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July is nearly over, and that means it’s almost time for the release of A Taste of Love, Clare’s novel in The Village Romance series (https://lesbianromancesbytbm.com/the-village-romance-series/). Woot!
TB isn’t so sure about Clare’s adjectives that begin with an H until hearing the ones Clare tossed out. The duo recorded this episode early, and Clare tries to hum a song to clue in TB about the significance of the day. As usual, TB is clueless.
TB shares she had a terrible week prepping A Shot at Love for publication. Both of them agree the week before a launch is never fun. Clare had to dig deep to get her book over the finish line so she could send it out to her ARC team. She’s been too busy to apply for Hamilton tickets. A travesty!
They move on to the main subject of this week’s episode: lesbian TV and movie characters who have inspired their writing. TB confesses she forgot to prep, but Clare, the uber professional, has TB’s back. A true friend! Clare discusses the characters that impacted her in the 90s, a couple of them unknown to TB. Then Clare moves on to present-day characters. For someone who didn’t prepare, TB has a surprising amount to say. The bottom line: both are surprised how far lesbian representation has come over the past couple of decades, but there’s still room for improvement.
Stop back next week for another lively conversation about how they choose their book titles and character names. If you’d like to leave a comment on the episode, head over to www.lesbianswhowrite.com. They’d love to hear from you. Or you can email them at: lesbianswhowrite@gmail.com.
Happy listening!
Clare and TB
Bad Girls – Helen and Nikki ❤ #thisisall
I will never get enough of them! Great that you mentioned them Clare!!!
I really need to watch Bad Girls!
“She broke out of prison to have sex with the prison governor.” A comment made by Clare that I enjoyed. BOUND was one of my favorite happy ending lesbian films. Deep Space Nine’s character Jadzia Dax kisses Enino Tandro during a first season episode. As a sci-fi fan I was over the moon. I stopped watching when I learned OITNB would kill off Pousey (Samira Wiley). As a Black lesbian woman my politics would interfere with anything else I many want to write. So, thanks for the nuts and bolts of writing.
I do love Clare’s British wit. She always keeps me laughing.
I forgot about the kiss on Deep Space Nine. Thanks for the reminder!
And the choice by OITNB was disturbing. I haven’t watched the last couple of seasons.
Thanks so much for listening and commenting!
TB
Ohh god.. giggles from the start.. And me here with a sleeping kid. Don’t give up the day job, Clare 😀 (referring to the humming)
Tea or a joint? Would _you_ have your pinkie up while smoking a spliff?
Booksmart: good god, it was a brilliant movie! Laughed ourselves silly, later marveled at how they managed to get _all that_ into a comedy without it getting preachy.
*sigh* Helen & Nikki.. I so wanted to be Nikki. Or just snog Simone Lahbib. Or maybe just to hear her talk to me :-}
I wonder how many of us are still put off by the face of Mia Kirshner, all because of The L Word..?
I still feel bad for not guessing the song Clare hummed.
Adding Booksmart to my must watch list. How in the world did I not hear about it? Crawling back under my rock now…
Maybe we should take a poll about Mia Kirshner. Might be interesting.
Thanks so much for listening and hopefully the kid didn’t wake.
TB
Great episode, girls! As I’m around your age, I was fed up and distressed by the ‘kill the lesbian’ trope. It’s incredible how far we are now from that. Gopositive representation!
It still baffles me that kill the lesbian was so prevalent in film and TV. Fingers crossed positive representation will continue to grow.
Thanks for listening!
TB