Christina Lauren Interview Part 2
Romance at a Glance is a podcast where hosts Bridget and Shani review romance novels and interview some of romance’s biggest authors diving into candid conversations about life, relationships, and sexual desires. Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor. Leave us a rating and review on iTunes.
Full transcript available below.
Christina Lauren Podcast Interview - Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of the interview, you can listen to it here.
We covered SOOOOO many things in this interview but a few of our favorite mentions are below:
Book Branding & Promoting Q’s
Why their books have moved towards illustrated covers without a person on the front.
Why they moved from writing series into writing standalone romance novels.
Their experience with publishing and promoting books 2 or 3 books in a year with promotion tours, marketing and feeling like sometimes they’re not done promoting before the next book comes out.
The evolution of book cover designs and branding in romance novels
Why the men in Brazil are getting the secrets from their books.
Adaptations of their books for TV/Film
I Know This Much Is True by Wally book Lauren loves being made into a show
The Roomies is being made into a film
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim on Hulu
Book Editing, comments, and writing Release
How the books they turned in to the editor/publisher are completely different from what comes out. They love getting notes and revisions from their editors.
Why the Christina Lauren pen name allows praise and criticism to roll off their backs.
Shani’s thrilled excitement over our first bad review. And Christina describes how fanfiction helped them get a thick skin!
Their move from separate careers to writing together full-time. The progression and their advice for new authors.
They gave us an insight into their revenue streams and how you can support them as authors if you love their books and why Patreon isn’t a fit for them.
Personal Q’s
The response from the people in their lives when they let them know they are writing romance.
Shani, Christina, and Lauren bond over their signs while Bridget sits and is confused!
Bridget throwing down that it isn’t luck to write so many books together!
Their reaction to a book event in Brazil where the crowds were screaming to see them.
Book they’re reading
The Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall
Heart and Seoul - Jen Frederick
Daring and the Duke - Sarah MacLean
To Have and to Hoax - Martha Waters
Diversity in their books
How they decide on a characters ethnicity, sexual orientation.
How they balance what stories they feel are theirs to tell.
A book they ended up scraping because their sensitivity.
Their choice and decision to amplify own voices.
Shani on who she doesn’t care about historical accuracy and wants more black and brown people in fantasy!
Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvience - Rebekah Weatherspoon
Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev
How we wanna be their best friends
Shani inviting them over to Bridget’s house.
They liked us!
We’re hoping to meet them IRL
Full Podcast Transcript
Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires.
As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance’s biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo in order to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.
Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.
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