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A podcast produced and hosted by USA Today bestselling author Tif Marcelo featuring authors and creators, their books and products, and how they are inspired and motivated everyday.
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Episode 93's guest is author Thien-Kim Lam. Thien-Kim Lam writes stories about Vietnamese characters who smash stereotypes and find their happy endings. A recovering Type-Asian, she guzzles cà phê sữa đá, makes art, and bakes her feelings to stay sane. Her debut book Happy Endings was a Washington Post Romance Novel of the Year. Her Mardi Gras romance Full Exposure is a love letter to her Vietnamese community in Louisiana. Thien-Kim also coaches writers of color and is an EDSE certified sex e...
Episode 92 is author J’Nell Ciesielski. Bestselling author J’nell Ciesielski has a passion for heart-stopping adventure and sweeping love stories while weaving fresh takes into romances of times gone by. When not creating dashing heroes and daring heroines, she can be found dreaming of Scotland, indulging in chocolate of any kind, or watching old black and white movies. She is a member of the Tall Poppy Writers and lives in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and lazy beagle. Learn more at w...
Episode 91: Today’s guest is my dearest friend April Asher, but the topic of conversation will be me! Today, February 25 is the release for LOVE LETTERS FROM THE TRAIL, the second book in the Spirit of the Shenandoah series, and April is here to help me celebrate. A little about April: USA Today Bestselling Author April Asher, aka April Hunt, was hooked on romantic stories from the time she first took a romance book out from her mom's bedside table. She now lives out her own happily-ever-afte...
Hi this is Tif of the Stories to Love Podcast and this is episode 90. Today’s guest is audiobook narrator Jennifer Aquino Jennifer Aquino is an actor and award-winning narrator based in Los Angeles with 20+ years working in film, television, theatre, and voiceover. Fun Fact: she's one of the doctors who killed McDreamy on ABC’s Grey's Anatomy. In the last three years, Jennifer has narrated for 16 publishers, including Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Podium...
Welcome to episode 89! I am back from my podcast hiatus! I didn’t mean to be away so long! And though I was absent from the podcast, if you follow me on socials and my newsletter, so many things have happened. It’s been over a year, friends, where there was quite a bit of change in our household. It was a year of deadlines, a move this summer, and getting set up—it was a whole big thing, having to get used to new schedules, while trying to have balance. We all know how that’s so hard. But I’m...
Episode 88 is a minisode! Today is me and me alone. I’m going to talk about some exciting podcast updates as we head into the end of this year. *** New Release: LETTERS FROM THE TRAIL, February 25, 2025 Note: some links are affiliate links Contact Tif at tif@tifmarcelo.com Please check out her website for podcast submissions
Episode 87 is Tosca Lee. Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels including THE LONG MARCH HOME (with New York Times bestselling author Marcus Brotherton) THE LINE BETWEEN, THE PROGENY, THE LEGEND OF SHEBA, and ISCARIOT. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and been optioned for TV and film. She is the recipient of two International Book Awards, Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion, ECPA Book of the Year, and the Nebraska Book Award, a...
Episode 86 is Jenna Levine. By day, Jenna Levine works to increase access to affordable housing in the American South. By night, she writes romance novels where ridiculous things happen to beautiful people. When Jenna isn't writing she can usually be found crying over k-dramas, starting knitting projects she won't finish, or spending time with her family and small aarmy of cats. In this episode, we discussed her debut My Roommate is a Vampire, which was a funny and delightful book. We discuss...
Episode 85 is Alli Frank and Asha Youmans Alli Frank has worked in education for over twenty years, from an overcrowded, cacophonous public high school to a pristine private girl’s school. She has been a teacher, curriculum leader, college counselor, assistant head, school co-founder, sometimes pastor, often mayor, and de facto parent therapist. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford University, Alli lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters. She is the co-author of Tiny...
