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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
Wife Guys in Romance: Just Look at Her!
Season 7 Episode 3
There's a particular kind of romance hero who makes us feel all kinds of warm and fuzzy, because all he wants to do is stare in awe at his partner an…
1 year, 11 months ago
Fall 2024 New Releases
Season 7 Episode 2
Everything is new and crisp in the fall, as F. Scott Fitzgerald likes to say, and the romance novels are no different! We're starting to think about …
1 year, 11 months ago
The Magnificent (Season) Seven with Kate Clayborn and Adriana Herrera
Season 7 Episode 1
Seven is heaven! Today, we are celebrating seven seasons of Fated Mates and this genre that we just can't get enough of with two people we just can't…
1 year, 11 months ago