Working: Jasmine Guillory’s Romance Novels Show Realistic Characters Falling in Love

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🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, host June Thomas digs into the romance genre with bestselling author Jasmine Guillory, who started her career as a lawyer and then went on to release five novels including Party of Two, which was released on June 23. In the interview, Jasmine talks through her writing process and shares how she was able to publish five novels in such a short period of time. She also explains why her characters don’t fit into the usual tropes of the romance genre. After the interview June and co-host Rumaan Alam talk about the comforting nature of genre fiction. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected]. And if you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	Thank you. The hardest thing for me in figuring out a book often is why does this person
1:06.5	fall in love with that person and vice versa and so that is the thing that I'm
1:10.9	often going towards is like who are these people why do they care about each other why do they have
1:17.2	this connection why would people root for them them Welcome back to working. I'm your host Ramana Law. And I'm your other host June Thomas.
1:31.0	And the voice that we just heard belongs to Jasmine Gillery.
1:35.0	Jasmine is a writer and hers is a name you're going to see a lot this summer
1:39.4	if your family is anything like mine and spends every free moment at the beach.
1:44.4	Jasmine's new book is called Party of Two, and I just know I'm going to see it the next time
1:49.1	that my family trucks out to the shore.
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