Ouchie” and it already happened. 
• Sarah’s upcoming book is available for pre-order. The title is Bombshell and it comes out August 24, 2021. You can read this interview with Sarah when EW did the cover reveal. 
• Check out Season one, which is all about Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series.
• Quite a few of Lisa Kleypas’s earliest novels are out of print and not available as eBooks, but you can probably find them used on eBay or Amazon. 
• Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake is Sarah’s debut, you should read it. 
• Borders was a bookstore that closed in 2011. Goodreads was invented in 2007 but took a few years to become popular, but once it was bought by Amazon, it completely stagnated. 
• Sarah was probably talking about Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours of practice rule, but how many words would that actually be?
• The Stephanie Plum series is now on book number 27, and all Jen has to say is #TeamRanger forever. Don’t @ her.
• Here’s Kresley’s FictionDB page for a complete list of her books in order. 
• Ships vs. boats, if getting those names is important to you, I guess. 
• The Amazing Race arc of IAD takes place over two books, No Rest for the Wicked and Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night. 
• Again the Magic was actually published in 2004, a year after Captain of All Pleasures. 
• The golden age of pirates was between 1650 and the 1730s, and of course our actual knowledge of pirates and piracy is limited. But most recently, of course, there are the Somali pirates. The race in Captain of All Pleasures was probably based on the Great Tea Race of 1866. 
• The history of henna tattoos. 
• A marchioness is a higher rank than an earl. 
• Dr. Gunter has some information for you about the hymen. 
• That’s what she said. 
• Hattie ties Whit to a mast in Brazen and the Beast, in case you want more of that. 
• Next up, Whiteout by Adriana Anders.

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