Episode #32
Illicit Liaisons: Starlit & Spellbound with Marissa Marinello and Miranda Tamrakar
This week, we celebrate the release of Starlit & Spellbound , our first fall anthology, featuring 10 spellbinding romances with witches, ghosts, fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, curses, fate & more! We're chatting with two of the authors in Starlit & Spellbound, Marissa Marinello and Miranda Tamrakar, about bookish drama, their stories in Starlit & Spellbound, and more. Marissa Marinello is a SoCal native who writes urban, high fantasy, and cozy-romantasy. A TTRPG nerd who grew up on Tolkien, musical theater & comics, she's always been inspired by finding the fantastical in the mundane and building amazing worlds to tell rich stories in. Much of her work is inspired by real life moments that spark something more. Her work can be found in several anthologies, and she is an active participant in fandom and her writing group in Southern California. Marissa's Website https://marissamarinello.com/ Marissa's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mmarinello_author Miranda Tamrakar was raised in SoCal on a steady diet of books and musicals. She finds joy in creating worlds that chase the same sense of sweeping romance and wonder, sometimes with dragons and sometimes with spies, but always telling a tale of how the right people can change a life. She is inspired by looking at relationships in real life and asking herself, "what if?" When she's not writing, she is winning at cards, losing at elaborate board games, or finding inspiration out in the wild with her husband and two daughters, all of whom are delightfully weird. Miranda's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/miranda_writes_author/ MENTIONED ON THE SHOW Starlit & Spellbound https://link.amazon/B05WqBMrH The Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork by Kiri Callaghan https://link.amazon/B0iT4rGD2 Boneyard Key Series by Jen DeLuca https://link.amazon/B031ZMgJm Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts https://link.amazon/B02taL129 Midnight Bayou Movie https://link.amazon/B04PLYt5S Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries by Charlaine Harris https://link.amazon/B02qbcg5M Write with Harte Preptober/Writevember Challenge https://writewithharte.com/preptober-writevember-2026/ TENDER & TEMPTING TALES Tender and Tempting Tales Substack : Subscribe and get a FREE story! https://tenderandtemptingtales.substack.com/ Tender and Tempting Tales on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tendertemptingtales/ Tender and Tempting Tales ARC Team: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/team/56782/tender-and-tempting-tales Calls for Submissions : https://tenderandtemptingtales.substack.com/p/write-for-tender-and-tempting-tales ILLICIT LIAISONS PRODUCED & HOSTED BY Tara Leederman Substack : https://taleederman.substack.com/ Jenna Harte : https://jennaharte.com/ Outline and Show Notes: T.A. Leederman Editing: Jenna Harte
