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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S06.50: Daddy Issues (not the fun kind) with Christopher Rice

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We're back with Christopher Rice celebrating one of the longest running themes in romance: Daddy Issues (not the good kind)! Christopher writes romance under the pen name C. Travis Rice, and today, we're talking about his recent banger, Sapphire Dawn. We talk about the longstanding history of characters with terrible fathers, about why romance seems to love a bad dad, about our favorite characters with terrible fathers, and about why terrible fathers make the best heroes? (we know! it's problematic!) All that, and we're talking about Nora Roberts and (gasp!) Janet Dailey!

We're coming up on the end of Season 6 (what?! how!?), and so incredibly grateful to you for listening. If you'd like more romance chatter, we encourage you to join our patreon, where you get another episode from us each month, and access to the incredible readers and listeners and brilliant people on the Fated Mates discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.

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The Notes

  • Welcome author Christopher Rice who writes gay romance as C. Travis Rice. His current series is called Sapphire Cove, and his most recent release is Sapphire Dawn. Christopher and his best friend Eric Shawn Quinn host a podcast called The Dinner Party Show. 
    • The great

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0:00.0

I told Eric that we were recording with Chris again today and he was like, oh he's great, this one will be good.

0:08.0

Which made me think to myself like, have we had like, oh, they're Terribles?

0:13.0

So, I'm not going to press.

0:16.0

Let's not air that publicly, Sarah.

0:18.0

Hello, this is a man saying, oh good, a man is going to be fun.

0:24.7

I get to listen to man, thanks.

0:27.4

Just wait till he finds out where we go with this.

0:31.0

Right, exactly. So why don't you introduce yourself? I am Christopher Rice,

0:37.4

aka C. Travis Rice, practitioner of male-male,

0:41.5

steamy spicy romances.

0:43.2

It's Christopher Rice.

0:44.7

I wrote all manner of crap.

0:46.3

I just wrote whatever they paid me for.

0:48.1

I just put it all that napkins, grocery lists.

0:52.2

No. Mostly thrillers and mysteries up until,

0:55.0

I would say around 2014 Romance Land

0:58.8

got its hooks in me and they've never,

1:01.4

they've never entirely come out.

1:04.0

So I have a quite well wait first of all welcome everyone to Fated mates.

1:08.0

We're so excited to be here with Christopher Rice slash see Travis Rice but for our purposes we're going to call you what are we going to call you Chris like that that guy the guy who's here today

1:21.1

we're gonna call you Christopher Rice slash Chris.

1:24.0

Yes, that sounds perfect.

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