Gilmore To Read: Rebecca Ross’s Newsroom Rivals Write Their Way To A Divine Romance

Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh

Leisure, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Hi book besties, Another episode of Gilmore to Read, but for this one---let's time travel to the end of 2023 when I had a conversation with the author of the Reading is Sexy pick for *November 2023* Rebecca Ross!

Rebecca Ross is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows, a duology set during WWI-esque war of the gods following two journalists connected by magical typewriters.

In this episode, Rebecca and I talk about what she writes in her brainstorming journal, why she waited until she was an adult to watch Gilmore girls for the first time, and how her critique partner convinced her the world (and the story of Divine Rivals) needed a Roman C. Kitt POV.

In February, Reading Is Sexy is reading This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan and Where You Read, I Will Follow is continuing Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi y'all, welcome back to Gilmore to Read. I'm your host, Haley, and for today's episode,
0:13.6	we are throwing it back into the archives a bit with one of my favorite conversations
0:17.8	I've had on Gilmore to Read with Miss Rebecca Ross. But before I do,
0:21.8	I want to mention that you should join the book club over on Patreon. It's free to join, and I post
0:26.7	all of the book clubs over there before I announce them on Instagram. Like for February and Reading
0:31.6	is Sexy, our Romance Book Club, we're reading This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan, who is one of
0:36.3	my favorite authors. I cannot wait for y'all
0:38.4	to read a Kennedy Ryan book, but I'd have read a Patreon to find out why when I read this book,
0:43.3	I saw how this romance could have been a little bit of Emily and Richard in season four. Very excited
0:49.3	to read that with y'all. I did mention this episode is coming out of the archive, so I wanted to
0:54.1	give some backstory for it.
0:55.5	It was recorded during the St. Martin's Press Boycott in late 2023, and I ultimately decided
1:00.7	not to publish it to be in solidarity with readers for accountability. Once they called for the end
1:05.8	of the boycott, I wanted to post it, but I had to wait until a month I could add it to our
1:09.6	editor's workload because we had so many episodes we were releasing and she was editing. But here we finally are.
1:16.9	It really is perfect timing because this episode was meant to be released at the end of the year
1:20.5	in 2023, start of 2024, so the New Year vibes still fit, but most especially because
1:26.8	Rebecca Ross just announced a new book
1:28.9	set in the same world as Devine Rav was in Ruth's files.
1:32.3	Is anyone as excited as I am for Wild Reverence?
1:35.9	That's the title of her book coming out in September 2025.
1:38.9	An excitement truly is an understatement.
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