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Episode 1: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Episode 1: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Nov 25, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In The Hopeless Romantic, hosts Austin Chant and Amanda Jean talk about the queer romance genre. In this debut episode they talk about the foundations of the genre, from the pulp tragedies of the 1950s to the shamelessly romantic ebooks of today.
Future episodes of The Hopeless Romantic will feature industry guests. The next episode will be about National Novel Writing Month, so be sure to tune in!
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Email us at [thehopelessromanticpodcast@gmail.com](mailto:thehopelessromanticpodcast@gmail.com) with your questions and feedback!
Art by Keezy Young
Music by Carly Ann Worden
**Hosts:**
**Amanda Jean**
**Co-creator/Co-host**
Amanda Jean is an editor, publicist, and occasional writer of queer romance. She grew up devouring het romance novels and shifted to LGBT romance as a teen when her thirsty queer nature revealed itself. Amanda has worked with Less Than Three Press, Torquere Press, NineStar Press, Evernight Publishing, Siren-BookStrand, and serves as the LGBT Director for Alternating Current’s The Spark. When not wrangling manuscripts, you can find her watching documentaries, reading too many books on true crime, and caring too much about fictional characters.
Find her on twitter (@amandahjean) and at [amandahjean.weebly.com](http://amandahjean.weebly.com/).
**Austin Chant**
**Co-creator/Co-host**
Austin Chant is a bitter millennial, avid gamer, and a queer, trans romance writer. His interests include cooking everything, petting friendly dogs and cats, and writing about all kinds of rad queer people. He lives in Seattle with his partners in crime, a pleasant collection of game consoles, and an abundance of tea. In the regrettably large amount of time he spends not writing romance novels, he works in interactive media as a game designer and does his best to stay awake through college.
You can follow him on Twitter (@austinchanted) and his website is [austinchanted.weebly.com.](http://austinchanted.weebly.com/)
Future episodes of The Hopeless Romantic will feature industry guests. The next episode will be about National Novel Writing Month, so be sure to tune in!
If you liked this episode, please rate and review us on iTunes.
The Hopeless Romantic can be followed on Facebook and Twitter:
[https://www.facebook.com/thehopelessromanticpodcast/](https://www.facebook.com/thehopelessromanticpodcast/?fref=ts)
[http://www.twitter.com/TheHRPodcast](http://www.twitter.com/TheHRPodcast)
Email us at [thehopelessromanticpodcast@gmail.com](mailto:thehopelessromanticpodcast@gmail.com) with your questions and feedback!
Art by Keezy Young
Music by Carly Ann Worden
**Hosts:**
**Amanda Jean**
**Co-creator/Co-host**
Amanda Jean is an editor, publicist, and occasional writer of queer romance. She grew up devouring het romance novels and shifted to LGBT romance as a teen when her thirsty queer nature revealed itself. Amanda has worked with Less Than Three Press, Torquere Press, NineStar Press, Evernight Publishing, Siren-BookStrand, and serves as the LGBT Director for Alternating Current’s The Spark. When not wrangling manuscripts, you can find her watching documentaries, reading too many books on true crime, and caring too much about fictional characters.
Find her on twitter (@amandahjean) and at [amandahjean.weebly.com](http://amandahjean.weebly.com/).
**Austin Chant**
**Co-creator/Co-host**
Austin Chant is a bitter millennial, avid gamer, and a queer, trans romance writer. His interests include cooking everything, petting friendly dogs and cats, and writing about all kinds of rad queer people. He lives in Seattle with his partners in crime, a pleasant collection of game consoles, and an abundance of tea. In the regrettably large amount of time he spends not writing romance novels, he works in interactive media as a game designer and does his best to stay awake through college.
You can follow him on Twitter (@austinchanted) and his website is [austinchanted.weebly.com.](http://austinchanted.weebly.com/)
Released:
Nov 25, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (38)
Episode 3: You and Me Could Write a Trans Romance: **Content warning: This episode of THR features some discussion of transphobia and dysphoria and other potentially triggering subjects.** The third episode of The Hopeless Romantic, "You and Me Could Write a Trans Romance," features the podcast's first guest, author Sam Schooler. Amanda and Austin ask about Sam's experiences as a genderqueer author, discuss ways cis authors can respectfully represent trans characters, and how presses can better market trans books. Other topics include writing contemporary vs historical trans literature, not writing trans characters to meet a diversity quota, and Sam and Austin's favorite trans books. Follow Sam Schooler on twitter: [@samschoolering](twitter.com/samschoolering) Trans submission calls: (Please review the submission guidelines thoroughly. Please note that these calls may not be romance-specific.) [Topside Press ](http://topsidepress.com/call-for-submissions-short-speculative-fi by The Hopeless Romantic