S06.48: Wicked and the Wallflower: The Bareknuckle Bastards Begin
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
It's coming up on the end of Season 6, and that means we're talking about one of Sarah's books! We're finishing up (or beginning?) the Bareknuckle Bastards series today with a deep dive of Sarah's Wicked and the Wallflower, the first in her Bareknuckle Bastards series--part Rumplestiltskin retelling, part Peaky Blinders fic, all justifiable face punching and ode to the darkness. This is the series she loves the best, and Jen just might agree.
You can get Wicked and the Wallflower in print, ebook and audiobook at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or wherever you get your books. It's also currently free with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
The Books
- Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
- Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean
- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean
- The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean
The Notes
Wicked and the Wallflower was so early in the life of the podcast that we didn’t do a deep dive, so here you go! You can follow up by listening to deep dives of Brazen and the Beast and Daring and the Duke, both available wherever you get your books, and free with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
Last week, Sarah and Jen were at Steamy Lit Con in Anaheim. There was a terrific panel on the 30th anniversary of the publication of Beverly Jenkins's Night Song. Artist Shannon Donahue made a very cool sketch of the panel, which along with Beverly Jenkins included Jeanne Lin, Adriana Herrera, Diana Quincy, and Alyssa Cole.
Some of the influences on Wicked and the Wallflower include the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin, Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders, the 99% Invisible podcast about Perfect Security, the Disney movie Frozen, and Gavin Weightman's The Frozen Water Trade.
The Sponsors
- Kayla Grosse, author of Silver Foxed, available in print, ebook, and audiobook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- 1001 Dark Nights, publishers of Lexi Blake's The Bodyguard and the Bombshell, available in print, ebook, and audiobook from Amazon
- Leslie Hachtel, author of Come Back to Me, available in print, ebook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- Serena Akeroyd, author of Broken, available in print, ebook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
The Rest
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, together again. We're at Live, Live to Tape. That's what they call this. Yes. |
| 0:06.4 | Live on the scene of Steamy Litcon. We are. We are at Steamy Lit and it's very cool. It's very busy. |
| 0:14.1 | Yeah, it's really busy. |
| 0:16.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:17.1 | So you did a panel today. |
| 0:19.1 | I did a panel this morning with to celebrate 30 years of Beverly Jenkins's night song. |
| 0:26.6 | It's their 30th anniversary of that book. |
| 0:30.8 | And the panel was about historical romance and it included a bunch of trailblazers. |
| 0:38.0 | It was really cool. |
| 0:40.0 | It was Bev and then Adriana Herrera and Diana Quincy and Jeannie Lynn and |
| 0:48.4 | Alyssa Cole and I moderated and it was really amazing. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, the room was packed, there were so many people. |
| 0:56.0 | It was huge and packed. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, I mean to the point where usually a lot of, |
| 1:01.6 | so if you've never been to a romance conference before there's |
| 1:05.2 | usually like a couple different things that happen right so there's the signings |
| 1:08.8 | which is you know of course everybody in a big room and you get to go up to different tables and get book signs and |
| 1:14.8 | then there's you know keynotes which is kind of like everybody seeing the same thing at |
| 1:18.0 | the same time but then there's these breakout sessions and usually they are they can be small I mean you know what I mean like a 40 or 50 |
| 1:26.6 | people yeah and this room we walked in and it was huge and I wow, this is a really big room. |
| 1:34.6 | I hope everybody remembers to sit in the front |
| 1:36.6 | and then it filled up. |
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