S07.48: Con Artists & Criminals With Joanna Shupe
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Joanna Shupe joins us this week to celebrate her new book, The Gilded Heiress, and talk about one of our favorite things—baddies with a heart of gold! We talk about the book, about our mutual love of criminals, of noble scoundrels, of con artists and basically anyone willing to do crime in the name of love. We also talk about how everything Gilded Age is back again, which…ugh. We love Joanna and her book – come see us with her in Chicago on August 28th and in Brooklyn on September 9th.
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Notes
- Welcome Joanna Shupe, who writes mafia romance as Mila Finelli. Next week, her historical The Gilded Heiress comes out next week. Earlier this summer, she released her latest in the New York State of Mafia series, Empire of Seduction. You can see her on book tour starting the week of August 26th, including with Jen in Chicago on August 28th.
- Pinkertons & Bow Street Runners were early cops and private investigators. Check out Joanna’s TikTok, which explores how the history of the Gilded Age is very relevant again: Tariffs are pretty bad, actually; the attempt to build an all white town in Arkansas, inspired by Apartheid South Africa, you can learn about
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| 0:00.0 | very exciting day. We have one of our very favorite people here with us. Everyone, welcome to |
| 0:06.3 | Fade Amates. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them. I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance |
| 0:12.0 | reader and editor. And with us today is, introduce yourself. I'm Joanna, I'm Joanna, I'm Joanna. I'm Joanna |
| 0:19.6 | shoe. I'm Joanna Shoe. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm like you do it. It's fine. |
| 0:27.4 | I feel so honored. Like I've been here enough that I don't need an introduction. I love it. |
| 0:33.9 | No, well, we love you very much. And Joanna Shoup is not just Joanna Shoup, you all know, because she is also Milafinelli. |
| 0:44.6 | And we are very proud to have been the place where Joanna and Mila joined the big reveal. The big reveal. |
| 0:45.1 | It was pretty great. |
| 0:47.1 | Mila came out wearing a mustache. |
| 0:50.9 | This was that Fated Mates Live in 2020. |
| 0:58.0 | It must a bad. It was a gag perfect for the audio medium. Exactly. |
| 0:59.0 | But it worked. It worked in person, I think. |
| 1:04.0 | It's true. |
| 1:05.0 | And then we introduced Mila. |
| 1:08.0 | And then we, she revealed herself to gasps from the audience as Joanna Shoup. |
| 1:16.0 | But we feel like we've talked a lot. |
| 1:20.0 | We've done a deep dive of Joanna's books. |
| 1:22.9 | We talk about Joanna's books all the time. |
| 1:25.5 | We talked about, we talk about Mila's books all the time. |
| 1:29.7 | So, uh, you all, it really does, is one of those situations where you don't need an introduction. |
| 1:35.3 | But if I were to give you the introduction, I would say Joanna Schoop slash me the finale, |
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