We talk THE ACCIDENTAL PROPOSAL Live

Y. M. Nelson talks about her steamy sequel to The Accidental Swipe -- The Accidental Proposal - in this episode recorded live on YouTube. She talks

•  The Captain America shirt scene and reality
• Nerdy Easter Eggs
• How I saw these books
• The story behind Sporgi
• The supporting Accidental cast
• Jason's privileged friendships
• Celeste as a supporting character
• Accidental Book 3 Exclusive
• Exclusive spinoff series news!
• More exclusive news: A Secret Second Chances glow-up

Chapters

• 0:00 We talk The Accidental Proposal Live
• 2:47 The Captain America shirt scene and reality
• 7:32 Nerdy Easter Eggs
• 8:50 How I saw these books
• 13:12 The story behind Sprogi
• 16:41 The supporting Accidental cast
• 21:16 Jason's priveleged friendships
• 27:51 Celeste as a supporting characterz
• 31:10 Accidental Book 3 Exclusive
• 38:38 Another Y. M. Nelson exclusive!
• 41:26 More exclusive News: A Secret Second Chances glow-up

Transcript

Hello Nerdy Romantics! I'm so excited to be here live with you talking today about The Accidental Proposal. Yay! So, The Accidental Proposal is the first, I'm sorry, the second book in the Accidental Lovers trilogy. And, yes, it will be a trilogy. Spoiler alert, just in case you didn't know that. But the first book, of course, is The Accidental Swipe.

So, The Accidental Swipe came out last year in July, the end of July last year, and The Accidental Proposal came out this year in June, the end of June. So at the moment, right now, it is in Kindle Unlimited. It is on Amazon. So, the ebook is on Amazon. The book is on Amazon. Paperback is everywhere. But as of next year, we will have the ebook everywhere, including libraries, so everybody can get it. I'm a big proponent of libraries. 

So tonight we're going to talk about The Accidental Proposal and we might talk a little bit about The Accidental Swipe. But we will also talk about what's next in the trilogy-- what is next for Jason and Fortune. And we'll also talk a little bit about this

I bet you didn't know that this was out as well. This is called Secret Second Chances. It is in ebook on Amazon at the moment. But will also be everywhere next year hopefully. But we'll talk about Secret Second Chances and how that fits in with Jason and Fortune and how that fits in with everything else.

So stay tuned. Is the Nerdy Romantics Podcast and I'm your host, YM Nelson.

And we're here live talking about The Accidental Proposal by me Y. M. Nelson. 

[00:02:47] The Captain America shirt scene and reality

And you know, today I'm wearing a Captain America t shirt because, of course, this is a little Easter egg to a scene in The Accidental Proposal. But for everyone out there if you're out there put in the comments what your favorite scenes are.

From The Accidental Proposal are or maybe even what your favorite characters from this series are and, you know, let me know what you think about that. Right now, as far as the Captain America shirt and the Captain America scene one of the reasons why I put that in the book is A, because I'm nerdy, and I like Captain America. So you know, that, that's one reason. 

But it actually goes to another reason of why I write the characters that I write and how I like to make them authentic. A lot of times in romance novels, you'll see the heroine, maybe a morning after kind of thing, and this is a morning after kind of thing. So, a morning after scene, and maybe she puts on his shirt, and of course, she's swallowed up in his shirt. And that's not gonna happen with Fortune and Jason. That's not gonna happen with a lot of my female heroines. Because I write plus sized main characters, curvy main characters and, you know, while Fortune is not, she's, she's a short woman, but while she's not as tall as Jason is, and while Jason is a big dude, Jason is not, you know, a hugely big dude and Fortune is plus size.

So, you know as a plus size woman even with a tall guy who may have a little bit of a, a little bit of a beer belly or something of that nature, she's still gonna put on his shirt, and the shirt is gonna be too tight. And so that is the nature of the Captain America shirt scene. She puts on this shirt, this shirt is a little tight on her. Does Jason like that? Yeah. Yeah, he really does. But But it is part to me of the authenticity of a plus size woman, and even though he's a big dude, he is not a you know, he's not, he's still going to, you know, she's not going to be swallowed up in his shirts, basically.

