S04.19: Passion by Lisa Valdez: The Romance Equivalent of "I Have an Extra Stomach for Dessert"

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’re talking about a historical that we like to think of as the full banana. A descriptor which, now that we’re typing it, really covers a lot of ground. It’s Passion week — we’re talking about how Lisa Valdez shook up the traditional historical world in 2005 when she released this erotic historical featuring a widow and a dude who has an extremely large…you know. We talk about what it means for a romance to be erotic and about how this might also be inspirational. We also talk about this as a marker of a significant shift in the content of romance novels, and ask some questions about basic anatomy. Headphones on for this one, y’all!

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0:00.0	Okay, who picked this book Sarah? I think I did and look I'm not I'm not ashamed.
0:09.0	Sarah I loved it. I loved it. I loved it. Okay, but listen, the number of times of this book where I
0:16.8	resisted going to Google, I mean... No, listen, I still haven't googled it I just I like it because look this is
0:26.7	is the book equivalent of like I have an extra stomach for dessert
0:31.9	that stomach for dessert. That is the science at work here. Oh my God that's so perfect. I think we could just end.
0:43.6	That's, I mean first of all that is absolutely the show title.
0:47.8	Oh, second of all, I really, I mean I have so many things I want to talk I have so many things I want to talk I have so many things I want to talk about but also like I resist
1:01.2	I don't want to look it up. Well because I think I've explained the science already okay.
1:06.5	Welcome to Fate Invates everyone. I'm Sarah McLean I read romance novels and I write them. I'm Jennifer Procop a romance reader and editor.
1:17.0	And this week we're talking about Lisa Valdez's passion.
1:22.0	Which, okay. talking about
1:23.4	Lisa Valdez's passion. Okay, one of the things it's great about Amazon if you are a longtime
1:27.9	Kindle user is it's gonna tell you when you when you when you when you
1:31.2	ordered this. You read this on Kindle? I read this on Kindle in 2010. I did never I never
1:38.0	read this in paper. Okay well I can do one better because I have a first edition.
1:45.0	2,000, Rebecca Romney.
1:48.6	She missed this one for the catalog.
1:51.0	I mean, it's an amazing. I have a first edition print copy of this book which I bought in 2005 in 2005
1:58.8	because it was on a shelf in a bookstore.
2:05.2	And I was like, oh, a new historical author.
2:08.4	Which, those of you who are out there who are not writers
2:11.4	and read books before e-books.
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