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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S04.37: Groveling in Romance Novels

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

If there isn’t a grovel, is it even a romance? This week, we’re getting to the bottom of one of our favorite moments in a romance novel — the grovel. Love it or hate it, some of the best loved books of the genre go all in on hero (because let’s face it, it’s almost always the hero) on his knees…and we are here. for. it. We talk about the hows and whys of the grovel, about the reasons we love it, about the difference between a grovel and a grand gesture, and about the books that installed this particular button for us.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sarah, I honestly cannot believe it's been four years and we have not had a full episode on groveling it.

0:06.6

Welcome everyone to Fated Me.

0:09.0

Yeah, we just got to get to this because we're going to get to it.

0:11.2

I'm Sarah McClain.

0:12.4

I read romance novels and I write them.

0:14.7

I'm Jennifer Prokop, a romance reader and editor. And this week, uh, Instagram picked our topic.

0:21.0

Again, listen, this is my new thing let Instagram pick the topics

0:24.8

because let them tell us what to do I love it I'm tired of making decisions

0:28.8

not have to be creative listen what's awesome about this is that, as you know, a few, this has happened a couple times

0:36.9

where like someone on Instagram has messaged us and been like, hey, you should really do an

0:40.0

episode about vampires and them are like, we should do an episode about vampires and then were like we should do an episode about vampires.

0:45.2

But we were recording the other day and I just like took a pick for Instagram and then I was like, oh no, let's do, let's ask them.

0:51.9

And so, so many of you like answered

0:56.2

yeah so fun what you wanted episodes on and some of the topics were great we

1:01.1

went through Jen doesn't know how to use Instagram. I'm sorry I don't

1:03.7

like at all but don't worry if you send us a message I I usually see it and

1:08.3

screenshot it and send it to Jen yes but there were so many good ideas and we went through and I really I really did at one point I was like we should have done we should have gone through these for like a whole episode like yes, yes, just like reading and then being like yes, no.

1:25.0

There was like one where I was like,

1:27.0

um Jen, somebody wants a cliffhanger episode.

1:30.0

And I was like moving on.

1:31.0

We're not doing that. No, listen, nobody wants to hear what I have to really say about cliffhanger, so we're just going to move along.

1:38.0

Move along. No, you all know better than to ask for that.

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