So, that's a little bit of where In the first book, The Accidental Swipe when they were having a moment she talks about, his his hand on a certain part of her waist and why she's, you know, she's very aware of where his hand is on her waist. And as a plus size woman, I, I know what that feels like, somebody's hand is on your waist and you're like there may be some, fat rolls there that I'm not really happy about, you holding on to, you know, and I'm not sure if you're, turned off by that, turned on by that, or what.

So so, she has a moment there. She's, she's aware of what her body looks like and what her body possibly looks like to somebody that she's with. Doesn't mean that she's ashamed of her body. It just means that I'm aware, and I know what other people think, and I am going to safeguard myself from that.

So you know, it's, it's one of those authentic kind of scenes that I like to put into my novels to let everybody know, hey, If there's a movie that's ever going to be made out of this book, this woman is not going to be skinny, okay? She's just not going to be skinny. And we're going to make this authentic, we're going to make this layered, and we're going to make this a little bit nuanced.

[00:07:32] Nerdy Easter Eggs

So So, what about, what about what about you? What are your, some of your favorite scenes or favorite characters? Obviously, you know, let me know in the comments. There are a lot of scenes here in The Accidental Proposal that I kind of did also as Easter eggs. I love a good I love a good Easter egg in books.

 And a lot of my Easter eggs, I like to, if the people are not outright nerdy I like to make sure that they have a little nerdy going on. So yeah, Jason has a Captain America t- shirt, but also in the very beginning of the book Jason actually goes and He when he's going back home from Fortune's house and hanging out with his buddies or hanging out with his buddy Graham, they are gaming, and, you know, they're playing, Mortal Kombat.

So, I mean, they're gonna be a lot of nerdy nuances. Even if the characters may not be outright nerdy in, in a lot of my books. 

[00:08:50] How I saw these books

So what about Jason and Fortune and the the whole cast of characters? You know, what do you think about those whole cast of characters? Well, for me Fortune was the first character that I saw. So that is why The Accidental Swipe is Fortune's book. So this book is Fortune's book. And A lot of what happens and what we see in this book, we see a lot of it through Fortune's eyes, even though both of these are dual point of view if you haven't read them, they are third person, dual point of view, and I love third person.

So that that's where we're going with that for, for the near future. But I guess I'm kind of just getting started with the dual with dual point of view. And what I've noticed is there's always going to be a, one of the couple, one of the main characters is always going to be the comments and I'll let you know in just a minute, but one of the characters is always going to have a little bit more air time than others at times. And so because The Accidental Swipe was Fortune's book, The Accidental Proposal was Jason's book.

And so I think that's why you saw a lot of of Jason in this book and you didn't see a lot of Fortune. In The Accidental Swipe, you saw a lot of Fortune going to work, a little bit of a little slice of work and a few of her friends. And even though you get to meet more of her friends in The Accidental Proposal, you don't, you don't really get to see a lot of her life in this book, because Jason is going through something, y'all. He is being confronted with something he's never really been confronted with in his relationships. And while I imagine him in his backstory, I imagine that he has been in interracial relationships and he always loves curvy women, we already know he's never dated a plus size woman until Fortune because we've said that. But he's never really been in a relationship exactly like this one where it's an interracial interracial relationship, the woman is plus size and he's really seriously thinking about marrying this woman. He really loves her. So he's really serious about her, which is a different level when you actually introduce somebody to, you know, your friends especially your close, longtime friends. Yeah, it's a little bit, you know, it's a little bit different than saying, Hey, this is the girl I met, you know, at the club last night. Just totally different. And and so there's a lot going on there. 

But yeah, this- Accidental Proposal is Jason's book. So I've noticed that a few people have said, well, you know, I'm not sure where Fortune is, or this feels a little whatever. And it's because the first book was Fortune's book, this book is Jason's book. So we're getting really into, you know, what he has going on in his life and what's going on there. And and so that's why we step back from Fortune a little bit. But what we do see here is we see a little more ensemble kind of cast of characters. What we're gonna do with these characters, well, I'll let you know in a little bit.

