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Guest: Sarah Rutherford, a romance reader and Associate Professor of Design at Cleveland State University
@sarahatschool on Instagram
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The evolution of romance novel covers from the 1980s to the contemporary post-digital age.The significant role of design elements such as typography, color, and imagery in conveying the genre and themes of romance novels.The impact of digital publishing on cover designs, including the preference for stock photography and simplified imagery.How cover designs serve as a branding tool for books and how they contribute to personal branding for readers and collectors.Sarah shares anecdotes about identifying and collecting romance novels based on their covers, highlighting the emotional and aesthetic appeal of cover art.Shelf Love:
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I was a guest on The Categorically Romance Podcast to discuss my category romance collecting addiction, reading some books from Kiss a short-lived Harlequin line from the early 20 teens, and how not being allowed to read romance as a teen actually made me more obsessed with reading romance. Hope you enjoy this episode and I definitely recommend that you check out the Categorically Romance Podcast if you're not already listening.
We read The One that Got Away by Kelly Hunter (Kiss #1) and If You Can't Stand the Heat by Joss Wood.
Learn more about The Categorically Romance Podcast: https://linktr.ee/TheCategoricallyRomancePodcast
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In this episode, host Andrea Martucci embarks on a journey with Dame Jodie Slaughter to the Covering Romance exhibition. The event showcases romance novel cover art by award-winning artist, John Ennis. Interviews with John Ennis and other attendees, including author Nisha Sharma, romance fan Mary Lynne Nielsen, and Fin, owner of Wolf and Kron books, a genre bookstore. Andrea purchases several pieces of cover art and reflects with Jodie on the cultural significance of fandom and passion for the genre.
Fellow Traveler: Dame Jodie Slaughter, International Fandom Criticizer
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An exploration of prison planet romances with Megan Erickson. We discuss Guardian by Emmy Chandler and how it explores issues of consent, agency, and morality through an extreme version of the forced proximity trope. Are these brutal dystopians actually hopeful explorations of humanity and love?
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Romancelandia Holiday Fairies 2023!
Romancelandia Holiday Fairies is a mutual aid effort for the romance novel reader community to support anyone in the community who could use a little material help with purchasing gifts for themselves, or loved ones this holiday season. Learn more:
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Is shame productive? This question guides part 2 of a Whoa!mance/Shelf Love convo about A Lady of the West by Linda Howard as we discuss the paradox of enjoying highly problematic books.
We interrogate our feelings of shame, enjoyment, and the importance of critically dissecting the pleasures derived from reading, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel.
Look at your society, look at your life! Along with me and Whoa!mance, in this crossover episode.
Shelf Love:
NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guests: Whoa!mance (Morgan and Isabeau)
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Listen to part 1 of this episode: episode 150 Shelf Love
Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
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Episode 089 to Problematize Romance
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108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular)
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I humbly asked Morgan and Isabeau to help me understand why A Lady of the West by Linda Howard had a chokehold on my young romance-reading imagination, and they delivered. We discuss how this book has rules for good (white) women, and explores Manifest Destiny, settler colonialism, sexuality, violence, violent sexuality, and being a desirable (white) woman.
Button up your white high-necked blouse and gallop on a virile stallion into the wild west with Whoa!mance, in this crossover episode.
Shelf Love:
NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guests: Whoa!mance (Morgan and Isabeau)
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website | Listen on any podcast app!
Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirreand
Episode 089 to Problematize Romanceand
108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular)Shelf Love:
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The difference between erotic romance and romance is all about feelings, in particular, where you feel them. Shelf Love’s Kink Correspondent, Dame Jodie Slaughter, joins the podcast to discuss A Gentleman in the Streets by Alisha Rai. Only enter if you consensually dare.
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guest: Dame Jodie Slaughter, Shelf Love’s Kink Correspondent
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Bisexuality in romance with writer and reviewer Ellie Mae MacGregor (@bisexual_booknerd). When it comes to romance, a genre that explores romantic and sexual desires, what does “good” bisexual representation look like? How can books with or without bisexual representation create worlds that feel safe for bisexual readers?
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guest: Ellie Mae MacGregor
Instagram @bisexual_booknerd
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I own 91 Candlelight Ecstasy Romances, so it was high time I read one... then I read another 13 for good measure. In December, 1980, Vivian Stephens launched a new line of contemporary category romance at Dell called Candlelight Ecstasy. The line pushed the envelope when it came to sex and sensuality on the page. But how sexy are they and how do these books hold up in 2023?
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Mistress of Mellyn by Virginia Holt is often hailed as responsible for kicking off a boom of modern gothics in the mid-20th century. In this crossover with Reformed Rakes, we ask: is this a gothic first and a romance second? Is our plucky main character in love with the man of the house, or just the house? How does Mistress explore transgression of boundaries, gender, eight-year-olds, and heroines “ahead of their time”?
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Discussed: The Mistress of Mellyn (1960) by Virginia Holt
Guest: Reformed Rakes
Website | Emma | Beth | Chels
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What makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Shelf Love listeners can use “UShelfLove” to get 35% off the book at Indiana University Press, from now until November 2, 2023.
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guest: Dr. Jayashree Kamble
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
https://iupress.org/9780253065704/creating-identity/
Shelf Love Discount code: use “UShelflove” for 35% between September 15, 2023 and November 2, 2023.
Jayashree on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/kamble/
Jayashree’s upcoming New York City book launch events:
9/24/23 - https://www.therippedbodicela.com/brooklyn-events9/22/23 - https://aaari.info/23-09-22kamble/Learn more about the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance at IASPR.org and the open access journal where you can find tons of romance scholarship: JPRStudies.org
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Four romance reading friends embark on a romance history reading project, based on a BookRiot list, and in this episode, two of them — Leigh Kramer and Hannah Hearts romance — have Flames on the Sides of their Face when talking about the Flame and The Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. To keep things interesting, we talk less about the book itself and more about questions of reader reception and the relationship between the 1972 text and the romance texts that followed. Have we come a long way, baby, or are we still wallowing in the same whirlpool of sludgey emotions?
