Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Page Powars.

Page Powars is the author of The Borrow a Boyfriend Club and the forthcoming And They Were Roommates. Outside of writing, he helps with music soundtracks and unfortunately plays Genshin Impact. He lives in the New York City area.

In this episode:

• Join the debate on whether John Green is real
• Prepare to become addicted to Genshin impact
• Hear Page's wild story process that made other author's gasp
• Hear about your new favourite character BLAZE ALPHA DESTROYER (he's coming soon and will steal your whole heart)
• Hear about the The Borrow a Boyfriend Club characters as cupcakes
• Will Asher be getting therapy at the beach? Find out here.
• Hear more about And They Were Roommates
• Courtney puts on her hype queen crown to sway Page into writing a romantasy
• You get a tiny Zuko cameo
  

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Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode, you'll hear about:

• Summer England's podcast
• how to nest metaphors
• the use of microcosm in story
• what to feed evil people

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Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Sarah MacLean.

New York Times, Washington Post & USA Today bestseller Sarah MacLean is the author of historical romance novels. Translated into more than twenty-five languages, the books that make up “The MacLeaniverse” are beloved by readers worldwide. In addition to her novels, Sarah is a leading advocate for the romance genre, speaking widely on its place as a feminist text and a cultural bellwether. A columnist for the New York Times, the Washington Post and Bustle, she is the co-host of the weekly romance podcast, Fated Mates. Her work in support of romance and those who read it earned her a place on Jezebel.com's Sheroes list and led Entertainment Weekly to call her "the elegantly fuming, utterly intoxicating queen of historical romance." Sarah is a graduate of Smith College & Harvard University. She lives in New York.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• what's going on Sarah's tombstone
• writing character motivation in romance
• the third act break-up as a beacon of hope
• unlikeable heroines
• the cultural work of genre fiction
• Sarah's advice for reading as a writer
• buttons (and wires) of emotion for readers and writers
• "taking the finger" and why AI will never take over romance novels

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Be brave, stay beastly!