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Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - April 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsIf you’ve always wanted to hear about a romance that takes place within a traveling circus and features a telepathic tiger, hang onto your trapeze bar: Emma from the Substack Restorative Romance and the Reformed Rakes podcast is here to talk about Susan Elizabeth Phillips' “Kiss an Angel,” a con...
Evolution of Romance Novel Cover Design
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsGuest: Sarah Rutherford, a romance reader and Associate Professor of Design at Cleveland State University @sarahatschool on Instagram Highlights: The evolution of romance novel covers from the 1980s to the contemporary post-digital age. The significant role of design elements such as typogra...
Harlequin Kiss & Collecting Category Romance on Categorically Romance Podcast
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - February 19, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsI was a guest on The Categorically Romance Podcast to discuss my category romance collecting addiction, reading some books from Kiss a short-lived Harlequin line from the early 20 teens, and how not being allowed to read romance as a teen actually made me more obsessed with reading romance. Hope...
Covering Romance: John Ennis's Art & Thoughts on Fandom
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - February 12, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsIn this episode, host Andrea Martucci embarks on a journey with Dame Jodie Slaughter to the Covering Romance exhibition. The event showcases romance novel cover art by award-winning artist, John Ennis. Interviews with John Ennis and other attendees, including author Nisha Sharma, romance fan Mar...
Prison Planet Romance: Love in a Hopeless Place
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - January 16, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAn exploration of prison planet romances with Megan Erickson. We discuss Guardian by Emmy Chandler and how it explores issues of consent, agency, and morality through an extreme version of the forced proximity trope. Are these brutal dystopians actually hopeful explorations of humanity and love?...
Romancelandia Holiday Fairies!
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - December 13, 2023 00:32 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsRomancelandia Holiday Fairies 2023! Romancelandia Holiday Fairies is a mutual aid effort for the romance novel reader community to support anyone in the community who could use a little material help with purchasing gifts for themselves, or loved ones this holiday season. Learn more: bit.ly/ho...
Shame
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - November 16, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsIs shame productive? This question guides part 2 of a Whoa!mance/Shelf Love convo about A Lady of the West by Linda Howard as we discuss the paradox of enjoying highly problematic books. We interrogate our feelings of shame, enjoyment, and the importance of critically dissecting the pleasures d...
A Lady of the West: The Rules for Good Women
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - November 09, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsI humbly asked Morgan and Isabeau to help me understand why A Lady of the West by Linda Howard had a chokehold on my young romance-reading imagination, and they delivered. We discuss how this book has rules for good (white) women, and explores Manifest Destiny, settler colonialism, sexuality, vi...
Erotic Romance: A Gentleman in the Streets by Alisha Rai
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - October 17, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe difference between erotic romance and romance is all about feelings, in particular, where you feel them. Shelf Love’s Kink Correspondent, Dame Jodie Slaughter, joins the podcast to discuss A Gentleman in the Streets by Alisha Rai. Only enter if you consensually dare. Shelf Love: NEW! Subst...
Bisexuality in Romance
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - October 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsBisexuality in romance with writer and reviewer Ellie Mae MacGregor (@bisexual_booknerd). When it comes to romance, a genre that explores romantic and sexual desires, what does “good” bisexual representation look like? How can books with or without bisexual representation create worlds that feel...
The Agony and the Candlelight Ecstasy
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - October 03, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsI own 91 Candlelight Ecstasy Romances, so it was high time I read one... then I read another 13 for good measure. In December, 1980, Vivian Stephens launched a new line of contemporary category romance at Dell called Candlelight Ecstasy. The line pushed the envelope when it came to sex and sensu...
Mistress of Mellyn: In love with the man or the house?
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - September 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsMistress of Mellyn by Virginia Holt is often hailed as responsible for kicking off a boom of modern gothics in the mid-20th century. In this crossover with Reformed Rakes, we ask: is this a gothic first and a romance second? Is our plucky main character in love with the man of the house, or just...
Heroines: Creating Identity in Romance
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - September 18, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWhat makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creatin...
The Flame and the Flower (Flames on the Sides of my Flower)
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - September 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsFour romance reading friends embark on a romance history reading project, based on a BookRiot list, and in this episode, two of them — Leigh Kramer and Hannah Hearts romance — have Flames on the Sides of their Face when talking about the Flame and The Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. To keep thi...
Romance Scholars After Hours
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - July 20, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWhat happens when 35 romance scholars walk into a bar, after hours at the IASPR 2023 Romance Revitalised conference? They share their favorite romance scholarship, and why! Shelf Love: NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Email: Andrea@shelflo...
Romance isn’t for everyone
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - June 15, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe fabulous foursome (Morgan & Isabeau from Whoa!mance, Dame Jodie Slaughter, Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love) get meta textual as we reflect on our meta podcasting project on Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. What’s this episode about? Take a guess from this collection of possible episode title...
This Guy? "Dreaming Of You" By Lisa Kleypas [Whoa-llab w/ Shelf Love]
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - May 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThis week, yr grls at long last encounter Derek Craven in "DREAMING OF YOU" by Miss Massachu herself LISA KLEYPAS. It is time for Morgan and Isabeau from Whoa!mance to wade into this collaboration with Shelf Love. You probably already know this - but Sarah is a regency country mouse who is secr...
Dreaming of You: Justice for Joyce
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - May 18, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsLet’s talk about Joyce Ashby from Lisa Kleypas's novel Dreaming of You. We delve into the dichotomous portrayal of Joyce as an irredeemable villainess alongside her foil, the redeemable “hero” Derek Craven. We explore the parallel themes of violence, possessiveness, and animalistic sexuality res...
Autistic Representation in Romance with Amanda Cinelli
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - May 08, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAmanda Cinelli joins me to discuss representation of autistic characters in romance novels. Amanda shares how reading Helen Hoang’s "The Kiss Quotient" played a big part in her realizing that she was autistic, and talks about some other romances with autism representation that she loved. We also...
The Problematic is Calling From Inside the House
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratings"Somebody’s Trying To Kill Me and I think it’s my husband" by Joanna Russ is a brilliant bit of 50 year old scholarship about modern gothics, but I say it applies just as well to romance novels of today. In part one, I explore the theme of passive protagonists in adventure stories. Part 2, the ...
2 North, and 2 South: Romance Catnip
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - March 07, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsPart 2 of the conversation about North and South with Helena Greer. AI generated these action items from the transcript of this episode. AI responses can be inaccurate or misleading. [ ] Schedule a kiss scene between the main characters for modern audiences [ ] Make the male protagonist more s...
Look Back at Me: North and South with Helena Greer
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsTrains! Fruit! Allusions to Hell abound! Victorian industrialist city mortality rates! Writer, sex educator, and librarian Helena Greer is here to discuss North and South. Did the 2004 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1854 serialized novel make the heroine more likable and everyone else les...
When Your Lover Rips Your Father’s Heart Out
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - February 08, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsDame Jodie Slaughter, Feather Fetish Understander, and I recently discussed how The Savage and The Swan speaks the unspoken, what a winged wolf looks like, and whether this book is a metaphor for toxic masculinity and healing generational trauma. This summary below was written by AI using my epi...
Cold(breath) Comfort Reads: January 2023
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsStarting the year off with some cozy re-reads, comfort reads, and short reads to combat the wintery weather and get through winter cold season. I share thoughts on all the books I read in January 2023, including Alice Coldbreath’s Victorian Prizefighter series, A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matt...
Anais Nin, writer of “Female Erotica”?
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - January 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe need to talk about Anais Nin and her erotic short story collection Delta of Venus. Did Anais Nin write "female erotica"? Is there such a thing? Have Things™️ changed much since 1941? Noted smut writer Dame Jodie Slaughter is Shelf Love's international smut history correspondent. She schools u...
Arranged Marriage Trope in Contemporary Indian American Diaspora Romance Novels
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - January 09, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsArranged marriage trope in contemporary Indian American diaspora romance novels with cognitive psychologist and author Sri Savita. Shelf Love: Join the Conversation on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/ShelfLove Sign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | ...
Findom, Care, and the Submissive Billionaire: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - December 23, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsA billionaire romance novel that name drops Citizen’s United only comes along every so often. Carter Sherman, Senior reporter for VICE News, joins me to discuss Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre. We talk about power exchange, heterosexual marriage as a transaction, and subverting the sing...
The Vindication of the Rights of Man in Romance Novels
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAre men in romance novels granted agency & subjectivity, and do readers have the same expectations for male consent as they do for female characters in M/F romance? Lynell from Weekend Reader has some thoughts on mutual consent in romance, especially as she’s binging dark mafia romance with kidn...
Black Romance and Historical Spaces
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - December 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsHear Elysabeth Grace & Katrina Jackson in conversation: a recording from Black Romance and Historical Spaces presentation put on by the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University on November 5th, 2022. This episode is a co-release with Black Romance Podcast, hosted by Dr. Julie Moody-Freeman...
Harlequin’s New Sexy Contemporary Line: Breaking News!
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse - October 21, 2022 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsBreaking News! Harlequin Associate Editor John Jacobson is here to give the scoop on Harlequin’s newest, currently unnamed line of sexy new contemporary romances. We talk about Harlequin’s intentions, hopes, and dreams for the line, and also talk about the unfulfilled… gaps in the market, especi...
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