Foz Meadows / Alexandra Rowland

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Today is a true journey into the unknown, for me anyway: romance fiction. In the space of two books, I go from not thinking it was for me to absolutely adoring what Alexandra Rowland dubs “fealty and feelings” novels — so let’s go, let’s get into it, let’s get our hearts messy! And we’ll think a bit about the politics of romance, too…

CW: some discussion of sexual assault and depression/anxiety

ITINERARY:

• Foz Meadows (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance) talks about finding romance through the classics and fan-fiction, learning through points of view, the fun of language and translation, and writing about sexual assault.
• Alexandra Rowland (A Taste of Gold and Iron) talks about their discovery of romance as a genre, writing anxiety, and why they always want to include economics in their books.
• adrienne maree brown (Fables and Spells) muses on the balance of love and power in the speculative fiction she reads — and writes — and how we might find that balance in our world as well.

Read the full episode transcript here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn