In this bonus episode we welcome back friend of the pod Dr Jodi McAlister, who sits down with Kate to discuss how romance novel serialisation works, and what that means for this and future seasons of Bridgerton on Netflix. 

Features:

• Vampires and werewolves and sports teams, oh my!

• Genre as defined by ‘vibes’

• HEA…and post-HEA

• The benefits of time travel

• The benefits of sex scenes

• Peneloise & Bi-nedict

Books and other Media We Discuss:

• Bridgerton, the TV show 

• The Bridgerton series, by Julia Quinn

  • The Duke and I

  • It’s in His Kiss

  • Romancing Mr Bridgerton

  • To Sir Phillip, With Love

• The Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon

• The Fifty Shades of Grey series, by EL James

• The In Death series, by JD Robb

• Happily Ever After...and After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel, by An Goris

• The Troubleshooters series, by Suzanne Brockmann

• The Cynster series, by Stephanie Laurens

• The Bow Street Runners series, by Lisa Kleypas

• A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George RR Martin

• Scarpetta series, by Patricia Cornwell 

• The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series, by Sue Grafton

  • Kate mistakenly conflated this series and that of Sue Grafton in the recording. Apologies to both Patricia and Sue!

• A whole new set of horny lords and ladies: how Bridgerton brought romance book serialisation to television, by Kate Cuthbert and Jodi McAlister

• Adoring Outlander, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel (featuring a chapter by Jodi McAlister

• A Natural History of the Romance Novel, by Pamela Regis

• The Crossfire Series, by Sylvia Day

• The Inside Out series, by Lisa Renee Jones

• Virgin River, the TV series

• Sweet Magnolias, the TV series

• The Virgin River series, by Robyn Carr

• Love in the Western World, by Denis de Rougement

You can find Jodi on twitter as @jodimca and instagram as @jodimcalister, and she’s brand new on TikTok also as @jodimcalister.

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This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, and Gadigal peoples and edited by Rudi Bremer on Gadigal country.

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