Bonus Episode || From the Front Porch Live with Kerry Winfrey & R. Eric Thomas

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a special treat for you: a recording of our live show from our summer Reader Retreat this past weekend! In this episode, Annie, Hunter, and Ashley are joined by extra-special guests and authors Kerry Winfrey and R. Eric Thomas to do a snake draft of their favorite romcom tropes. Silliness and hilarity ensues. Enjoy! To purchase books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Preorder Kerry Winfrey’s new book, Faking Christmas. (Releases September 26) Preorder R. Eric Thomas’ new book, Congratulations, The Best is Over! (Releases August 8) If you’re interested in attending a future Reader Retreat, the best way to get tickets is to join our Patreon community. The Bookshelf’s podcast, From the Front Porch, has a bookish Patreon community you can join for $5, $20, or $50 a month. Our Patreon supporters are the first to access tickets, which sell fast! Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch to join and stay tuned for our next Reader Retreat dates. From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Summer is a wonderful time to see Thomasville, Georgia! If it’s time to hit the road for a quick getaway, we’re exactly what you’re looking for! You can rekindle your spark, explore historical sites, indulge in dining out, shop at amazing independent stores, and finally relax and unwind. There’s no better getaway than Thomasville! Whether you live close by or are passing through, we hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia – it’s worth the trip! Plan your visit at ThomasvilleGa.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	I'm Evie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an infinite bookstore in view of downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:34.0	And this week I'm talking romance tropes with three very special guests, and we're doing a live.
0:40.0	We've got a bunch of women of shelf-by-shelf things.
0:44.0	And we have guest authors, our Eric Thomas, and Carrie Woodfree.
0:52.0	Welcome to the show, everybody.
0:54.0	Thank you. This is a new format for us.
0:56.0	Normally, I am joined by one, maybe two guests if I'm lucky.
1:00.0	But tonight there are a variety of voices.
1:02.0	So I wanted to think about what we could talk about, and I'm so grateful to Caroline, our marketing manager,
1:08.0	because I needed a topic that we could all talk about.
1:12.0	And you've already, during Reader Street Weekend, our authors, Carrie and Eric had done readings for us.
1:16.0	So I was trying to think.
1:18.0	But I subscribed to both of your newsletters.
1:20.0	I feel like you're both pop culture efficient autos.
1:22.0	I feel right that's accurate.
1:24.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:26.0	So I thought something around rompoms, and then Caroline thought what about a draft?
1:32.0	A fantasy draft.
1:34.0	So we are doing a fantasy draft of our favorite romantic comedy tropes.
1:38.0	Now, if you're like anyone in my life, you don't know any of those words.
1:44.0	So basically, I feel like Carrie, you are our romantic comedy writer.
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