Romancing the Threshold

<p>Sharon Lynn Fisher writes cozy gothic romances set in Victorian England: stories full of tea, herbs, cottage witchcraft, and heroines who can't stop asking questions. </p><p>In this conversation, we talk about what...

<p>When AI arrived, most people chose a side — fear or adoration.</p><p>Cassie Alexander chose a third way: curiosity.</p><p>Romance author, nurse, monster-romance pioneer — she's spent her career writing about the...

<p>In this episode of Romancing the Threshold, Vanessa sits down with author Layla Fae for a conversation that moves through creativity, desire, monster romance, and the unexpected ways we meet change in a world that...

<p>While systems grip their dying world, we're midwifing what's being born through every story we love. In this solo episode, I weave together childhood under dictatorship, the ancient myth of Proteus, and how we're...

<p>In this intimate conversation, Vanessa sits with her friend Jessiemarie to explore an unexpected threshold space: the adult retail shop. Drawing from her experience helping customers navigate their most vulnerable...

<p>Celtic shaman and author Jane Burns illuminates how threshold spaces—those uncomfortable in-between times we rush through—are actually portals of creative power where the ancient Celts knew magic lived. In this rich...

<p>A solo episode closing out a transformative year. After cataloging 50 monsters across 125 romance novels, seven creatures emerged as threshold guides through grief and reclamation. These aren't just steamy reads but...

<p>Rune reader and elder Ingrid Kincaid explores how every threshold demands sacrifice and why the stories we tell about change shape our experience of it. We discuss the gift of the liminal space, why resistance to...

<p>When an avalanche buries your world, what gets revealed? Author Ella Larson joins me to explore how her Hidden Folk series teaches us to meet catastrophic change with curiosity rather than with the tension of 'white...

<p>In this anniversary‑week episode, my husband Jason steps into my world of romance novels—book boyfriends, monster lovers, and all. Far from his usual orbit of music and design, he shares his grounded take on desire...

<p>In this episode of Romancing the Threshold, I’m joined by astrologer and storyteller Brian Clark to explore the threshold as both pause and passage — a place of shedding, becoming, and crossing into the unknown...

<p>In this first episode of Romancing the Threshold, I invite you into the charged space of the in‑between—the moment before the door opens. I share the inspiration behind the podcast, how it becomes the hearth where On...