S02.4: Novellas with Alyssa Cole

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week we’re talking about novellas with one of the best novella writers around—Alyssa Cole. Join us, along with Alyssa’s tree frogs, to talk about why she loves the novella format, the trick to writing a short romance, and her upcoming Audible original!

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0:00.0	Okay.
0:12.7	So welcome everybody to Fated Mates.
0:17.6	I'm Sarah McLean.
0:19.5	I write romance novels.
0:20.6	I read romance novels. I'm Sarah McLean. I write romance novels. I read romance novels. I'm Jen Procop, and we have a special
0:26.8	guest with us today. Introduce yourself. Um, I am Alyssa Cole, and I'm here with my frogs.
0:38.8	I'm a romance writer and a frog enthusiast, I guess.
0:43.3	There you go.
0:45.3	Alyssa lives on an island where there are a lot of singing frogs at night, and we are recording at night.
0:51.4	So what you hear are the dulcet tones of her island paradise.
0:57.8	I mean, everyone has their nighttime sounds. They're just different depending on where you live.
1:02.8	I live in the LaGuardia flight path. See, there you go. And Fated Mates listeners will know that I live in the LaGuardia of life.
1:13.2	But we're super excited because Alyssa is honest to God, you guys.
1:18.8	I think Alyssa Cole writes the best novellas in romance.
1:23.3	Possibly ever.
1:25.1	Possibly ever.
1:26.7	I know.
1:27.6	I was like, it's actually I'm really excited.
1:29.6	So as you've discovered from Sarah's overture there, that's what we're going to be talking
1:33.9	about this week are romance novellas.
1:36.3	And I think that they are, I feel like they're kind of like misunderstood or people
1:41.3	don't like them.
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