Forced Proximity
Spoilers beware! Forced Proximity with self-certified professional fangirl Kate Whitley is bringing you up close and personal with your favorite (and maybe not so favorite) romance books. Unfiltered and real, this podcast rates, reviews, and rips apart Kate’s current romance reads while remaining tropey, funny, and as always, sex positive.
Episodes

Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP. THIS EPISODE'S BOOK NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION AFTER IT'S BLOWN THE F UP AND I NEED TO SCREAM ABOUT WITH ALL OF YOU!!!
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Rom-com lovers unite, this black cat x golden retriever fake dating novel by Wattpad sensation Emma Miller is a must read!
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
ALRIGHT BESTIES IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT ULTIMATE BOOK BF RYAN SHAY. If it wasn't obvious from the previous episode, this basketball romance quickly became one of my all time faves...Liz Tomforde you've done it again!
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
The first in the Windy City series, Mile High is a steamy hockey romance that Kate is honestly mad no one forced her to read sooner...
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
#BookTok blew this one up...and this week I'm telling ya'll if it really was worth the hype... (Oh AND the amount of tears I ugly cried over the last five chapters at 2 am!)
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
The fanfiction turned published romance book craze is REAL YA'LL. And Kate loves it, but did she love this specific book centered around two popular Stranger Things characters?
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
You either love it, or you hate it - Happy Place by Emily Henry is giving us a full-fledged second chance romance trope...and I'm here for it!
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
It's rich people problems o'clock! And resident billionaire CEO boyfriend expert Ana Huang is serving up another dish of it on today's episode, but is it as good as host Kate hoped?
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
Callahan Kane has more money than God and Lana Castillo has been hurt by him one too many times. But when they get a second-chance, who knows what could happen...
Join romance book mega-fan and host Kate Whitley as she breaks down her own thoughts and feelings about this book.

Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Handsome, funny, vulnerable ghost AND this book feels like a warm hug? Sign! Me! Up! Putting her own fears about death aside, on today's episode Kate is deep-diving into the spooky, yet romantic book, The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston.