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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S04.34: Celebrity Romance Novels

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We’re tackling one of Sarah’s favorite tropes this week — the celebrity romance! We talk about all the ways that her buttons were installed (thanks Judith McNaught) and about how rare movie stars are in romance even now, all these years later. We discuss The Chrises, the appeal of celebrity/normal person pairings, the difference between film/tv romance and rockstar/sports star romance, and about why Americans especially love a celebrity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Boy, it's been a week. No shit. That's a brain court.

0:05.3

Fuck those people.

0:06.6

Yeah.

0:07.6

A headphones in I guess you guys.

0:10.4

You know, we're not going to talk too much about it.

0:11.9

I think just because like all of us I think it's really overwhelming

0:16.1

I know you and Kelly are working on reactivating faded states. Wait

0:21.6

Welcome everyone to Fated Mates. I'm Sarah McClain. I read romance novels and I write them.

0:29.0

And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance

0:33.4

reader and editor. And this week's episode is going to be about romance novels.

0:36.1

So sorry for those of you who are really hoping for a big mad episode. We just don't.

0:40.5

We're almost too mad, right? Too mad to get real mad, to perform mad. But

0:49.8

those of you who are new to the new to the show, we, during the election in 2020, we did a bunch of phone banking.

1:01.0

We pulled you guys together to phone bank to write postcards to be active.

1:06.3

That is called Fated States and there will be much more information about how we're going

1:12.3

to get involved this year to protect reproductive

1:16.2

rights in America and lots of other things too.

1:19.4

Well yeah, because one of the things that we are, I think everybody's seeing right now is like, you know,

1:24.4

it just feels like you're fighting on every front. But feeling like you're fighting on every front

1:28.7

is really exhausting and overwhelming. So you have to pick a front that you feel like you can fight on.

1:35.0

So you know to all of you doing like big and little things and so we are going to be

1:41.0

talking about some of those over the next couple weeks.

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