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Fated Mates is a romance novel podcast co-hosted by author Sarah MacLean and critic Jen Prokop. Weekly episodes include romance novel read-alongs and discussions of the work of the genre, hi...
We Love Paris in the Springtime and we love Paris in The Paris Match by our very favorite, Kate Clayborn. Today, we’re talking about the Cit...
This season, we’re expanding our traditional Trailblazer series to include the romance writers who are trailblazing today. Our first guest o...
By request, we’re talking about the characters who have been exiled from family, from community, and from themselves—the irredeemable charac...
As always when we’re together, today we’re answering listener questions! In here, we’re recommending sex lessons books, motorcycle romance,...
It’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking...
It never fails to surprise us when we realize we’ve never talked about a really classic trope even now…eight years in. This week, we’re talk...
Someone said something real stupid, and that means we get to hit back in the best way possible — with romance recommendations! Today we’re t...
Calling all Loons! You’ve heated and reheated the rivalry, and now it’s time for us to talk about what you should read between now and Seaso...
Things are looking very wild out here in the real world so you deserve a deep dive on a book by an author with a big backlist and we are her...
Continuing our series on Romance Vibes, we’re talking about Romance Wardrobe this week! We’re talking corsets and chemises, falls and Hessia...
Our old pal Billy Shakes told us that music is the food of love, and we’re taking that to heart this week! By request from Eric (who’s never...
This weekend, the world is celebrating the second most important romance holiday in February (see last week’s episode for the most important...
It’s finally happened! In a perfect Derek Craven Day celebration, our Trailblazer conversations continue this week with thee Lisa Kleypas, h...
It’s a snowstorm, Jen’s from Chicago, and we’re feeling extra qualified to talk about Ice Planet Barbarians! It’s the book, and the series t...
The brilliant Jayne Ann Krentz, romance trailblazer and royalty, joins us this week to talk about one of her favorite tropes--the shotgun we...
As it's the beginning of 2026, we're talking about how we think about our reading years. What kind of strategies does Jen use? How is Sarah...
Sarah's still catching up, but Jen, Adriana Herrera , and Joanna Shupe have seen it and they have a lot to say .
Your discoverabilibuddies are back! It's a new year which means we're dropping our Winter 2026 reads episode, in which we talk about the mil...
Another year, another chaotic New Year's episode, with one of our favorites, the Lauren half of Christina Lauren! Y'all. When we say headpho...
It's that time of year, when we highlight some of our favorite new voices in romance! This week, we're talking about eight new writers who a...
We’re so excited for our deep dive of KJ Charles’s The Magpie Lord , first in her magical, gothic series, A Charm of Magpies. We talk about...
It's winter, which means that it's time to get cozy, build a blanket nest on the couch, and read a million books one right after the other i...
The end of the year is nigh, and it's our holiday romance novel episode! We're talking about a collection of romances that are entirely new...
It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of h...
We had a great week, and so we decided we all need nice things, which means it's time to just talk about the stuff we love in romance. We're...
We definitely have a hope became reality hangover this morning, but we also have a very fun episode for you today! We're talking romance sho...
It's Halloween which means we're talking about monsters (complimentary)! We've done devils and witches and an entire season on monsters of a...
It's Gorilla Twins Week! We couldn't be happier to be talking about The Earl Takes All , a book we love so much we gave it a nickname that a...
How is it possible we've never done a governess episode? And how is it possible Louisa Darling hasn't been a guest on the pod yet? We're rec...
We're thinking about Chicago, DC, and LA this week, and standing in solidarity with the people living and resisting in those cities. While r...
It's October, which means we're thinking about fall, which comes with spice, heat and hanging out under the blankets! Today, our Fall 2025 r...
Our fave, Adriana Herrera, is with us this week to talk about feminism, romance, and how the two intersect. We talk about the history of the...
Season Eight! How is it possible you're all still here?! We're so incredibly thrilled to have you all with us for another season. We've got...
This year's Fated Mates Live was a little different than those we've hosted before, as it was also launch day for Sarah's These Summer Storm...
We’re wrapping up season seven by asking ourselves a simple question. Do we like this stuff? Yes? No? Maybe so? We’ll be back in two weeks f...
Joanna Shupe joins us this week to celebrate her new book, The Gilded Heiress, and talk about one of our favorite things—baddies with a hear...
It’s Bodyguard Romance week, which feels impossible, honestly, considering we’ve definitely done this before, haven’t we? According to Eric...
We're back with a deep dive episode on one of our favorite Susan Elizabeth Phillips books, Natural Born Charmer . Jen thinks this one marks...
By request (and because Sarah needed books for her upcoming trip), we're talking about romance novels by Australian authors this week, with...
It's been several years since the last time we talked about the allure of competency in romance, but it's a topic we adore, so here we are a...
Our Trailblazer series continues with Pamela Sanderson, the first Native American author to write contemporary romance about Native characte...
Last night’s Fated Mates Live was so much fun , but now we’re back in your earholes. It’s time again for our annual Sarah MacLean deep dive...
We're thrilled to have audiobook queen and Voice of the Summer ( USA Today ), Julia Whelan with us today! Aside from being the voice of Emil...
We're both staying very still in front of air conditioners this week, so that means we're very very happy to have a pile of summer reads at...
This week, we're talking about romance's most common family: the dysfunctional one! Sarah wrote a book about one, so we're thinking about wh...
We're taking a second run at second chance romance this week, and while we intended to recommend a million books, we ended up talking about...
Another deep dive episode, and this one feels like it shouldn't have taken so long! We're reading Run Posy Run, talking about the way Cate C...
Sarah is over the moon that we're talking about celebrities again, especially because we're keeping it tight this time around and limiting i...
One of the og romance tropes is on the table today -- we're talking about heroines who are on the shelf! It's not quite wallflowers, not qui...
We're gonna get people excited with this one (it's us. we're the ones who are getting excited). Back by popular demand, we're talking craft...