Romance is probably the fastest to change. It's the most reactive, I think, of all the genres.

One, because we write so fast. We as a collective, I myself do not write that fast,

but people will speak negatively about writing to market, but it's not so cut and dry.

It's a conversation. Like, a romance as a genre is more of a conversation because it moves

so fast and so fluidly. And so many people do it. It's hard to put your finger on it because it's

you know, again, that giant nimbless ball. That was the voice of Jeannie Lynn. Welcome to Fated

mates, everyone. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them.

And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor.

Jeannie Lynn is an amazing romance author, and we were really excited to talk to her as a trailblazer

for what we consider, you know, historical romance often gets really pigeon-hold

into being like 19th century European.

And obviously we, I don't know when this is airing, we will have been talking to some other

romance authors who were blazing trails in different ways.

But we were really excited to talk to Jeannie because she opened up

the door to historical romance set in Asia, but not during the 19th century. So her first book

Butterfly Swords is, and many of her books were set during Tong Dynasty China, which is around

like 7,800 AD.

We asked her some questions about why she was interested in that time period.

And talk about how, like, once somebody kind of goes down an interesting path, other folks can figure, you know, and readers love it, other authors can see a path for themselves.

She is a really fun engaging.

She has great stories.

It's a great interview.

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