Reel

Boobies & Noobies: A Romance Review Podcast

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The Novel:
Reel (Hollywood Renaissance #1)
The Author:
Kennedy Ryan
The Noobies:
Mel Gill, Founder of Steamy Lit
IG: @bookrecsbymel (personal)
IG: @thesteamboxco (The Steam Box)
The Synopsis:
One moment in the spotlight.
For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings, preparing for my time to shine.
I never imagined he would watch in the audience that night.
Canon Holt.
Famous film director.
Fascinating. Talented. Fine.
Before I could catch my breath, everything changed.
I went from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood.
From being unknown, to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone’s lips.
Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic, catapulting me into another stratosphere.
But stars shine brightest in the dead of night.
Forbidden attraction, scandal and circumstances beyond my control jeopardize my dream.
Could this one shot—the role of a lifetime, the love of a lifetime—cost me everything?
*Content Warnings* Loss of a loved one, chronic illness (heroine is living with Discoid Lupus), hospital/medical scenes
Show Notes:
- Steamy Lit, home of the Steam Box: providing women romance authors of color and non-binary/genderqueer authors a platform to amplify their voices through their work while also empowering discourse around sexuality.
- A bit of city talk... Sponsor us, San Diego
- How romance books make us feel - "self love, and what that means to you"
- Diversifying and expanding your reading list... beyond Booktok (00:06:52)
- Unpack your feelings and think about them
- A brief synopsis for today's reading selection, Reel
- An idealized version of Hollywood (that I wish was real): Daycare on set and a therapist on standby, and an almost-all female crew
- A movie... about a movie... within a book
- Choosing not to villainize the hero's ex and other female characters (00:26:07)
- Addressing chronic illness in romance
- Constant devotion... characters will chronic illness can be sexual creatures, too (00:38:24)
- Some hypotheses about the future books in the series
- Coming soon: The Close-up, a Hollywood Renaissance novella
- When secondary characters have their own stories
- Let's talk about some steamy sexcerpts (00:48:48, then again at 00:57:12)
- Shoutout to former guest of the pod, Amanda aka @talk_about_swoon for all of her lists
- Addressing stigmas about women in male-dominated industries
- Heart, Humor, & Heat Ratings (01:01:08)
- The books coming soon in the Fall Steam Box: Latin X themed!
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