[00:13:12] The story behind Sporgi

But from the comments, I love that that Sporgi is your favorite character, Millard. I do have a story about Sporgi. Sporgi is actually from the from The Accidental Swipe, and Sporgi is actually is actually a plush toy. And it is a Corgi in a space suit. And the the actual the actual story about that whole scene, and how that whole scene came about.

So this is a little bit of how writers write and how we do things. Actually The Accidental Swipe I worked on it during one of, I guess that was 2019 in November of 2019. I was working on it for Nano. I didn't win Nano that, that year because I don't write that fast. And November is a very, very busy month for me.

But one of the. Things that I love to do during nano is NaNoWriMo they have a YouTube channel where they do writing sprints and in all of the writing sprint sessions, they have prompts in case you are kind of stymied, like you don't know exactly what to write about.

So one of the prompts It was a side prompt, actually. It wasn't the main prompt. There was a main prompt, and then people started talking about this plush toy. Kind of how I have my little teddy bear here. So they had a little plush toy corgi with a spacesuit on in the background as we were writing, and that was kind of like a side thing. So, in that session, we nicknamed it Sporgi. And then we had a writing prompt about it, and of course, from that I just wrote on that writing prompt for some reason, I had Sporgi in the backseat of Jason's car when Jason is going to the going to the gala.

And that is also the moment, you know, when Fortune, audibly says, I love you to Jason and the fact that that happens and part of it is because she's looking at the space Corgi plush toy in the backseat. And why does he have this plush toy in the backseat?

Well, he has this plush toy in the backseat because he does have a niece. who is, you know, elementary school kid, you know, likes, plush animals. So that is why that's why he has them. And to say that you're looking forward for more appearances, you may see Sporgi again. That's all I'm gonna say on that. 

[00:16:41] The supporting Accidental cast

But a little bit about the rest of the cast. So the rest of the cast in The Accidental Proposal we get to see in The Accidental Swipe, of course, we got to see two of Fortune's best friends, and we got to see some of Jason's best friends or parts of Jason's best friends, but in The Accidental Proposal, because it is Jason's book, we are seeing you know, the whole personalities of his best friends.

And so his his very best friend, Graham you know, we know him as an egotistical dude who's a little bit oblivious. That's what we're gonna say about that. Ranjan is basically the, the guy who, the practical guy of the group. The guy who has the clear, He's clear, he's level headed, he's practical and, you know, he sees things as they are, and he doesn't pull any punches. So you know, he says it like it is. 

Seth is a little bit hot headed. More than a little bit hot headed. He is that, he is the wacko friend that believes in conspiracy theories and, and craziness like that, and ones that you're gonna have to kind of, You know, it's like, hey, calm down. It's going to be okay.

But he's also the guy who gets the keg, as they call him, the guy with the keg, or the keg guy. But You know, one other thing is he doesn't pull punches about who he's mean to. He is a jerk. . He is a straight up jerk. We don't like him. And he is, unfortunately, he is the villain of this, this particular book. 

I will say this writing him and in particular, I'm not really good with writing villains. I, I don't like to get in that head space of, of just pure evil. I don't, that's, that's not why I write villains. Romance novels to get into the headspace of pure evil. No we don't want to do that.

But and so it was, you know, it was hard to write Seth at times. But he is a special brand of evil. He is, you know, a racist and misogynist jerk. And, you know, he's basically everything, everything that I try to avoid in life, knowing, you know, someone like this and, It was, it was hard to, to get into his, his headspace at times.

But in order to really kind of write him as authentically as I could, from their perspective, both Jason and Fortune's perspective you know, you had to kind of stay in his headspace. And that wasn't, that wasn't fun. However, I will say that and if you've read The Accidental Proposal, the author's note, which I think I will move to the front of the eBooks because I think it really needs to be more of a precursor is that, I wrote the, the Black Moment scene, in other words, the dark, All Is Lost, you know, this is the, the worst thing, you know, this is rock bottom, kind of, whatever, I wrote that scene first of this, of, that was the first scene I wrote, because that scene that was the scene that came to me and I started this book from there with the premise that, you know, we have somebody evil out there that we got to deal with.

