{"id":750914,"date":"2013-05-13T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=229302"},"modified":"2013-05-13T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:36:07","slug":"amazon-publishing-launches-kindle-love-stories-podcast-focused-on-romance-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750914","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Publishing launches Kindle Love Stories podcast, focused on romance books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon hopes to harness the large community of romance readers with a new weekly romance podcast, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindlelovestories.com\/\">Kindle Love Stories<\/a>.&#8221; It will feature author interviews, reviews and trends in romance books, and is accompanied by a book discussion group on Goodreads, the reading social network that Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2013\/03\/28\/first-do-no-harm-my-interview-with-amazon-and-goodreads-on-the-future-of-goodreads\/\">acquired in March<\/a>.<\/p> <p>The podcast is sponsored by Amazon Publishing&#8217;s romance imprint, Montlake Romance. The first two featured titles &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crazy-Little-Thing-ebook\/dp\/B0089NUSMK\/ref=kin_love_stories_051413_B0089NUSMK\"><em>Crazy Little Thing<\/em><\/a> by Tracy Brogan and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Second-Chance-Springs-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B0091TMCE8\/ref=kin_love_stories_051413_B0091TMCE8\"><em>The Second Chance Caf\u00e9<\/em><\/a> by Alison Kent &#8212; were both published by Montlake, although <em>USA Today<\/em>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/happyeverafter\/2013\/05\/13\/kindle-love-stories-podcast-amazon-laura-roppe-tracy-brogan\/2154253\/\">first reported the news<\/a> about the podcast, says that &#8220;the books discussed will span a variety of publishers and imprints, including indie-pubbed books.&#8221; (Many of those indie-pubbed books will likely be published through Amazon&#8217;s own KDP.)<\/p> <p>The podcast host is Laura Ropp\u00e9, a singer-songwriter and the author of\u00a0<em>Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer<\/em>, published by Seal Press in 2012.<\/p> <p>There are a number of podcasts out there focused on romance books, including those from <a href=\"http:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/blog\/podcast\">Smart Bitches Trashy Books<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/romanceradio.net\/\">Romance Radio Network<\/a>. 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