Transcripts! Every Episode You Can Read

Jul 29, 2021

Although podcasting's primary form is in audio, I believe the information on Shelf Love should be available for all. Podcasts don't work for everyone, for lots of reasons, so my goal is to create transcripts for every episode.

Here's a little bit about my process for creating transcripts: starting in Spring of 2020, I started editing my episodes using a program called Descript, which creates a computer transcription of my raw audio and then allows me to edit the audio content using the transcription. As I go, I inevitably have to clean up proper nouns, fix speaker labels, and generally do lots of clean up of the transcription. I actually find it really helpful to edit this way and it’s about 25% extra effort to clean up the transcription as I go. Every episode that I edited completely in Descript is published from day 1 with a transcript.

All of the episodes that came out before I started editing with Descript need to go through the same process - but without the audio editing. For an hour of audio, it takes at least 2 hours to clean up the transcript. Since I’m on a bit of a treadmill of releasing weekly episodes, I don’t have a ton of time to also edit transcripts of older episodes, but I am slowly but surely working my way back. This is a one-person operation, folks. The service costs me money and the transcription takes time, but I think it’s worth it and I’d rather spend the time revisiting the older episodes myself than spend it trying to raise money to pay someone else to do it. (What can I say: I like the sound of my own voice. It’s a hazard of the hobby.)

Until 100% of my episodes have transcripts, this page will hopefully help those who want to read episodes, rather than listen, find the transcripts that are available.

Here are all of the episodes that have transcripts. Every episode page has the complete suite of information for the episode: the audio player, the show notes, and beneath that, the transcript, so keep scrolling until you hit the transcript.

• 005. Time Served by Julianna Keyes with Kini Allen
• 011. A Midnight Feast by Emma Barry/Genevieve Turner with Kate Clayborn
• 020. Denise Williams on Teaching Romance Novels
• 038. A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare with my BFF Becky
• 042. The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan with Adriana Herrera
• 044. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles with EE Ottoman
• 045. History in Romance with Katrina Jackson, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Felicia Grossman
• 046. A Conspiracy of Whispers by Ada Harper with Bree (from Kit Rocha)
• 047. Rose Lerner Double Header with Shelf Lovely Jess
• 049. Blind Date With A Book Boyfriend by Lucy Eden with Katrina Jackson
• 050. Romance Myths Busted Part 2 with Tamara Lush, Charish Reid, Megan Erickson, Rosie Danan
• 051. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham with Hannah Hearts Romance
• 052. The Modern Romance Canon
• 053. Tasha L. Harrison Writes Romance For Black People
• 054. A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole with Tasha L. Harrison
• 055. Nicole Falls: Imposter Syndrome in the Time of Coronavirus
• 056. I Think I Might Love You by Christina C. Jones with Nicole Falls
• 057. Black Romance Podcast: An Oral History (New Podcast Preview)
• 058. East Asian American Romances with Cultural Historian Hsu-Ming Teo
• 059. A Sordid Journey into Romance Podcasting
• 060. Romance Research with Jayashree Kamble
• 061. Alphaholes with Jodie Slaughter: Unpacking Problematic Faves
• 062. Transculturalism & Wuxia in My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas
• 063. The Three Waves of Romance with Eric Selinger
• 064. Women in Pants: Unpacking Problematic Faves
• 065. Glitter Pirates in Glitterland by Alexis Hall
• 066. African Diaspora Conjuring Practices in Popular Culture
• 067. Everyday Black Magic
• 068. Happily Ever Existential Dread
• 069. Scarlett Peckham and the Problematic House Party
• 070. Consensual Non-Monogamy in Romance Novels - Shelf Love x Monogamish
• 071. Personal Favorite Romances from 2020 with The Swoonies
• 072. I Just Have A Lot of Feelings
• 073. Structuring Romance: The Secular Scripture pt 1 with Dr. Angela Toscano
• 074. Ma'am, this is Problematic: The Secular Scripture pt 2 with Dr. Angela Toscano
• 075. Jennifer Crusie: Nothing But Good Times Ahead
• 076. Generous Curiosity - Strange Love by Ann Aguirre with Whoa!mance
• 077. Twilight Fan Fiction: Climbing into a Can of Worms with Jodie Slaughter (part 1)
• 078. Romance Curious: Bridgerton So Hashtag Diverse (with Jodie Slaughter, part 2)
• 079. There's Only One Heart: Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant (Crossover with Boobies & Noobies)
• 080. I Now Pronounce You Colonialism, Capitalism, & White Supremacy
• 081. From History to histories
• 082. Critical Reading as Liberation from Mimicry of the Powerful
• 083. Earth is Ghetto: Joyless Hags Book Club
• 084. Captive Romance: Problematic Favorite Tropes
• 085. Reflections on 2020 Listener Favorite Episodes, 2021 Plans
• 086. Sex Education & Romance Novels: Not Medical Advice (with Dame Jodie Slaughter)
• 087. Clutch Your Pearls & Think of New England
• 088. 9 Reasons Why Rare Romance Books Matter, with Rebecca Romney (#7 will surprise you!)
• 089. Problematizing Romance: You Can't Consume Your Way Out of Oppression
• 090. Taboo Lite: Joyless Hags Book Club
• 091. Guilty Pleasures with Dr. Arielle Zibrak
• 092. I've Got No Roots: White Immigrant Assimilation & (Romance) Adaptation