[00:21:16] Jason's privileged friendships

And unfortunately, that evil happens to be Best friends with, or good friends, I should say long term friends. Not necessarily good friends. Cause just because we've been friends with somebody for a long time, does not mean we're really good close friends. And that's actually evident with Jason and his buddies.

Because he has a different relationship with each one of them. So The fact that he's really close with Graham and he, and he's just seeing some eye opening things about Seth and they've both, they were both in college together, right? They've all been friends since college, lets me know that, you know, There's, there's a little bit going on there.

Just because you've known somebody a long time does not mean you're the same level of friends with that person. And you know, I think a lot of what happened with him and with the whole friend group is that Seth kind of came along with the package, right? Right. That was the first thing, but then the second thing was that they excused a lot of his behavior.

They just kind of let it go like this, right? And and I think for both Jason and for Graham Because Jason, Graham, and Seth are all white dudes, right? They're all white guys. And because I think they are all white guys, there's a certain privilege that happens Where you can just overlook certain things, or you don't have to see certain things, because certain things don't necessarily affect you.

And so, when Seth is saying something you know, hateful and out there, they Graham and Jason just, probably for years, I imagine that this has happened for years, because I imagine Seth has been this way since since he was a kid. 

And there is some, there is some bonus content for out there where you, where, if you want to know what goes on, what made Seth the way he is. There is some bonus content out there. And the link for it is in the back of The Accidental Proposal where you can get the bonus content for for why Seth is the way he is.

And And because he was that way when they met him, I think they just wrote it off as him being a jerk. And they could write it off as him being a jerk. Because because of that privilege, I believe. Because of the white male privilege that's there. They can just overlook that, you know? It's like, especially considering that Seth is looking out for them, right?

Seth talks about, you know, he's he's looking out for, you know, he looked out for Jason or whatever or you know him warning Jason about Fortune is his way of looking out for Jason And maybe in the past with other females that might have worked, but Jason is in love with Fortune and Jason is not going to have that and Jason actually knows, you know, a lot about Fortune and knows enough that he loves Fortune.

So. So I think, you know, it's really now that Fortune is in Jason's life that everything that Seth is doing is coming into relief. It's coming into focus that he's not just a jerk. He is being a jerk to certain people, and we have not been paying attention because we have been wrapped up in this wonderful privilege where we don't have to pay attention.

And, you know, I think that that's very real. I have to say it. I think that that's very, very real, that that could happen. You know, I want to be appalled by it, but I don't I think that I just, I see it happen. I see it happen a lot. And, you know, Ranjan again, with his practical mind or whatever, he knows what's going on with this dude, right? He knows that, but he is also the one that's saving face, and two, he has two good friends in in Jason and in Graham, and he's not gonna let this bad actor, you know, mess that up. He's just not gonna hang around when Seth is acting like a jerk and, and he [Ranjan] says this, you know, in the book. So I think that is part, that's part of what happens when the longer we're friends with somebody, the more tolerant we can be of them. 

I think we are probably the most probably the most critical of people when we first meet them because we don't really know them. Then once we get to know somebody, a lot of things we tolerate because we know about the good times. Right? Because we know about what's going on. 

[00:27:51] Celeste as a supporting character

But Jason has his set of friends, and I wanted to make sure that I rounded out Fortune's set of friends with Celeste. So we also see in The Accidental Proposal that Fortune, it's a new friend for y'all. It's not a new friend for her. But I think I took this a little bit from my own experience. I have some incredible best friends. Some of them, I see them all the time. one of them you know, I, I used to work with them, right? So I would see that person all the time, right?

You know, one lives very close to me. So I, you know, I see that person more than I would, you know, my best friend from college who I don't get to see very often. And I think I kind of wanted to put that in Fortune's case, you know, she's gonna have best friends, a long time best friend, and unlike Jason, Jason is a different person, his long time best friends all hang out on Friday night at The Graveyard.

