RomCon @ Ashland Public Library 5/17/25
In this LIVE un-censored panel on Bucking the Romance Trends, we talked about how we’re forging our own paths in contemporary romance and in the publishing industry! Featuring me, Jenny L. Howe, Riss M. Neilson, and Tara Tai and moderated by veteran author Barbara Tanner Wallace.
Climate Action & Romance 04/10/2025
I joined two irrepressible and brilliant romance authors, Nikki Payne and L.E. Sterling, for a lively and fun virtual chat with Ashland Librarian Meena Jain about the intersection of climate action and romance novels.
A Novel Experience 05/15/2024
Get ready for my high-energy chat with Shay Baby.
Arts Respond 11/17/2023
We’re talking about romance, hope (the concept), HOPE (the book), and climate activism.
The Arts Paper 9/11/2023
For author Margo Hendricks, Romance was a way to explore the very real history of class, race and power in Elizabethan England. For Tara L. Roi, it was a place where she could talk about climate change, and convince readers to listen. Kristal Marquis and Adriana Herrera just wanted to read about people who looked like them—and realized they would have to literally write the book.
In the process, they liberated the genre from its box—and made space for writers, readers and stories whose voices have always existed, but often been gaslit, whitewashed, and asked to edit themselves out of the narrative.
Connecticut Post 3/4/2021
Climate change romance. Environmentally themed romance. Green romance.
In a way, all those terms describe the sort of books Tara L. Roí writes. But, she says, they don’t really capture her style.
“It’s romance that has hot open door love scenes and environmental themes,” says Roí, 48, of New Haven. “But when you say that, it doesn’t sound sexy. It doesn’t sound fun.”
So Roí — whose real name is Rebekah Fraser — came up with her own term to define her work: “glacier-melting romance.”
Together We Can | Juntos Podemos en La Voz Hispana de Connecticut
New Haven activist Caprice Taylor Mendez hosts Juntos Podemos/Together We Can on La Voz Hispana. It was a pleasure to be included on this important show. Next step… get my books translated into Spanish!
Arts Respond on WNHH Radio
Lucy Gellman is editor of The Arts Paper and host of Arts Respond on WNHH radio in New Haven, CT. A consummate pro, she brings interview questions that are on point and right on time. We cover everything from the origin of Glacier Melting Romance to the importance of #ownvoicesbooks . We also talk about creative authenticity (and why I write romance under a pen name instead of using my real name), emotional truth in fiction, and what it means to turn a city (in this case, New Haven) into a character.
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
Stephanie and Joni invited me to join them on the Kobo Writing Life podcast in the fall of 2020. Our chat was so much fun! We covered everything from favorite books to climate change to how I went from writing screenplays to magazine articles and finally romance novels. Check it out!
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