Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

It’s one of our favorite tropes this week — get your pens out, because we’re talking about about a thousand books that tackle Partner in Danger! You know what we’re talking about: “Oh no! This person I sometimes bone is in danger! WAIT! I am feeling feelings!!!” It’s great. We’re going to talk about why. Sarah would like to apologize in advance, because it was really hot in her house when we recorded, and it scrambled her brain.

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Next week, it’s erotica week! We’re reading a book that Sarah loves, Nikki Sloane’s Three Little Mistakes, which we’ve talked about before on the podcast, but we want to deep dive on. Get Three Little Mistakes from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo … and don’t forget your favorite indie, which is probably shipping books right now and definitely needs your patronage!

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Show Notes

As of last week, going outside looks like a pretty safe thing to do.

In fact, there is less central A/C in New York City. So watch out for the window units.

Zoom fatigue is real.

You know, there is quite a large assortment of "Dorothy in the Sheets, Blanche in the Sheets" merch on Etsy. In case you need to talk a call from your editor.

We all struggle with the illusion of control.

The trope of the damsel in distress has been around for a long, long time. So let's not fridge more women, mm'kay.

Friend of the pod Adriana Herrera has some words of wisdom about writing trauma in romance. And also Jen and Adriana did a Facebook Live chat on the topic. (link & audio forthcoming).

Pour one out for planes. And cars. And alcohol from mysterious European lands.

In case you missed Blood Blow Jobs: please refer to Fated Mates Season One, Lothaire and Rune.

Jen looked it up a map. In Reborn Yesterday, the heroine is dropped onto the Belt Parkway, not the Long Island Expressway. Still seems bad.

Edward saved Bella from a careening van in the school parking lot. And from a bunch of drunk guys.

The Most Dangerous Game is a pretty great short story, classically used to teach person v. person conflict.

Morality Chain is a great trope. Look for an upcoming interstitial on this topic soon!

In Pretty Woman, she rescues him right back.

Preorder signed copies of Daring and the Duke from WORD bookstore in Brooklyn and you'll get swag from Sarah and this special yellow Fated Mates sticker.

Books referenced this week:

Judith McNaught's Perfect

Lisa Kleypas's It Happened One Autumn, Devil in Winter & Dreaming of You

Joanna Shupe's The Prince of Broadway & The Devil of Downtown

Kresley Cole's Lothaire

Milla Vane's A Heart of Blood And Ashes

Tessa Bailey's Reborn Yesterday

Emmy Chandler's Hunter

Claire Kent's Hold

Stephenie Meyer's Twilight

Molly O'Keefe's Everything I Left Unsaid, The Truth About Him, Burn Down the Night & Wait for It

Sarah's Wicked & the Wallflower, Brazen & the Beast, Daring & the Duke, The Rogue Not Taken, and No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

Sierra Simone's American Queen

Kati Wilde's Hellfire Riders

HelenKay Dimon's The Secret She Keeps

Robert Munsch's The Paper Bag Princess

Nana Malone's Protecting the Heiress

Kresley Cole's The Master