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Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Meredith was the special guest on this recent episode of “Hot and Bothered,” a podcast about reading – and writing – romance novels. Hear Meredith talk with host Vanessa Zoltan about paranormal romance and what we can learn from vampires, ghouls, and fairies in love. Email us at [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, so this is kind of a tease. We don't have an episode for you this week, but in the meantime, I want to share something with you. |
| 0:07.0 | As an advice columnist, one of the most common questions I get is about how reading other people's problems affects me. I read |
| 0:14.3 | notes from people's problems affects me. I read notes from people who are struggling romantically all day. So you might be wondering, how does it affect me in my own dating life? |
| 0:21.2 | My answer is that I stay positive by reading romance |
| 0:24.8 | novels. They are the anecdote to writing an advice column. They make you believe in |
| 0:29.4 | every happily ever after. And that's why I was thrilled to be a special guest on the |
| 0:34.0 | podcast Hot and Bathered, which is all about romance novels, reading them and |
| 0:38.7 | writing them as a sacred practice. Host Vanessa Zoltan, who you might know from the very popular podcast, |
| 0:44.6 | Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, asked me to come on her show to talk about my favorite genre |
| 0:50.1 | of romance novels, which happens to be paranormal. I got to talk about vampires and |
| 0:55.4 | sexy ghouls and fairies and ghosts. So today as a special treat we have that |
| 1:01.8 | episode for you. |
| 1:03.3 | Definitely listen to more of hot and bothered when you're done, |
| 1:05.8 | and to answer your obvious question, yes, |
| 1:08.2 | we do talk about twilight. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:15.0 | Spoke Media. |
| 1:20.0 | Not sorry, Productions. Hi, I'm Vanessa Zoltan and welcome to Hot and Botherd. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi Julia, hi Vanessa. |
| 1:30.1 | This week's Reddit question is about secrets, which makes me feel smug because you don't have any secrets for me. |
| 1:35.6 | I do, actually. I cut your hair in the middle of the night, and that's why your hair isn't growing as long as you want it to. |
| 1:41.2 | It's because I'm always just out there |
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