Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes
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| S4.E6 - Getting Paid as an Author after Publication | 21 févr. 2025 | 01:13:09 | |
It's all numbers and percentages this week as Naomi and Melissa walk us through the financial breakdown of publishing a novel from the authors point of view.
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| S4.E5 - Book launches, Marketing and Publicity | 14 févr. 2025 | 00:58:21 | |
Melissa and Naomi walk us through everything they learned and experienced with the releases of the debut novels and reflect on how differently they approach the publicity and marketing of their books now.
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| S4.E4 - Signing a Book Deal | 07 févr. 2025 | 01:09:39 | |
Naomi and Melissa compare notes about their first book deals and are surprised at how different some of their experiences were.
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| S4.E3 - Going on Submission with an Agent | 31 janv. 2025 | 01:07:07 | |
In this one we're chatting about what happens between signing with an agent and going out on submission to try and secure a book deal.
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| S4.E2 - Finding an Agent | 24 janv. 2025 | 01:06:30 | |
We're back with more publishing myths and this week it's all about literary agents.
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| S4.E1 - Writing Your First Manuscript | 17 janv. 2025 | 01:12:13 | |
This season, we're diving into the many myths and tropes of publishing a novel. From inception to writing, to querying agents, working with editors, and all the way through to publication. We're covering everything we've heard and learned about publishing.
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| S3.E10 - New Adult or maybe Crossover | 10 mai 2024 | 01:04:17 | |
On this season finale we are jumping in on the much discussed topics of new adult and crossover, what they mean and where they fit into the publishing spectrum.
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| S3.E9 - Sports Romance | 03 mai 2024 | 00:58:11 | |
This was a fun one! None of us have much experience with this genre and so it was a massive learning curve but I think it might have inspired us to pick up some Ice Hockey romance!
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| S3.E8 - Cosy Crime & Fantasy | 12 avr. 2024 | 00:55:52 | |
Jamie and Melissa are loving the rise of cosy genres at the moment and get into some really fun tropes in this one, whilst Naomi wrestles with how wholesome it all is!
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| S3.E7 - Psychological Thrillers | 05 avr. 2024 | 01:01:34 | |
Naomi takes point on this one telling us all about one of her absolute favourites, the Unreliable Narrator. Jamie and Melissa try to chip in as well.
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| S3.E6 - Paranormal Romance | 29 mars 2024 | 00:57:32 | |
Some Harry Potter follow up at the start and then we jump into some familiar tropes in the fun genre fusion of paranormal romance!
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| S3.E5 - Contemporary Fantasy | 15 mars 2024 | 00:56:01 | |
Fantasy is in a fascinating spot right now with romantasy being more popular than ever and Brandon Sanderson breaking crowdfunding records left and right, so on this episode we jump into what has become a very popular part of all this, contemporary fantasy settings.
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| S3.E4 - Crime and Mystery | 08 mars 2024 | 00:52:18 | |
This week we're onto crime and mystery tropes, so it's all detectives, law enforcement and being trapped together!
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| S3.E3 - Romantasy Tropes | 01 mars 2024 | 00:41:08 | |
Continuing the theme of the season, this episode we each pick a romantasy trope! If you want a deeper dive on each of these we did an entire 10 run season dedicated to romantasy.
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| S3.E2 - Horror Tropes | 23 févr. 2024 | 00:50:03 | |
This season we are going to pick our favourite tropes from the genres that we discussed and think might be popular this year in publishing. First up, our favourite horror tropes!
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| S3.E1 - Publishing Trend Predictions for 2024 | 16 févr. 2024 | 01:02:15 | |
We're back and we're kicking off the year with some predictions for what we think is going to be popular in the world of writing, books and publishing for 2024! Shoutout to our friends over at the WriteMentor Hub for all their helpful suggestions!
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| S2.E10 Trope Tier List 2 | 07 juil. 2023 | 00:55:05 | |
To wrap up our second season, the loosely romance themed one, we're going back to the tier list. Tune in for lots of arguing about which trope goes where and whether we agree with where we put some of the tropes from season 1.
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| S2.E9 - Forced Proximity | 09 juin 2023 | 00:43:58 | |
Making two characters who would never otherwise spend time together is always a great recipe for conflict and intrigue, but there is a pretty intense dark-side to this one.
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| S2.E8 - Stalking as Romance | 02 juin 2023 | 00:42:15 | |
It's weird, creepy and rarely works but we get into the weeds with this one. This trope is pretty toxic.
