S04.11: Vincent Virga: Trailblazer

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re continuing our Trailblazer episodes with Vincent Virga—author of the Gaywyck trilogy, the first m/m gothic romance, and one of the first m/m romances ending with a happily ever after. He talks about writing gay romance and about the way reading about love and happiness change readers lives. He also shares rich, wonderful stories about his vibrant life as a picture editor in publishing, about the literary set in New York City in the 70s and 80s, about writing during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, about the times in a writer’s life when the words don’t come easily, and about the times when they can’t be stopped. We are honored and so grateful that Vincent took the time to speak with us, and we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.

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0:00.0	Genres have no gender, really.
0:03.0	I mean, if you look at them closely,
0:06.5	the mysteries revolve around behavior
0:11.6	and in Jane Eyre, the wonder of Jane Eyre is the book is about
0:17.8	finding out that I am my own person.
0:22.2	When Jane says I can take care of myself, the book was banned, the book was
0:30.8	condemned in pulpit. The book is considered revolutionary art because I can take care of myself.
0:43.0	That was the voice of Vincent Virga, the author of Gewick, which is the first modern male-male-male-gothic romance,
0:51.0	published by Avon in 1980.
0:54.0	This is an amazing conversation.
0:56.2	Oh, it's so good.
0:58.1	It's so good.
0:59.2	Every conversation we have had
1:01.3	has been so different and so varied but talking to Vincent
1:04.8	who was really writing a romance kind of outside of both like Rome the romance
1:12.1	community but also outside of the literary community but
1:15.7	deeply rooted in the gay community makes for a really interesting conversation
1:21.0	he is going to talk about his lifelong relationship with his partner Jimmy.
1:27.8	Jimmy.
1:28.8	Jimmy.
1:29.8	Hey Jimmy, we love you.
1:30.8	We love Jimmy.
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