S04.14: Elda Minger: Trailblazer

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The Trailblazer series continues this week with Elda Minger—author of contemporary and historical romances, including Untamed Heart, which is the first contemporary romance to feature condom use on the page. Elda talks about writing for Vivian Stephens, about writing about women’s bodies, about reproductive choice and about the way romance made space for women during the 70s and 80s. She shares a collection of gorgeous stories about her life as a reader and writer (and a particularly wonderful detour as a bookseller). About the boom of category and contemporary romance in the 1980s, and about the way writing made her who she is. We are thrilled to have found Elda, and that she took time to speak with us and share her wonderful perspective on the genre with us. We can’t think of a better week to share this episode with you.

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0:00.0	thinking about those early days, it actually brought me such a sense of joy.
0:05.0	And I was so grateful that I lived through it and I was so grateful that I got to have this
0:11.0	career. I still have this career where most of the people I know my
0:14.9	contemporaries they hate their jobs they're now retiring they're kind of not knowing what
0:19.5	to do they're having bad retirements because they were like all structured going to job coming home you know and
0:25.1	I've been so darn lucky because I literally would get up make a cup of coffee, walk to my desk,
0:32.4	start creating with all these people, and with all my animals,
0:37.6	you know, my family, just home, I'm a real home body too, and I just loved it it and then all I ever wanted and it's funny because people
0:45.8	always say do you think you're a big success all I ever wanted was to give to readers
0:51.5	what writers gave to me.
0:53.8	That was it and I got that.
0:58.5	That was the voice of Elda Minger.
1:01.6	Author of Untamed Heart, which is known in romance history as the first contemporary romance to feature
1:09.0	condiments on the page.
1:11.0	Elda was edited by Vivian Stephen.
1:13.7	She tells the story of working with Vivian and also Carolyn Nichols, another storied romance
1:19.6	editor, and amazing, amazing perspective on Woody Wiss on the early days of romance and what it was like
1:30.4	to be a part of a company of women for which she is still really proud to be part of.
1:37.2	This one is pretty perfect.
1:41.1	Welcome to Fated Meats, everyone.
1:43.3	I'm Sarah McLean.
1:44.3	I read romances and I write them.
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