Okay, so welcome everybody to Fated Meats. I'm Sarah McLean. I write romance novels. I read romance novels. I'm Jen Procop and we have a special guest

with us today. Introduce yourself? I am Melissa Cole and I'm here with my frogs.

I'm a romance writer and a frog enthusiast, I guess.

There you go. and a frog enthusiast I guess.

There you go.

Alyssa lives on an island where there are a lot of singing frogs at night and we are recording at night.

So what you hear are the dulcetones of her island paradise.

So...

I mean, everyone has their nighttime sounds.

They're just different depending on where you live.

I live in the LaGuardia flight path.

See, there you go.

And Patedmates listeners will know that I live in LaGuardia flight path.

But we're super excited because Alyssa is honest to God you guys I think

Alyssa writes the best novellas in romance possibly ever.

Possibly ever.

Possibly ever.

I know I was like it's actually I'm really excited.

So as you've discovered from Sarah's overture there that's what we're going to be talking about this week are romance nobellas.

And I think that they are, I feel like they're kind of like misunderstood or people don't like them.

And I just want everyone to know that they're wrong,

because novellas, to me, what I love about them

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