Here with me today is Maida Malby. Filipino-American author Maida Malby cooks up foodie, multicultural, and contemporary destination romance stories filled with heat, sizzle, spice, and a whole lotta love. She is a member of select writing groups and romance book clubs. Her To-Be-Read Mountain and book reviews are featured here on her blog Carpe Diem Chronicles. Readers can also find her on Lone Star Literary Life via her regular Texas Reads Roundup Romance column. When not writing, reading, ...
Episode 83 of the Stories to Love podcast features Mansi Shah. Mansi Shah writes contemporary fiction novels with a focus on her Indian heritage and family relationships. She currently lives in Los Angeles, but she was born in Toronto, Canada, raised in the midwestern United States, and studied at universities in America, Australia, and England. When she’s not writing, she’s traveling and exploring different cultures near and far (having traveled to around 70 countries and counting), experi...
Hi everyone, this is Tif on the Stories to Love Podcast and this is episode 82. Today is a minisode to celebrate the last three years as an independently published podcast! With it, I’m going to share 3 big things I learned doing this podcast. I want to thank all of who have subscribed to this podcast! If you haven’t, I’d love it if you’d click to follow so you can get notifications of every new episode. And, if have found this podcast helpful and fun, please leave a rating and review—i...
Episode 81 is Priscilla Oliveras. Priscilla Oliveras is a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA® RITA® double finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latinx flavor. Proud of her Puerto Rican-Mexican heritage, she strives to bring authenticity to her novels by sharing her Latinx culture with readers. Her books have earned Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist along with praise from O, The Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times, Entertainment...
Hi everyone, this is Tif on the Stories to Love Podcast and this is episode 80. Here with me today is Heather Webber. USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber is the author of more than thirty novels. She loves to read, drink too much coffee and tea, birdwatch, crochet, and bake. She currently lives near Cincinnati, Ohio, and is hard at work on her next book. In this episode we discussed her most recent release At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities, and how her books are sparked by...
Episode 79 is Evelyn Skye. Evelyn Skye is a New York Times bestselling author of books for adults, young adults, and children. Her highly anticipated forthcoming novels include Damsel (which will also be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, and Angela Bassett) and The Hundred Loves of Juliet. Evelyn is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter. In this episode we discussed he...
Episode 78 is with author Anita Abriel. Anita Abriel is the international bestselling author of The Light After the War, Lana’s War, and A Girl During the War. She received a BA in English literature with a minor in creative writing from Bard College. Born in Sydney, Australia, she lives in California with her family. Her hobbies include walking on the beach, seeing classic movies, reading, and traveling. For more information, visit www.anitaabriel.com. In this episode we discussed her most r...
This is episode 77 of the Stories to Love Podcast. Today is a minisode with yours truly titled; I went on vacation and didn’t work, sort of: 5 tips to live in the moment. I’d been thinking of this episode for a while, because this year has been one big event after another, and in making some changes this year, I think I’ve moved toward some kind of vacation peace which I never had before. So, in this episode, I’m going to discuss the set up of what has been a personally busy year,...
Episode 76 of the Stories to Love podcast is here, and my guest is Carolyn Mackler. Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things; Infinite in Between; and The Future of Us, among others. Her award-winning novels have appeared on bestseller lists and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. The Wife App is her first novel for adults. In this episode we discussed...
This is episode 75 of the Stories to Love podcast. Here with me today is Kathleen Willett. Kathleen Willett is an English teacher who grew up in New Jersey and London. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, two daughters, and a cat named Mr. Sparkles. Her second novel, called Anything For A Friend, will be out in November. In this episode, we talked about her most recent novel MOTHER OF ALL SECRETS where we touched on the new, exhausted mother as the unreliable narrator. We talked abo...
Episode 74 of the Stories to Love podcast is up! Here with me today is Ferdelle Capistrano, who is the audiobook narrator of WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS. I know Ferdelle as an actor and audiobook performer, but the full story is that she is a multi-hyphenate creative — actor-director-writer-producer — and a first-generation Filipino-Canadian born and raised in Toronto. She instinctively understands the power of representation, since she grew up basically without it, so she set out to live her life to...
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