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Discussed: The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
The BookRiot list that inspired the project: https://bookriot.com/most-influential-romance-novels/
Guests:
Leigh Kramer
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Hannah Hearts Romance
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What happens when 35 romance scholars walk into a bar, after hours at the IASPR 2023 Romance Revitalised conference? They share their favorite romance scholarship, and why!
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Thanks to all of the contributors to this episode!
Full list of romance scholarship mentioned on Substack: https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/
Romance Reader Stereotype research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQzi8fBB0R8
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The fabulous foursome (Morgan & Isabeau from Whoa!mance, Dame Jodie Slaughter, Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love) get meta textual as we reflect on our meta podcasting project on Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. What’s this episode about? Take a guess from this collection of possible episode titles:
Panopticon Alert: Meta Reflections on Dreaming of YouThe Internet Killed RomanceWhoa! That’s Some Weird RomanceOur Current Romance PanopticonAlienating Persons in RomanceLove Us or Hate UsHere We Are Now, Offend UsDid you enjoy this podcast?Be sure to listen to episode 140 and 141 before diving into the meta-ness and meta-mess of this text.
Shelf Love:
NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Guest: Dame Jodie Slaughter
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Guests: Whoa!mance (Morgan and Isabeau)
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Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
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Episode 089 to Problematize Romance
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108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular)
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This week, yr grls at long last encounter Derek Craven in "DREAMING OF YOU" by Miss Massachu herself LISA KLEYPAS. It is time for Morgan and Isabeau from Whoa!mance to wade into this collaboration with Shelf Love.
You probably already know this - but Sarah is a regency country mouse who is secretly a best-selling novelist. Facing the dreaded sophomore slump, she seeks out a real Gambling Hell to research her next novel and instead finds Derek Craven. Derek's a gutter baby cum Cockney made good by establishing the most luxurious gambling den in London. But, it turns out, his personal tastes skew a bit more bucolic if you catch our drift (they fall in love!).
What makes a character captivating and why doesn't Derek Craven have any of it? Is the sentimental version of the Culture Wars any more forgivable? It's 10 p.m. - is your child a Perry?
Take our "lump of ice" and tune in as we give this "weep and wail" its "early hours".
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Guests: Whoa!mance (Morgan and Isabeau)
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Morgan & Isabeau joined me in episode 076 to discuss Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
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Episode 089 to Problematize Romance
and
108 She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular)
Shelf Love:
NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Discussed: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
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Let’s talk about Joyce Ashby from Lisa Kleypas's novel Dreaming of You. We delve into the dichotomous portrayal of Joyce as an irredeemable villainess alongside her foil, the redeemable “hero” Derek Craven. We explore the parallel themes of violence, possessiveness, and animalistic sexuality resulting in problematically differing fates and treatment by the text. Belched from the underworld, Defender of Bisexual Villainesses Dame Jodie Slaughter joins Shelf Love in this special cross-over project with Whoa!mance - watch for the next episode, in which Morgan and Isabeau share their conversation about Dreaming of You.
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Discussed: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
Guest: Dame Jodie Slaughter, Shelf Love’s Expert on Bisexual Villainesses
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Amanda Cinelli joins me to discuss representation of autistic characters in romance novels. Amanda shares how reading Helen Hoang’s "The Kiss Quotient" played a big part in her realizing that she was autistic, and talks about some other romances with autism representation that she loved. We also discuss why representing autistic love is important to Amanda as an author and her writing journey pre and post diagnosis.
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The Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangThe Heart Principle by Helen HoangThe Brown Sisters Trilogy by Talia HibbertBergman Brothers’ series by Chloe LieseGuest: Amanda Cinelli
www.amanda-cinelli.com**https://twitter.com/AcinelliAuthor**https://www.instagram.com/amandacinelliauthor/https://www.tiktok.com/@amandacinelliauthorhttps://amandacinelliromanceauthor.substack.com/aboutShelf Love:
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"Somebody’s Trying To Kill Me and I think it’s my husband" by Joanna Russ is a brilliant bit of 50 year old scholarship about modern gothics, but I say it applies just as well to romance novels of today.
In part one, I explore the theme of passive protagonists in adventure stories. Part 2, the personal is the problematic. In all parts: unpacking heteropatriarchy.
Discussed:
Adventure Stories with Passive Protagonists:
https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/adventure-stories-with-passive-protagonists
The Personal is Problematic:
https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/the-personal-is-problematic
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Part 2 of the conversation about North and South with Helena Greer. AI generated these action items from the transcript of this episode. AI responses can be inaccurate or misleading.
[ ] Schedule a kiss scene between the main characters for modern audiences[ ] Make the male protagonist more sympathetic by toning down his violent behavior[ ] Make the female protagonist more likable and relatable to modern romance audiences[ ] Follow a beat sheet to hit expected pacing and plot points for romance novelsThis is part 2 of the conversation about North and South. Check out episode 136 for part 1.
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NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: [email protected]Discussed: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and North and South the 2004 BBC adaptation starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe
SAVE the Cat: https://savethecat.com/
Guest: Helena Greer
Website | Twitter | Instagram | Storyloom Choose Your Own Adventure
Helena Greer is a long time librarian and romance reader, and recent romance novelist. She has a degree in mythography and is interested in deconstructing the social context around the decisions storytellers make about how to frame --or reframe-- their stories.
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