The most listened to romance novel podcast, Fated Mates is co-hosted by bestselling author Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop. Weekly episodes include romance novel read-alongs and lively discussions of the work of the genre, highlighting the romance novel as a powerful tool in fighting the patriarchy…with absolutely no kink shaming.
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episode 9: Horns, Claws, or Wolf Hologram: An AMA with Sarah & Jen
Show Notes
- Update: Jen got THREE books for Christmas this year! These two from her brother, and her best friend gives perfect, #onbrand books. Sarah got Thomas Madden's Venice and the Great British Bake Off coloring book. Does that count as a book?
- Sarah loves The Great British Baking Show, so you should watch. Or maybe you would just like to admire silver-fox, Paul Hollywood.
-Here's a 1979 New York Times article about this new craze sweeping the nation: hand-raised pies. Everthing old is new again in Sarah's house!
- Jen no longer has the decorative wooden book item, but she does like to window shop for glass jars full of...things.
- "You can put your weed in there" is an old SNL joke.
- Gatsby's books are a symbol, but maybe more than you wanted to know about how books are put together and how pages are cut.
- Read some more AMAs if you're in the mood, and you know Jen can't wait to read that first one.
- Strawberry Rhubarb pie is Sarah's favorite, and although Jen didn't mention it, a favorite pie she makes every summer is Strawberry Margarita pie.
- Our favorite pie shops in Houston, Northern Michigan, Chicago, and Brooklyn.
- Charlotte Stein and Sophie Jordan are auto-buys, and A Kingdom of Dreams and Dreaming of Youare comfort reads. Sarah's most re-read IAD book is Sweet Ruin, and Jen's is Demon from the Dark.
- Kresley announced in her newsletter a few months ago that the next IAD book is Munro (he's Uilleam's twin brother).
- It's not only romance where we talk about unlikable heroines, but it's also that we only ask women authors if their female characters are likable.
- A quick overview of Gender essentalism.
- A very long twitter thread where all of Romancelandia picked their IAD dream cast.
- Olivia Dade made a list of cinnamon roll heroes.
- The ultimate romance rule is HEA or GTFO (Happily Ever After or Get the Fuck Out). There's also HFN, or Happy For Now. Here's the rest of Jen's Romance Rules.
- More about the the problematic fave
- Your Kink is Not my Kink, a very useful way to be respectful when something just isn't your jam. Also, Sarah would like to remind you that decent people don't yuck other people's yum.
- Jen could write odes to the arms of Linda Hamilton and Angela Basset forever.
- Aidan Quinn, then and now.
- We'll be ringing in 2019 with Neomi and Conrad.