S04.05: Radclyffe: Trailblazer

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re continuing our Trailblazer episodes with Radclyffe—author of lesbian romances and founder of the LGBTQIA+ publisher, Bold Strokes Books. We talk about her path to romance as a reader and an author, and a publisher, about the early days of queer romance, about the importance of independent booksellers to the queer community, and about how readers find themselves in books. Thank you to Radclyffe for taking the time to talk to us, and share her story.

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0:00.0	What we're seeing in romance fiction has changed unbelievably from 50 years ago in terms of sexual
0:06.8	content, gender diversity, the issues that are dealt with.
0:11.2	That the power of romance that most people do not appreciate is that you can
0:16.3	write about anything, you can write about all the challenges of human life in a way that readers will find approachable, that they will relate to, they will think about.
0:29.0	There's nothing else that does that.
0:31.0	I'm a little prejudiced but still it's an incredibly powerful
0:36.2	genre. That was Radcliffe the next in our Trail Blazers series. Welcome everyone to Fate of Mates.
0:45.0	I'm Sarah McClain.
0:46.0	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:49.0	And I'm Jennifer Prokop.
0:50.0	I am a romance reader and critic.
0:52.0	And Radcliffe is the founder of BoldStrocks Books, which is an important LGBTQ publisher.
1:01.0	She is a writer and one of the important and long time voices for
1:08.8	lesbian and queer romance. Today we'll be talking about her journey to romance the founding of
1:15.4	bold stroke books why it is important for LGBTQ publishers to exist and how the romance landscape for queer literature, queer
1:26.1	bookstores, and queer romance has changed in the many years that she has been
1:31.0	reading, writing, and publishing.
1:33.0	Here's our conversation.
1:35.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:40.0	Radcliffe, we're thrilled to have you.
1:41.0	Well, thank you for asking me. I'm really glad to be here. So we're thrilled to have you. Well thank you for asking me I'm really glad to be here.
1:44.0	So we're really interested in journeys and we've talked so much over the years about
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