But Fortune, her longtime best Friend, she knows them from different places. And so she hangs out with them in different ways and in different places. And so I think with Celeste, especially with Celeste being as, you know, well off. As she is you know, Celeste moves in a little bit different circles every day than Fortune does.

Right. And too, Fortune also has a job in marketing that is also taking her out of office after hours kind of thing. We're going to have this celebration for this client and we're going to show this client how to do this and all this kind of stuff. So so basically you know, that's why I think we meet Celeste at this point, but why Celeste is a best friend. And also, why we don't necessarily see Elaheh as much, and Louis as much, because we are not seeing Fortune's work life in this particular book, because we're focusing on Jason's work life. And we're not necessarily seeing you know, how, when she's hanging out with Louis, we're not seeing that as much.

Even though we see it some when they're doing the dates and things like that, we don't see it as much because we're also seeing we're seeing Celeste, and we're getting to know Celeste, which is kind of how I wanted to do that. I wanted to make sure everybody knew Celeste. Because there is a third book out there, and we're going to see them all together.

[00:31:10] Accidental Book 3 Exclusive

And we will see them, we will see this whole cast of characters come together. And in that, on that note you know, it, it probably is a good time to say yes. The On Purpose Wedding. is coming, and it will be hopefully it will be out next year. I am currently writing it as we speak. And so while while The Accidental Swipe was Fortune's book, And The Accidental Proposal was Jason's book, The On Purpose Wedding Is going to be obviously both of their books, right? But it's both of their books and it's everybody's book. Everybody's gonna get a little bit of a cameo here and there and everything like that because everybody gets involved when there's a wedding happening. 

A lot of times especially if we're gonna throw a big wedding, it's not about the bride and groom. There's always somebody's auntie out there doing some craziness, and trying to, you know, get something going. There's always mothers and mothers in law and families getting together and realizing, Oh, this is, this is what the in law side is like.

Oh my. There's always gossiping, you know, going on. And some of, sometimes we don't necessarily, because we get caught up in that, and because we might not be the bride or the groom or or part of the people that's getting married.

Because all that's happening, and all that's going on we forget about the people that are getting married. And what in the world are they thinking? And, so, That's essentially one of the big themes of The On Purpose Wedding.

It's going to be yes, this is not an accident. In other words, this is the absolute opposite of accidental. This is on purpose, but everybody thinks it's an accident. It's like, everybody is like, is this for real? These two people getting married? 

The other thing about this and, you know, the other thing that kind of puts a little bit of a twist on this is that Jason is, is in his early 40s, Fortune is turning 40 in The Accidental Proposal and For American society at this moment, for some reason, it's still, oh my gosh, these people are getting married at this age? You know, it's still like, is this, is this a second marriage? That's what people do. They give you the side eye and then they say, Is this the second time you've been married?

I mean you've never been married before and you're 40? You're 40 how old? And I think that is just an antiquated way to think. You know, that's, that's a dumb way to think, in my opinion. As a, a woman that is, almost at middle age, in my opinion. I, I've just started to be an adult.

There's no way that I could possibly get married at, 21. Like, when I was just out of college, I'm thinking about this now, and I'm thinking, When I was just out of college? I'm like, are you kidding me? No. That's not gonna happen. It's just not gonna happen. Yeah, I was, I was still so much of a kid, you know? My twenties were just basically an extension of college, almost for me, except I was responsible a little bit more than I was in college.

And I did pay my bills and go to work when I was supposed to go to work. But other than that, it was it was a straight up party for me in my 20s, right? In my 30s, I was just coming around to, Oh, I've actually got to be an adult and I've got to, do something that actually fulfills me.

I think it wasn't until I turned 40 that I realized I'm not fully being authentically me. And even though I had been writing the whole time, I've been a writer since you know, I've, I've been a, I should say, I've been a novel writer since I was 16, because I wrote my first novel length work when I was 16.

But did that see the light of day? No. And I don't think that I had kind of the my auten, my authenticity. I didn't have, I didn't really know who I was and realize that writing is what I need to do. That that's, that, that needs to be in my life at all times. Right? , I need to be writing at some point.

