Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

Andrea Martucci

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80Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
178
Episodes
24
Transcribed
120
Ratings
Monthly
Cadence
2019
First episode
1K
YouTube views

About Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

Shelf Love is about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host Andrea Martucci invites experts from a variety of perspectives to critically engaging with romance novels. Listen for discussions of individual books, genre discourse, and scholarly topics.

Publisher
Andrea Martucci
Category
arts · science · society & culture
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
18 Sept 2019
Latest episode
6 Oct 2026
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Latest episodes

24 of 178 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Elaine  Gignilliat's Romance Novel Cover Art with Laura Sawyer

  2. 13 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Jayne Ann Krentz: Risk & Reinvention in Romance

  3. 24 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Sought, Surrender, and the Alien Erotics of Inevitability

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Elaine  Gignilliat's Romance Novel Cover Art with Laura Sawyer

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, which I think is so prolific when you think about these are oil paintings, right? Yes. And I can't do the math in my head, but over the period, I think you said she started in 1975. And then I'm assuming by the mid nineties, the pace is slowing down for, you know, the demand for oil painting covers is changing rapidly. Yeah. The industry evolved to, you know, photography and Photoshop and other, I think, I know you've done some research around the evolution of book cover art, but yeah, but in the nineties, There was a really sharp turn away from oil to photography covers. Yeah. And I know some artists were doing this kind of mix at the time where there would be a photograph and then they would paint on period appropriate clothing or a background, like on top of the photograph. […]

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Who has been a guest on Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

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  • Laura Sawyer
  • Jayne Ann Krentz
  • Jodie Slaughter
  • Laura J. Mayo
  • R. Lee Smith

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YouTube views
1,034
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
86 ratings
Spotify
4.7 / 5
34 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

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95
Social presence
0
YouTube
68
Engagement
95

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