S09.05: Sweet Treats: Bakeries and Patisseries in Romance
We’re talking about romance with baking and sweet treats today! This is one of romance’s most common Romance Jobs, and we’re getting to the...
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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast
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...
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RERUN: I Read Dead People: Ghosts, Morticians, and the Dead in Romance
Just revisiting an episode from last autumn. Enjoy! The Rest For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates ha...
S09.04: Fall 2026 Preview
It’s discoverabilibuddy time! We're dropping our Fall 2026 reads, in which we talk about an outrageous number of romance novels coming out i...
RERUN: Sweater Weather: Romance Novels with Fall Vibes
Today we're celebrating the season with some help from season six. Enjoy! The Rest For even more info about this episode, and to explore eve...
S09.03: Hammered, Nailed & Drilled: Romancing the Tool
As they say on the Discord, this year’s theme is…Themes! This week, we’re talking about hammers, nails, drills, pipes and more — literal cha...
S09.02: Romance by Numbers
This is a fun one! We’re talking romance novels with numbers in the titles today, a wide collection of books from zero to infinity! While we...
S09.01: Cloud Nine: Romance in the Sky
Nine seasons of talking about romance, and no signs of quitting! We’re starting a new season, full of much of our same old nonsense, now wit...
RERUN: S06.10: Men in Fur: Aliens, Warlords, and Vikings
Today we're revisiting a 2023 episode. It's a fun one. While the episode is unchanged, we did spend a full hour of our morning updating the...
S08.49: A Rogue By Any Other Name
It’s the end of Season 8 (what! how!), and we usually celebrate the end of the season with a read along of Sarah’s new book, but since there...
S08.48: Long Live Historicals, Volume II
We are once again celebrating a wide swath of historical romances that are recently published and by authors we’ve not talked much about on...
S08.47: Romance Tattoo
We’re talking tattoos and body art this week! You might not have a tattoo, but odds are you’ve read a few thousand of them, as romance novel...
S08.46: Photographers in Romance
Why is photography so hot? We’re tackling this question this week, talking about why romance novels featuring photographers work so well and...
RERUN: S04.17: Roy Kent Redux
Show Notes Roy Kent screensaver video Diamond Dogs Book Club The Rest For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated...
08.45: Judith McNaught's Perfect: Content Warning, the 90's
We’ve been talking about the end (almost end) of this one since we started the podcast, so it seemed high time we did a deep dive on it! Jud...
RERUN: S03.48: The Ted Lasso Episode: Is Roy Kent a Romance Hero?
Just revisiting an old fav as we approach season four of Ted Lasso. Show Notes Diamond Dogs Book Club The Rest For even more info about this...
S08:43: Romance with Magical Elements
The last few years have brought a wave of romances with magical elements—not really paranormal, not really witches, not really contemporary...
S08.42: Romance Reasons Meet Thriller Reasons with Anders de la Motte
Once upon a time, Sarah went to Sweden and met a thriller writer who likes talking about the rules of writing in genre as much as we do. We’...
S08.41: Country House Parties
It’s summer, so we’re talking Country House Parties! We’re skulking around, having scandalous meetings in cupboards, getting caught in the r...
BONUS: Sports Romance Rerun + Jen Chats with Gina Prodan Kelly [FIXED]
F1! WNBA! NY Nicks! World Cup! We swear we're not turning into a sports podcast, but we did feel like it's a great time to rerun our most re...
S08.40: Summer 2026 Preview
We’re filling summer reading lists and making sure that you have plenty of beach reads ready for whatever your plans are! It’s hard to belie...