Romance is probably the fastest to change. It's the most reactive, I think, of all the genres.

One, because we write so fast. We as a collective, I myself do not write that fast,

but people will speak negatively about writing to market, but it's not so cut and dry.

It's a conversation, like a romance as a genre is more of a conversation because it moves so fast and so fluidly and so many people do it.

It's hard to put your finger on it because it's, you know, again, that giant nibless bulb.

That was the voice of Jeannie Lynn.

Welcome to Fated Mates, everyone.

I'm Sarah McClain. I read romance novels and I write them.

And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor.

Jeannie Lynn is an amazing romance author and we were really excited to talk to her as a trailblazer for what we consider, you know, historical romance often gets really pigeon told

into being like 19th century European. And obviously we, I don't know when this is airing we will be talking to some other romance

authors who were blazing trails in different ways but we were really excited to talk to

Jeannie because she opened up the door to historical romance set in Asia but not during the 19th century.

So her first book Butterfly Swords is, and many of her books were set during Tang Dynasty China, which is around like 7, 800 a.

We asked her some questions about why she was interested in that time period and talk about how like once somebody kind of goes

down an interesting path, other folks can figure,

you know, and readers love it.

Other authors can see a path for themselves. She is a really fun engaging. She has great

stories. Great interview. It's a great interview and we think that you are going to really enjoy hearing Jeannie's past romance?

One thing that I just, that didn't come up in the conversation and I want to just say before we start

is that as much as we love Butterfly Swords

and have talked about it on multiple interestials,

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