Spicy Romance Books: The Good, The Bad, and the Cringe

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Things are heating up on What The Hype as we dive into the world of smut in romance and romantasy! This week, Laura and Pam are joined by special guest and romance author, Jennifer Hennessy (‘Degrees of Engagement’), to discuss spicy scenes in romance and romantasy reads. There’s no denying that there’s been an uptick in interest in spicy reads thanks to BookTok, but what makes for a good steamy moment while reading? And more importantly, what gives us the ick and automatically takes us out of the moment? Plus, Jen offers up some insider insight into the world of publishing, the use of euphemisms, and why she thinks smut can be hit or miss for readers.Keep up with Jennifer Hennessy online via Twitter (X) and Instagram, and check out her books right here on her website! https://x.com/jennifercarolyn https://www.instagram.com/jennifercarolyn/ https://www.jennifer-hennessy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tell me all about your latest succession.
0:05.0	Are you a fan, got guilty pleasure,
0:08.0	year your confessions.
0:10.0	What the hype?
0:12.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. What? What the high? What the high?
0:15.0	Take me from Vetchum.
0:18.0	What the high?
0:20.0	What the high? What the hype? What the hype?
0:25.0	Welcome back to What the hype.
0:29.0	Welcome back to What the Hype Podcast, where this week things are getting a little bit spicy as we start to dive into the world of smut in romance.
0:38.0	I'm Pamela and I'll be your host today along with Laura who's also here.
0:42.0	Hey Laura, how's it going?
0:43.7	Hello, I'm great and I'm so excited for this discussion.
0:47.4	I've been looking forward to it all day.
0:49.4	Me too.
0:50.7	We've been wanting to do an episode like this for so long and what the hype is like the perfect vessel for it and I'm so excited to announce that we also have a fantastic guest host joining us this week as well. We have author Jennifer Hennessy who has written a number of
1:05.0	fantastic young adult romance books but she also recently published her first
1:09.3	new adult romance book so she's perfectly primed to weigh in on Smut in this genre and like how it's really kind of taken off.
1:18.8	I feel like romance never really goes away but I think it's safe to say smut is having like a moment in the
1:24.0	spotlight right now thanks to book talk and all that good stuff right?
1:28.1	Absolutely and I'm so happy to be here with you guys I'm so excited to talk all
1:32.1	things smutty.
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