296 Chelsea Curto | From Flight Attendant to Bestselling Romance Author

amazing um i have a question i've spoken to a few uh sports romance authors i have to ask what is it about hockey that has made it just the like rise above all other sports in terms of sports romance as a genre

i think it goes with And this sounds really like counterproductive to romance, but I feel like it kind of goes hand in hand with how violent they can be almost because, you know, you see like I'm a big basketball fan.

But in basketball, there's you can't shove someone to the ground.

You can't throw a punch at someone like there's very strict rules and and these other sports and hockey kind of.

it kind of breaks all the rules.

It's a welcome part of the sport.

So you have that tension.

You have the forced proximity of a very long season taking place over 82 games.

So you have things like traveling and, you know, schedules and, um, Then you could have the main character's ex who plays for a rival team and the guy's allowed to punch him on the ice because it's hockey and no one's batting an eye.

So I think there's a lot of layers to it.

But I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen more like rugby romances because I feel like rugby kind of goes hand in hand with that fierce... strong kind of i don't know i've watched a couple rugby clips and i'm like why are more people not writing about rugby romances because this this has a lot of potential as well yeah

Okay, yeah.

It's interesting because I hadn't thought about it from the logistics point of view.

And yeah, you're so right.

When you have those kind of scheduling, all the scheduling is kind of already there, which is all the forced proximity, which just plays so well into romance.

And it's like, are they

going to travel together? Are they not going to travel together? He's been gone five days.

He misses her so much, you know, versus football where they play... well, I don't even know what they do anymore, 17, 18 games, but it's only one day a week.

So they're home a lot of the time.

You take out a lot of that opportunity for missing someone and that emotional depth.

So yeah, it's really funny that hockey...

Because hockey is not the number one sport in America.

And I know it's not the number one sport anywhere.

So I think that kind of layer of...

Yes, Canada, yes.