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A mug is a mug until it's your boyfriend.

This week we're talking bout sentient object romances.

Headphones in (your ears)!

#sentient objects #romance novels #romance books #inanimate object #vera valentine #holly wilde #Spotify

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Need something to read? Here are 10 titles we've talked about on the show that are currently priced at $1 or less. (Two of these incur the additional psychological cost of reading about Christmas in April.)

Pam Godwin's DELIVER Bella Andre's THE LOOK OF LOVE Farrah Rochon's DELIVER ME Katee Robert's THEIRS FOR THE NIGHT Parker Hayes's APT 3SOME: 1 Nicola Davidson's THE DEVIL'S SUBMISSION Farrah Rochon's HUDDLE WITH ME TONIGHT Cynthia Sax's THE GOOD ASSISTANT Cora Seton's THE NAVY SEAL'S CHRISTMAS BRIDE Celia Grant's A CHRISTMAS GONE PERFECTLY WRONG

We talked DELIVER in Antiheroines, THEIRS FOR THE NIGHT and APT 3SOME in Menage, THE LOOK OF LOVE, DELIVER ME and A CHRISTMAS GONE PERFECTLY WRONG in Families, THE DEVIL'S SUBMISSION in These Books Bang, THE GOOD ASSISTANT in Boss/Assistant, HUDDLE WITH ME TONIGHT in Sports, and THE NAVY SEAL's CHRISTMAS BRIDE in Friends to Lovers.

#friends to lovers #book deals #romance books #romance recs #menage romance #sports romance #romance deals

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fated-mates · 7 days

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Romance-Leaning Daddy Books👆👇 Erotica-Leaning Daddy Books

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Four seasons in, we’re just throwing caution to the wind now. It’s Daddy week! Yes, that kind of daddy. No, it’s not for everyone, but it is for us and we’re talking about the whys and hows and wtfs herein. Headphones in, obviously.

Links to all books can be found in show notes.

Released: 7/18/22

#daddy romance

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fated-mates · 8 days

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The joy of paperback romance novels…

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fated-mates · 8 days

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And if you haven't seen the photos we posted from Fated Mates Live, please do so now. Get ready for a joy bomb.

This is the first of three episodes inspired by the incredible time we had at Fated Mates Live in Brooklyn. During the event (which was so so fun we love every single one of you who came!), we asked guests Nikki Payne, Kate Clayborn and Lauren Billings of Christina Lauren to choose an interstitial topic they would like us to tackle on the show. Lauren chose a great one: Exceptions to our rules, meaning…tropes we don’t care for that are done really really well.

So! This one is for everyone who’s ever asked Jen for Secret Baby or Virgin Heroes and anyone who’s ever asked Sarah for Friends to Lovers or Spies. We talk about the books that make us go…not that…but maybe that?

Thanks to Pippa Grant, Charis Michaels, and Adriana Herrera for sponsoring this week's episode.

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This is the first of three episodes inspired by the incredible time we had at Fated Mates Live in Brooklyn. During the event (which was so so fun we love every single one of you who came!), we asked guests Nikki Payne, Kate Clayborn and Lauren Billings of Christina Lauren to choose an interstitial topic they would like us to tackle on the show. Lauren chose a great one: Exceptions to our rules, meaning…tropes we don’t care for that are done really really well.

So! This one is for everyone who’s ever asked Jen for Secret Baby or Virgin Heroes and anyone who’s ever asked Sarah for Friends to Lovers or Spies. We talk about the books that make us go…not that…but maybe that?

Thanks to Pippa Grant, Charis Michaels, and Adriana Herrera for sponsoring this week's episode.

#secret baby #friends to lovers #spy romance #romance novels #podcast #romance tropes #Spotify

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fated-mates · 9 days

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Been reading/listening to Sandra Brown’s Texas! romances the last few weeks to give my brain a break from so much clinical work, and I’m kind of obsessed with the Tyler family. All their hollering and yelling and storming out of rooms, their unhinged levels of horniness. these people will NEVER go to therapy. incredibly soothing. I will miss them.

#sexclamation! points

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fated-mates · 15 days

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This week, we’re talking about FILM ADAPTATION AND ROMANCE NOVELS with Yulin Kuang, filmmaker and romance novelist.

