713. Enemies to Lovers with Alisha Rai

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My guest this week is podcast community favorite Alisha Rai! We start off catching up on our history of podcasting together, our life changes, and the challenges of making children wear coats.

Then it’s enemies to lovers time! Her new book, Enemies to Lovers is out now, and we both brought the good trowels. We dig into the trope to examine how it works, what the essential elements are, and what can easily go wrong. Along the way we touch on:

How much we miss buddy road trip comedies
The weight of being an elder daughter
And her perspective on the threat of AI to authors

Video is available on our YouTube channel!

Music: purple-planet.com

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

You can find Alisha Rai on her website, AlishaRai.com, and on Instagram, and TikTok.

We also discussed:

Our former joint podcast, LoveStruck Daily
Shin Lim Magic
The Houdini Estate
And Alisha has been a guest on the podcast before! If you like this episode, check out:

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