S05.21: That's So (Derek) Craven

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It’s Derek Craven Day 2023—empirically the best romance holiday of February—and we’re celebrating in traditional fashion by talking about why there are two types of Lisa Kleypas readers: The ones who think Derek Craven is the best hero, and the ones who are wrong. If you’ve been with us for any length of time at all, you know we are mildly obsessed with Lisa Kleypas’s heroes, her writing, the way she writes objects into her books as talismans of emotion, and the way she injects excellent romance directly into our veins every single time. This year, to celebrate this most high holy of romance days, we asked all of you to help us by filling up a Google spreadsheet with things other Kleypas heroes do in their books…because while St. Vincent and Winterborne will never get a holiday all to themselves, they’re pretty great dudes. Enjoy, friends. It’s -11 degrees on the East Coast, so we give you permission to hang out in bed all day and read a book by Lisa Kleypas.

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0:00.0	Happy Derek Craven Day, Jen.
0:02.0	Sarah, the problem with inventing a holiday is then you have to figure out,
0:05.6	you have to celebrate it.
0:06.6	To celebrate it.
0:07.6	Last year we are all coy.
0:09.1	We were like, for those of you, I'm just going to quietly celebrate at home. This year we were like, oh no, it's back.
0:18.6	Listen, I did an event at East City Books last week.
0:22.8	Oh, I want to talk about this event.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:25.3	I didn't invent at East City Books last week with Kate Claiborne
0:27.7	to celebrate Georgie all along, which those of you who listen weekly,
0:30.7	know two weeks ago we did an episode with Kate to celebrate Georgie and at this
0:35.0	event it was a who, first of all a who's who of amazing. Romance novelists were at this event.
0:41.3	I mean East City has a lock and it was Kate and me and
0:45.5	Tracy Livacy and Andy J Christopher and Nicky Payne and Timothy Janofsky the
0:51.9	author of
0:52.6	A You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince.
0:54.4	I've heard so many good things about that book.
0:56.3	I started it yesterday, it's a delight.
0:59.4	Anyway, it was awesome.
1:01.4	And as we were talking talking somebody in the audience asked about just how or
1:06.7	maybe it was Nicky who asked about you know how Kate delves you know deeply into her characters,
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