And not knowing that at that time, you know, I've wasted a lot of years, but at the same point in time, I didn't really realize until I was 40 that, hey, this is who I am, this is what I like to do, and I need to be okay with it. And I feel the same way about marriage. I think, I don't think in your 20s, you're really, I mean, not everybody, I should say.

So it shouldn't be looked at as, if somebody's getting married in their 40s, it shouldn't be looked at as, is this a joke? Or, or somebody's first getting 40s. It shouldn't be looked at as, is this a joke? Is this crazy? But, You know, that's what's gonna happen to Jason and Fortune. People are gonna be looking at them like, are you nuts?

And then, you know, there's always the people that want to hijack the wedding. This is what I want to do. And it's usually the mamas. They're like, oh, we need to get together and do this, and this needs to happen, and you know, all this lovely stuff. But there are a lot of hijinks and things that that are going on that I'm writing out now that I'm, I'm so excited to, to share that, you know share that with, with all of you, especially all of you that are loving Jason and Fortune. And are even loving Sporgi! I think that's so cute. Or you know, loving all these the other cast of characters. 

[00:38:38] Exclusive spinoff series news!

And, of course, in that vein, with the cast of characters that's out there. I have some exclusive news about that vein! And it starts off with shout out to the TBD book club.

Millard, we saw you in the comments. Shout out to that book club because they did pick The Accidental Swipe as one of their book club selections during the time when they were having their book club, and I got so much good information from that book club. You know, I, I was able to actually kind of see some characters in a different way than what I was seeing them before. And then, also I want to shout out to all the reviewers who reviewed The Accidental Swipe and especially the reviewers who reviewed in the, in the very beginning, before the book came out. Because between those two kind of moments where I got feedback, I have actually been thinking a lot about some of the side characters in the Accidental Lovers trilogy, and while the Accidental Lovers trilogy, in my, at this point, we never say never, but at this point, while we are thinking that this is going to be the end of the line for Jason and Fortune being main characters, several of their side characters have been speaking to all of you. And and in essence, or therefore, they've also kind of been speaking to me as well.

And so, I am actually also thinking about taking some of the side characters from The Accidental Swipe, The Accidental Proposal, so maybe even one side character from the On Purpose Wedding and giving them their own books in another series called the Sly Foxes Nightclub series. And for those of you who are actually reading Accidental Lovers, you already know what Sly Foxes Nightclub is all about.

So, there you go! Exclusive news, exclusive news. 

[00:41:26] More exclusive news: A Secret Second Chances glow-up

But that is not all the exclusive news. Actually my newsletter subscribers, they already know this. But They they already know some of this, I should say and that is why you really have to be a newsletter subscriber, okay, everybody? So you can get this exclusive news as well. But this particular bit of exclusive news that I'm about to talk about has to do with Secret Second Chances.

So Secret Second Chances backstory here about this book is that this started off in the very, very beginning in 2017, back in the day, 2017 it started off as 24 Hours of Freedom, a short story that I said. Hmm, I think I'm gonna try the self publishing thing and I think I'm gonna put it out there.

And so I did and I put it out there Owen and Makayla were the were the couple, main couple there. And it's a friends to lovers, second chance romance. So for all of you who love those, that friends to lovers, second chance romance, this is that and so it started off as a short story and because people ask me what's next, like, where's it going?

Then that's when I started writing another, I wrote another part on to it. 48 Hours of Bliss, and then I wrote another part onto it, 72 Hours Too Long. And and then, you know, I put them all together into a boxset, and then I said, you know what, I want to make this boxset just a little bit longer.

And, I really want to dig into Owen and Makayla as nerds in love. And so that's one of the tropes as well. Nerds in love. Because Owen is this computer genius and Makayla is basically she is a marketing guru, but she's downplaying it a little bit to just be one of the guys because of course she was part of the nerd herd and no I did not take that from Chuck. That just came out. 

