How Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo Started a Romance Publishing Imprint

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re chatting with the founders of 831 Stories (and hosts of the fantastic A Thing or Two podcast) Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo! They share what drew them to the romance genre, why they started a romance entertainment company, and what makes a good sex scene. They also give us the scoop on 831’s first novella, Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff, and the universe around it.

Obsessions

Becca: The Perfect Couple on Netflix

Olivia: Journaling

What we read this week

Olivia: One of The Good Guys by Araminta Hall

Becca: All Fours by Miranda July

This Month’s Book Club Pick: All Fours by Miranda July (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Hi everyone welcome back to Bat on Paper Podcast I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia Mentor. And today we're joined by Claire Mezer and
0:26.1	Erica Serulo who are the founders of 831 stories which is a very exciting new romance
0:32.0	publishing company and I am so excited to get the inside
0:37.7	scoop from them about starting a publishing brand.
0:43.2	Yes, I love talking to women that are doing cool new things
0:46.3	and you've probably seen the cover of their first book
0:49.8	but this company everywhere.
0:51.1	So now you get the background story on it. Yeah well before we get to that
0:56.2	interview tell me about your high. My high is that I had an absolutely jam-packed weekend of fun things this past weekend.
1:04.4	So on sat, it was like back to back. I was just all the fun things.
1:09.6	On Saturday, Jake and I went to Brimfield, Flea Market.
1:13.2	Have you ever heard of this?
1:14.2	I had, yeah.
1:15.8	For those that don't know, it's like a gigantic antique flea market,
1:20.8	huge, like county fair style almost like miles and miles and miles of vendors
1:26.4	and I've always wanted to go so we went on Saturday it was extremely overwhelming
1:31.6	like extremely did you get anything do you buy It was extremely overwhelming. Like, extremely.
1:33.4	Did you get anything?
1:34.6	Do you buy anything?
1:35.6	We did.
1:36.6	We got maybe five things.
1:37.6	We got some like Ottomans.
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