Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

Andrea Martucci

andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

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Booking Overview

Shelf Love examines romance novels as cultural texts—how they represent desire, consent, genre conventions, and reader reception. It’s a strong fit for authors, scholars, and publishing professionals who can speak critically about romance subgenres and their social impact.

Metrics

Episodes: 176

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 2.1k followers

Contact Information

andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

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Host

Andrea Martucci - Host of Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse. Invites experts from multiple perspectives to critically engage with romance novels, focusing on how romance reflects, explores, challenges, and shapes ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published romance authors; romance industry/publishing professionals; digital publishing or content curation leaders; fanfiction scholars/critics/major commentators; media and cultural critics with expertise in genre discourse, consent/representation themes, and reader reception.
Required Achievements:  
Published novels (including romance subgenres/romantasy), Leadership roles in publishing, digital publishing, or book curation products, Notable fanfiction/community expertise or recognized commentary work, Public-facing projects (subscriptions/editions) aimed at growing readership

Recent Guest Discussions

Dame Jodie Slaughter - Reader Reception And Consent/coercion Framing In The Romance Novel Sought; Alien Erotics; Genre Discourse; Ethics Of How Fantasies Solve Emotional Problems For Readers.

Julia Quinn - Curating Historical Romance For New Readers; Inspiration And Curation Process; Market Challenges For The Historical Romance Subgenre.

Fangirl Jeanne - Capitalizing On Fanfic; Ethics Of Profiting From Derivative Works; Transformation From Fanfic To Commercially-published Romantasy; Implications For Subtext And Context.

Recent Topics

Romance, Literature, Publishing, Bookboxing, Genre

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse
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Sought, Surrender, and the Alien Erotics of Inevitability

May 24, 2026

Dame Jodie Slaughter is back to discuss Sought by Evangeline Anderson, a sci-fi alien romance from the Brides of the Kindred series featuring twin alien heroes, fated mates, dubiously consensual erotic worldbuilding, and a surprisingly useful framework for understanding what different readers seek from romance. Rather than treating Sought as simply good, bad, hot, weird, or problematic, we use it as a case study in readerly fantasy: why do some romance novels need to name coercion explicitly,...

Julia Quinn on JQ Editions: Curating Historical Romance

January 13, 2026

Get the scoop on Julia Quinn's new venture straight from the source: JQ Editions is a subscription book box dedicated to curating historical romance to help new readers discover a love for the subgenre. Julia shares insights about the inspiration behind this project, her curation process, and the challenges facing historical romance in the market today. --Guest: Julia QuinnJQ Editions Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1361360798/jq-editions-julia-quinns-curated-romance-book-bo...

Alchemised: Capitalizing Fanfic

November 04, 2025

Fangirl Jeanne, fanfic elder, is back to revisit the fan fiction formerly known as “Manacled,” now traditionally published as “Alchemised” by SenLinYu. Three years after our initial discussion about Manacled in episodes 116 and 117, we delve into the transformation of this Harry Potter/”Dramione” (aka Draco-Hermione) + Handmaid’s Tale fanfic into a commercially-published romantasy novel. What happens to subtext when you remove the context of the text? What are the ethics of profiting from fan...

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