But, but in essence, with Secret Second Chances, I didn't want to leave these folks. Now, Owen and Makayla, they're in the same universe as as Jason and Fortune. They they, they're just not friends. But they don't really know each other. But they're in the same universe, and I didn't really want to actually leave Owen and Makayla's you know, their circle of friends and I, well, not necessarily their circle of friends, but I didn't want to leave the world that I had created for them.

And so Instead of making Secret Second Chances a standalone novel, it is now part of the Nerds in Love series. Now this series is going to be a series of standalone novels. In other words, you don't have to read them in order. Each book will feature one couple.

So, while Secret Second Chances is featuring Owen and Makayla, there'll be an I've got at least two other books planned out. And they will each feature a different couple. But, they'll all be nerds. In some form or fashion, they will all be nerds. 

And I have, out now, in the in the ebook version, I'm holding up a paperback. Yes, the paperbacks are not out there yet. But hopefully next year they will be out there. But right now, because I have decided to put them in a series, I have decided to put them in a series. I wanted to make sure that you got an idea of the next book. And so, right now, In Secret Second Chances, which is at the moment I'm recording this it is out on Amazon, and at the end of that is a new sneak peek to the next Nerds in Love book. And That nerds in love book is called The One You Slept On. I don't know why I said, what? But it's called The One You Slept On, and and I also am writing a little bit on that one.

That's not the main thing. I will get Jason and Fortune. You'll see, you'll see their wedding first, but I didn't want to leave kind of the world that I had created, which was a very nerdy world. And it's actually very close to, I don't want to say very close to my brand, but it's kind of what I'm about.

I'm a nerd in love, right? I'm a nerd who likes romance. I like nerdy things, and I like romance, and so that's kind of that's what I'm writing about now. That's also what I'm, you know, podcasting about. So we do have a a podcast community.

And it's not just a podcast community. If you're a reader who doesn't listen to podcasts or listen to reader podcasts or fan podcasts, like, like Nerdy Romantics podcast, it doesn't mean that you can't be part of the community because we, we talk about, romance novels. We talk about, yes, nerd pop culture nerdy books we're gonna get into a lot more of the intersection between nerdy and romantic with, you know, sci fi romance and fantasy romance.

We had a romantasy author on Geneva Lee. We had her on the podcast, on an episode of the podcast. And it was just wonderfully enlightening to talk with her. So if you're a fan of any of that, you should be part of the Nerdy Romantics community. You can start off being part of the Nerdy Romantics community by subscribing to the newsletter.

Or, you can really be a part of Nerdy Romantics community by being a member of the ac- of our actual community. I also have a Facebook group, Nerdy Romantics Facebook group. But being on my newsletter is probably the best way to just get started and learn what I'm all about. That in reading my books. But if you subscribe to my newsletter, you will get a copy of Stardate and Stardate is my Trekkie romance story.

And I feel like with Stardate, That basically is the, the best representation of kind of what I like to write about. If my main characters are not actual nerds, I like them to like nerdy stuff. Right? So, I don't write science fiction romance, so these are not actual Star Trek aliens, like, you know, he's not a Vulcan, you know, and she's, , not a, Klingon, you know, it's, it's not like that, so if you don't know anything about Star Trek, you can still read it and still get the gist of it. But the thing is, they are really into nerdy stuff. They're really just regular folks who are into nerdy stuff and who connect on that level. And that's what I like to write about. If they're not actual nerds, they're into nerdy pop culture stuff. Which I'm into. 

So in a nutshell, that's me! And I just want to say to everyone out there whether you are, you know watching this live or whether you're watching this in the replay Or whether you're listening to this on the podcast, yes, this will be a podcast episode. So whether you're listening to this on the podcast, I just want to thank you for for being there for reading my stories or being interested enough to listen or watch here and want to read my stories. I really hope that you enjoy them. They are essentially for all those out there who love a steamy nerdy romance.

These are not clean romances but they're fun. They're fun and yeah, they've got a little spice to them. So I just want to thank everybody for being here, for watching, for listening, and especially for reading. And, come back again. What a great episode. Want to get show notes from this and future episodes in your inbox?

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