RERUN: Moonstruck: A Wolf Without a Foot Redux!
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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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ANNIVERSARY RERUN: We're Gonna Come Back to Biting
We started this podcast in October of 2018! Eight years and 420 episodes later, we came back to biting . Join Fated States tomorrow, Novembe...
S09.08: Halloween Grab Bag
It’s demons and death and decorative gourd season, and we’re talking about all of them, along with sewer monsters and twelve-foot tall skele...
RERUN: Devils in Romance Novels
Early voting is happening in most states , with the remaining few coming online in the next few days. Enjoy this Season six episode on the w...
S09.07: Why Horror with Stephen Graham Jones and Becky Spratford
We’re talking about the mythmakers again this week with a chat about romance’s sister genre, horror! We’re joined by NEA fellow, Bram Stoker...
RERUN: Vampire Romance Novels
Revisit this season four episode on your way to or from your local No Kings March! The Rest For even more info about this episode, and to ex...
S09.06: Fated Mates: You Are Our Mystical Battery
This one is very meta (complimentary): Fated Mates (the duo) explains Fated Mates (the trope) on Fated Mates (the podcast). We can’t believe...
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...
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...