We discuss her work as both a screenwriter and director (she’s writing and directing the adaptation of Emily Henry’s Beach Read), and her debut romance novel, How to End a Love Story, set inside the writers room on a television show between the author of the books the show is adapting (the heroine) and one of the writers in the room (the hero). We talk about why romance adaptations are so difficult to find, why they don’t often hit quite like we expect, and we pitch a few books we’d like to see Hollywood take a crack at.

#yulin kuang #breach read #emily henry #book adaptation #romance novels #film adaptations #Spotify

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fated-mates · 16 days

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We've talked about Talia Hibbert a number of times on the show, and we devoted this season four episode to one of our favorite recent contemporary romances, GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN. It's a straight shot of sexy joy directly into readers' hearts.

#Talia Hibbert #Get A Life Chloe Brown #Fated States #Seth MacFarlane #Characters With Disabilities #Disability In Romance #Artist #Handyman Romance #Cats #Cats In Trees #Characters Who Are Very Horny For Each Other #Best Literary Grandmas #Romance Grandmas #Bucket List Romances #Spotify

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Get it for $2

#book deals #romance deals

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fated-mates · 17 days

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The question on everyone's mind:

Do werewolves in the path of totality shift during the eclipse? We don't know either, but we once interviewed astrophysicist Summer Ash on the show! Give it a listen and read a werewolf book to celebrate this great day!

And how does an eclipse affect your chances of being moonstruck? Or is that essentially the same question?

#werewolf #moonstruck #moon #astrophysics #eclipse #Spotify

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There are no wallflowers in space!

Voyage back to 2019 when we first investigated SPACE ROMANCE.

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fated-mates · 21 days

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You can get Uzma Jalaluddin's HANA KHAN CARRIES ON for $3 right now. It's a total delight. So much so that we did a deep dive in season four.

#uzma jalaluddin #contemporary romance #Toronto #The Folio Society #Stephen Fry #The Immigrant Experience #Immigrant Joy #Food Romance #Epistolary Romance #Podcasting Heroines #Family Romance #book deals #romcom #Spotify

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We’re finally diving into alpha submissive romance novels during this deep dive of HEATHER GUERRE'S PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT. We’re talking about the way some romances do such immense work today—this one really digging into something that romance usually steers clear of…money.

We know money and power are inexorably intertwined, but what does that really mean when relationships are budding, and when sex is on the line? How do power dynamics shift and move, how does money impact our ability to be honest in a relationship, and most importantly, should billionaires exist?

All that and we finally get to the bottom of the Alpha submissive kink, why Sarah thinks it’s great, and why it just doesn’t move Jen. And for those of you who’ve been asking for years, Sarah’s doing a mini interstitial in here about books that feature alpha submissives — enjoy!

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fated-mates · 24 days

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Season three of Ted Lasso really dropped the ball. Here's 👆 an episode from a happier time. We recorded this after season one. We knew a romance hero when we saw one. Jen went wild with he show notes on this one.

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We recorded this one ☝️ after season two. The YouTube video is the Roy Kent/Fated Mates screensaver you never knew you wanted.

The last 👇 in our Ted Lasso trilogy is the DIAMOND DOGS BOOK CLUB, where we recommended romance novels for every single member of the Richmond Team…and Trent Crimm, of the Independent. It's a massive list of books!

#ted lasso #roy kent #romance hero #diamond dogs #romance books #podcast

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fated-mates · 28 days

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Links to all the books we discussed and more can be found in SHOW NOTES.

Thanks to Hannah Murray, Tobie Carter, and Meghan Quinn for sponsoring this week's episode.

An absolute classic for a reason, we’re talking about BEAUTY AND THE BEAST today — about the trope itself, about how the 1991 Disney movie brought it back to life (yes, we see you, Dain), and about why we love the vibe of scarred and broken men in a castle being found and renovated by whip smart, bookish heroines. Spoiler: It’s patriarchy.

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fated-mates · 29 days

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An absolute classic for a reason, we’re talking about BEAUTY AND THE BEAST today — about the trope itself, about how the 1991 Disney movie brought it back to life (yes, we see you, Dain), and about why we love the vibe of scarred and broken men in a castle being found and renovated by whip smart, bookish heroines. Spoiler: It’s patriarchy.

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