Women of a Certain Age w/ Deanna Raybourn
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Women of a certain age can do anything - whether it’s being assassins, spinning the threads of fate, or doing witchy things in the woods! From the Fates of Greek mythology to Victorian scientists like Margaret Fountaine, author Deanna Raybourn shows us that older women are capable of doing anything and everything.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of fascism, misogyny, unrealistic beauty standards, ageism, sexual content, racism, and xenophobia.
Guest
Deanna Raybourn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist and a 6th-generation native Texan. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including the Edgar, the Macavity, and the Agatha. She launched a new Victorian mystery series with the 2015 release of A Curious Beginning, featuring intrepid butterfly-hunter and amateur sleuth, Veronica Speedwell. Deanna’s first contemporary thriller, featuring four female assassins who must band together to take out their nemesis as they prepare for retirement—Killers of a Certain Age—published in September of 2022 and won the 2022 Barry Award for Best Thriller.
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. We are learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. |
| 0:44.4 | And I'm Julia. We are so honored to be joined by one of my favorite contemporary writers. It's Deanna Raybourne. Deanna, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. We were so stoked that you said |
| 0:49.6 | yes. So can you, for our audience who may not be familiar with you, tell us a little bit about |
| 0:54.8 | yourself and what you do. |
| 0:56.5 | Sure. |
| 0:57.1 | I am a transplanted Texan. |
| 0:58.8 | I live in Virginia. |
| 0:59.9 | I have been writing for, God, I think I've been published for about 16, 17 years now. |
| 1:04.7 | My 20th book is getting ready to come out. |
| 1:07.2 | Congratulations. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.8 | I write both Victorian mystery and contemporary thriller. |
| 1:13.4 | The contemporary thriller side of things is new. I'm only getting ready to launch my second one in |
| 1:19.7 | that vein, but it's been incredibly successful. I'm excited to do more with that. |
| 1:24.2 | And that is where I want to start, because I am so interested, A, in promoting |
| 1:29.8 | people picking up killers of a certain age and kills well with others, the first book in the series, |
| 1:35.3 | which I highly recommend. And it follows a group of women with a lot of life under their belts, |
| 1:40.5 | women who are a little bit older than I think a typical protagonist, especially in a thriller genre. Can you tell us a bit about what made you so excited to kind of approach |
| 1:49.4 | this brand new genre in thrillers, this new setting of contemporary? And though we have lots of |
| 1:56.2 | women in all kinds of age ranges in the Veronica Speedwell novels that I think are fabulous. |
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