Exploring the in‑between: where imagination, romance, and the soul’s journey meet. <br/><br/><a href="https://vanessacouto.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">vanessacouto.substack.com</a>
Romancing the Threshold
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Exploring the in‑between: where imagination, romance, and the soul’s journey meet. <br/><br/><a href="https://vanessacouto.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">vanessacouto.substack.com</a>
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July 2, 2026
The Books That Read You Back
<p>Some doors close so quietly we forget our own hand was on them. Rebecca Nelson, a literature student and bookseller who helps run a romance book club, sat down to talk about what readers are looking for when they reach for romance. What unfolded was the story of her own crossing, a woman who had quietly written herself off and then, at midlife, began opening the doors again. A conversation about reading as company through change, the characters who unsettle us, and why being seen, on the page and across a bookstore counter, might be the quiet medicine underneath it all.</p><p>If this episode found you, leave a review wherever you listen. It helps other readers find this work. And find the writing at <a target="_blank" href="http://vanessacouto.substack.com">vanessacouto.substack.com</a> all the rest is at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vanessacouto.com/">https://www.vanessacouto.com/</a></p><p>Romancing the Threshold: a podcast about crossings, and the stories that carry us across.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Vanessa Couto at <a href="https://vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 2, 2026
Kelly Jarvis on the Power of the Small
<p>The smallest things tend to carry the most: a fairy tale, a love story, a cup of tea made with real attention.</p><p>Vanessa sits down with writer and fairy tale scholar Kelly Jarvis, whose debut novel, Sea and Stars (out July 7th), is a gothic retelling of Beauty and the Beast set between the Isle of Skye and the old whaling town of Mystic, Connecticut. Together they wander through why this one tale keeps returning to us, what it means to love the beast as he is rather than wait for him to become a prince, the magic that lives in the everyday, and why a lasting love might be built more from choice than from fate.</p><p>A conversation about small magic, and the medicine that hides in what we were taught not to take seriously.</p><p>Find the writing at <a target="_blank" href="http://vanessacouto.substack.com">vanessacouto.substack.com</a> and everything else at <a target="_blank" href="http://vanessacouto.com">vanessacouto.com</a>. There's always room by the hearth.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Vanessa Couto at <a href="https://vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 17, 2026
Karla Sorensen on the Why of Characters, Writing Craft, and the Body of the Writer
<p>Karla Sorensen writes contemporary romance set in the world of professional football, and inside her pages she's quietly doing something extraordinary: rendering grief with the care of someone who's apprenticed to it, drawing men from the inside of their armor, and writing women with their own sovereignty intact.</p><p>In this conversation, we talk about how characters arrive (and refuse to leave), what the body of the writer knows that the mind doesn't, and the strange labor of bringing a story into being, of wrestling with it like Jacob with the angel until something cracks.</p><p>A masterclass, by any honest measure. Come in.</p><p>The full reflection on this episode lives at <a target="_blank" href="http://vanessacouto.substack.com">vanessacouto.substack.com</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Vanessa Couto at <a href="https://vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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