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| S2.E7 - Miscommunication | 26 mai 2023 | 00:42:05 | |
It's a weird one to talk about because it only really comes up when it's done badly. Tune in to hear us try and define it, whilst constantly contradicting our own definitions but sort of, vaguely getting close to an understanding by the end. Maybe.
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| S2.E6 - Opposites Attract | 19 mai 2023 | 00:41:18 | |
Opposites Attract is a classic but does it need some sprucing up? Can it sometime be used as an excuse to cover up some troubling issues?
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| S2.E5 - Forbidden Love | 12 mai 2023 | 00:40:09 | |
We all know it from Romeo and Juliet, but we went a bit darker than I think any of us expected in this episode. Maybe it was forbidden for a reason!
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| S2.E4 - Grumpy and Sunshine | 05 mai 2023 | 00:43:30 | |
Always interesting to see people coming together, clashing and eventually overcoming their differences to bond and become closer than they could ever have imagined. Or is it?!
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| S2.E3 - Fake Dating | 28 avr. 2023 | 00:40:12 | |
Fake dating and relationships come in more shapes and sizes than any of us realised. It's not just Noah Centineo movies!
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| S2.E2 - Enemies to Lovers | 21 avr. 2023 | 00:34:04 | |
Enemies to Lovers to rivals to friends. It's an unending rollercoaster of twists and tales. Tune in to hear about how much we love this trope even though we know it can be very problematic!
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| S2.E1 - Slow-Burn Romance | 14 avr. 2023 | 00:30:21 | |
Well paced and satisfying or drawn out and boring. Hear all about how Melissa approached the slow burn romance in her brand new novel, 'My Love Life and the Apocalypse'.
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| S1.E10 - Trope Tier List 1 | 17 mars 2023 | 00:59:09 | |
To wrap up our first season, we're kicking off our tier list. Tune in for an extra long episode of us arguing about which grade to assign to each of the tropes we've talked about on this, our first season.
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| S1.E9 - Helpless Window Deaths | 03 mars 2023 | 00:35:29 | |
Heart-wrenching, infuriating or something else entirely? Here's one we'd never really thought about before but once we started down the rabbit hole, it turned out to be much deeper than expected.
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| S1.E8 - Badass Female Characters ft. Kesia Lupo | 24 févr. 2023 | 00:33:24 | |
Special guest episode! Author and editor Kesia Lupo is here and she's put one of her most disliked to the team. It's the trope of super strong, badass female characters who cannot be stopped but often leave you feeling like they're missing something.
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| S1.E7 - Prophecies and Chosen Ones | 17 févr. 2023 | 00:35:35 | |
"It’s one thing to think that you’re the center of the universe—it’s another thing entirely to have this confirmed by an ancient prophecy." - Douglas Adams
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| S1.E6 - Forced Motherhood | 10 févr. 2023 | 00:34:16 | |
Why is it that so many female characters have their journey totally redirected at the last second to make room for a pregnancy. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's perfect, but a lot of the time it feels like a character goes through an epic quest, overcoming odds and finding their truth to end up coming to a complete stop in order to have a baby and thus, complete a character arc that never existed.
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| S1.E5 - Orphans and Absentee Parents | 03 févr. 2023 | 00:39:03 | |
Sometimes it can feel like there are more orphaned fictional characters than not. But is the trope really all that bad? Naomi and Melissa have both written characters with absentee parents in their books, and they're all for it!
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| S1.E4 - Mary Sue and Gary Stu | 27 janv. 2023 | 00:41:35 | |
What started out as a parody of old school Star Trek fan fiction has transcended its humble origins and evolved into a term that is liberally used to describe hundreds of characters in books, television and movies. Let's get to the bottom of it, what is a Mary Sue and what's the issue?
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| S1.E3 - Killing Mentors | 20 janv. 2023 | 00:32:34 | |
Shoutout to all of the mentor characters, risking their lives in service of a protagonist who would probably be lost without them! Tune in to hear us chat about the Sean Bean of character archetypes and our verdict on the trope of them always dying.
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| S1.E2 - Love Triangles | 13 janv. 2023 | 00:43:01 | |
A problematic polygon of paramores. Tune in to find out which of us is team Love Triangle!
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| S1.E1 - Unreliable Narrators | 06 janv. 2023 | 00:43:06 | |
Is there such a thing as a reliable narrator? Tune in for our totally 100% reliable ramblings on the subject!
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| Trailer | 05 janv. 2023 | 00:00:38 | |
Bookish, writer friends Jamie, Melissa and Naomi talk about their favourite tropes, their least favourite tropes and everything in between!
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