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Patreon Preview #312: Steel Yourself

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

So the question I want to ask you, too, what is your relationship to the author and their work, Danielle Steele?

0:10.4

Do you know, when I say Danielle Steele, do you know who that is?

0:13.0

I think of mass market paperback romance novels.

0:17.4

Yeah, I think of like airport books.

0:19.2

I've never, I wouldn't be able to tell you a title or, uh, style or like,

0:25.5

even if it's been, any of them have been turned into movies or anything.

0:29.2

Now, in Adel said romance, and I think that that's not wrong.

0:33.2

And I have also never read a Danielle Steele book.

0:35.4

But I think that Danielle Steele is like a, it's so interesting because I think the

0:40.5

romance genre, Daniel Steele has been as prolific as she's been writing.

0:45.8

I think her first book that she published was like in the 70s.

0:49.3

He's the Stephen King of Smut.

0:51.4

Well, but it's not smut because I think a lot of, I think a lot of, Stephen King,

0:56.3

smut type into porn.com. I think a lot of the modern day, I don't know, what are you even,

1:06.2

you even call it, like that kind of smut, like the trashy nature of things, is like explicitly sexual.

1:12.7

And I don't think that Daniel Steele, I think her thing is like more romance.

1:17.4

Romance, but also not even like always necessarily romance.

1:21.7

Like sometimes it's just like a contemporary fiction.

1:25.4

But it's, and I've also heard that some of her stuff is like sad or like has like, there's

1:31.1

like real struggle to it, which is not the same as like romance.

1:36.2

Yeah.

1:36.5

I feel like nowadays when you say romance, it's kind of loaded and people think like,

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