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Season 7 Episode 13
It's Thanksgiving week in the United States, which means capitalism! We're skipping (mainly) the talk of the midnight electronics runs, and heading s…
1 year, 6 months ago
Best Romance Novels of 2024
Season 7 Episode 12
The Best Romance Novels of 2024! This is our favorite episode of the year, where we get to shout at you about the terrific books we read this year, a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Comfort Reads and Finding Solace in Romance
Season 7 Episode 11
Like many people, we don't have much to say this week, and whatever we might have said probably wouldn't have been very eloquent, so we've decided to…
1 year, 6 months ago
November 2024 Bantr+
Season 7 Episode 10
It’s just a very normal first Tuesday in November, and you need — and deserve — a distraction! We’re here to help with an episode that not only avoid…
1 year, 6 months ago
Mermaid Romance with Zoraida Córdova/Zoey Castile
Season 7 Episode 9
Today we're talking mermaids with our friend, Zóraida Cordova, an author of many genres who also writes romance under the name Zoey Castile. We talk …
1 year, 6 months ago
I Read Dead People: Ghosts, Morticians, and the Dead in Romance
Season 7 Episode 8
This is a bit different than our usual Halloween adjacent episodes -- we're talking about the rise of romance centered around ghostly secondary chara…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Seven Deadly Sins: Let's Fire Up Wikipedia
Season 7 Episode 7
Happy anniversary, Firebirds! Seven years ago this week, we launched Fated Mates with our first Episode, "A Wolf Without a Foot," in which we planned…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Everything I Left Unsaid duology
Season 7 Episode 6
We're starting our Season 7 read alongs off with a bang! M. O'Keefe's Everything I Left Unsaid duology is some of the best contemporary romance out t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Some Light Kidnapping: Restraints are for Amateurs
Season 7 Episode 5
An episode for the old school romance readers in the audience, we're talking about kidnapping this week! A trope that either absolutely works for rea…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trailblazer Meg Cabot
Season 7 Episode 4
We are so thrilled to have thee Meg Cabot with us, one of the original queens of YA romance. We talk about her longstanding writing career, about the…
1 year, 7 months ago