Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

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We’re getting down to the wire with IAD, but because we’re completists, we’re tackling the Dacians in two weeks with a two-for-one episode featuring both of these Lothaire spinoff stories, Shadow's Claim (featuring demon-sorceress Bettina and Dacian assassin Trehan) & Shadow's Seduction (featuring Caspion the demon and Mirceo the vampire prince)!

Show Notes

- Wecome back, Kate!

- The Grassy Knoll isn't much of a knoll, anymore. But if you're ever in Dallas, check out the Sixth Floor Museum.

- This kind of teabagging does not appear on the Clayborn Scale.

- YA Author Carrie Ryan has smart things to say about first person and scary things to say about zombies.

- Famous for having a big reveal: The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense, and The DaVinci Code. Not famous for a big reveal: Meet Joe Black.

- We should have asked Adriana Herrera about Dimitri's trauma.

- Rocky was also a self-made man, and you cannot even convince Jen that the person who invented CrossFit didn't rapturously watch this a million times.

- Dryer's English is a book that all the writing nerds had a pre-order, and he has strong opinionsabout exclamation points, but absolutley nothing to say about sexclamation points.

- Everyone loves foreshadowing.

- But in romance, no one loves an unreliable narrator.

- Jen recommends the YA novel One of Us is Lying, or you could kick it old-school and watch Roshomon.

- Pre-order Brazen and the Beast! and Love Lettering! And read Jen's interviews with Reese Ryanand Marie Tremayne and Robin Lovett on Kirkus.

- In two weeks, we're back to IAD with the Dacian two-fer: Shadow's Claim & Shadow's Seduction!