Laura Green
156 episodes listed below
Sapphic books, craft, and candid author talk.
The Sapphic Book Review is a generous author-interview show centered on sapphic fiction, romance, fantasy, and audiobook work. Laura Greene keeps the tone friendly and direct while guests talk through characters, research, representation, health, holidays, and the strange practicalities of writing life.
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The Sapphic Book Review is a focused, author-centered literature show for readers of sapphic fiction. Laura Greene interviews writers and narrators in a tone that is warm without being vague. The format is simple and effective. A guest arrives with a book, a series, a narration career, or a seasonal reflection, and the conversation opens into the personal and creative choices behind it. Recent episodes show a particular interest in romance structure, queer representation, and the work that happens before a reader ever sees the finished page. Jazz Forrester talks through Breaking from Frame as a 1969 story about Claire, Jackie, suburban constraint, and a burst of modern confidence next door. Alexis Westmore describes The Creation Code as a thriller-paced, science-based sapphic urban fantasy with an LGBTQ family voice in scientific conversations. K. Kenley frames Harper Uncovered around demisexuality, open communication, inner healing, and a slow burn built on knowing someone first. E.V. Bancroft speaks about older lesbian protagonists, queer history, and the need for happy endings beyond youth. The show also makes space for the technical side of performance. In the Angela Dawe interview, audiobook narration becomes a craft of spreadsheets, pronunciations, accent immersion, and tiny character decisions. Those details matter here. They turn books into made things, not just plots to summarize. The holiday episodes widen the circle with authors and narrators answering lighter questions about snow, travel, bad gifts, favorite characters, and hopes for 2026. The mood can be playful. It can also be candid, especially when health issues, underrepresentation, or difficult life turns enter the conversation. Greene's interviews tend to keep both registers in view. A listener gets book recommendations, but also a sense of the social world around sapphic publishing: small presses, author friendships, advice networks, conference buddies, reader enthusiasm, and the thrill of being noticed by someone unexpected. The result is not a detached review program. It is a welcoming archive of conversations with the people making sapphic stories, especially romance, fantasy, and character-driven fiction. The best fit is a reader who wants to hear how those stories are imagined, edited, voiced, defended, and loved.
Made for: For readers who follow sapphic romance, fantasy, queer literary community, and audiobook narration. It especially suits listeners who enjoy author interviews that mix craft detail with personal context.
What sets it apart: The show spends real time on representation and process, from demisexual romance and older queer protagonists to pronunciation spreadsheets and accent preparation. It feels less like a publicity stop and more like a sustained conversation inside sapphic publishing.
Fun and informative interviews with the best sapphic fiction writers. We talk about their books, but also about who they are as people. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoy bringing it to you.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A tender, craft-rich conversation that treats narration as both art and endurance.
Angela Daw's conversation with Laura Greene is at its best when it keeps the practical demands of audiobook narration in view alongside the health problems that have shaped her life since late 2018 and deepened after a late-2024 respiratory illness.
A close, thoughtful conversation about desire, restraint, and the pull of a second novel on ordinary life.
Jazz Forrester keeps the focus on Claire's unease, the suburban 1969 backdrop, and the way Jackie next door unsettles a life built around a traditional role.
A warm holiday roundup of personal answers, winter comforts, and year-end wishes.
The holiday special on the Sapphic Book Review Podcast gathers a series of small, personal responses about winter travel, bad gifts, favorite characters, and what people are looking forward to in 2026.
Two classical-education teachers slow-read novels like Jane Eyre, chapter by chapter.
Book talk with room to wander.
Host Laura Green interviews debut author Claire Denier about her novel Shot Through the Heart, discussing character development and her journey from fan fiction to published author.
Angela Dawe tells Laura Greene that her health issues began in late 2018 and worsened after a respiratory illness in late 2024, which made narration and daily life harder.
Laura Greene interviews Jazz Forrester about Breaking from Frame, a 1969 sapphic novel about Claire, a suburban housewife, and Jackie, a photographer who moves in next door.
Host Laura interviews author Alexis Westmore about her new sapphic urban fantasy thriller 'The Creation Code'.
Host interviews debut author Kay Kenley about her sapphic romance novel Harper Uncovered, focusing on demisexual representation and slow-burn romance.
Sapphic Book Review's Holiday Podcast Part 2 turns into a rapid-fire set of holiday preferences from authors and narrators including Eliza Lenski, Anna K.
The Sapphic Book Review’s 2025 Holiday Podcast Episode 1 has Laura Greene and sapphic authors and narrators answer questions about travel, handmade gifts, fictional guests, and plans for 2026.
An interview with author Evie Bancroft about her upcoming sapphic romance novel featuring older protagonists.
A ketchup-based tomato soup anecdote became Nicole Disney's award-winning story and a free short film on YouTube.
Host Laura Green interviews author Anna Burt about her upcoming sapphic romance novel and the Seal Cove series.
An interview with author Kristen Kepler about her sapphic romance novel 'Worth Waiting For' and her writing process.
Host Laura Greene interviews author Bryce Oakley about her sapphic romance novel 'One Last Run' and the real-life story behind a fish anecdote in the book.
Host Laura Green interviews author Dana Hawkins about her novel 'Not My Type', discussing characters, themes, and representation of epilepsy.
Host Laura Green interviews author Chris Zett about her new sapphic romance novel 'Whipping Hearts and Homes' and her writing process.
Host Laura Greene interviews author J.J.
Host Laura Green interviews married authors Angie Williams and Megan O'Brien about their sapphic historical fiction novel A Heart Divided.
Host Laura Greene interviews award-winning narrator Quinn Riley about her Goldie-winning narration of Rachel Lacey's book Stars Collide and her experience meeting the author.
Host Laura Greene interviews author Fanny Burnett about their new sapphic flash fiction novella 'The Price of Cookies' and discusses the appeal of the flash format and the meaning of community.