The first season of CLEWS: The Podcast is all about the world's worst femmes fatales. Barely a month old, and with only five episodes, CLEWS is already global. Besides the USA, we have listeners in Germany, Canada, the UK, India, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, and France. Fifteen countries, four continents - so far.
I've always thought the true crime genre is WAY too American and WAY too focused on What's Happening Now and WAY too masculine in subject selection. The world is about to prove me right! Meanwhile, the world has utterly neglected its real-life femmes fatales. Although there are dozens of movies and fiction books, and dozens of academic books about the femme fatale as an archetype, the actual ladies themselves mostly languished in total obscurity until I started writing in this subgenre of true crime with my first encyclopedia in the theme, THE BEAUTY DEFENSE, named by Marie Claire one of the best true crime books of the year. I happen to think it's a nice piece of research too.
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