Will Romantasy Get a Shot at a Big-Time Adaptation?

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca digest a bunch of high-profile adaptation news which leads them to wonder about the prospects of a big-budget romantasy series ever coming to screens, some news around book bannings and censorship, talk about recent reading, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission Discussed in this Episode: Come See us live at Powell's on March 13th The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Book Riot Podcast Newsletter The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram Hulu cans the ACOTAR adaptation STARZ to adapt All Fours Matt! Damon! Is! Odysseus! Nimona creator N.D. Stevenson announces new book LA Times Book Prize finalists Indiana cuts Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library from budget Iowa rushes to advance a bill that would criminalize librarianship Talk to Me by Rich Benjamin Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Soft Core by Brittany Newell Calling In Back After This by Linda Holmes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	Hey everybody, just a note here at the top. We had some technical difficulties with the last
1:04.3	15, 20 minutes of the show. Basically, Rebecca's side is unusable. So I cut it off a little bit at the end of our talk about the Los Angeles book prizes,
1:14.6	and then you hear a little bit at the end.
1:16.7	Come join us at Powell's, March 13th in Portland, Oregon, if you're around.
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