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Hold by Claire Kent: There is Nothing Soft in this Book
Season 5 Episode 10
We’ve talked about this week’s read along so much it’s kind of impossible to imagine that we haven’t read it with y’all, yet! But here we are, finall…
3 years, 9 months ago
S05.08: Trailblazer Iris Johansen
Season 5 Episode 9
Our Trailblazer episodes continue this week with Iris Johansen, who began writing category romance in the heyday of the format at Loveswept. During h…
3 years, 9 months ago
Spooky Stuff! Halloween Romance
Season 5 Episode 8
It’s spooky season and that means we’re reading spooky stuff! We recommend some of our favorite recent witches and demons and incubii and ghosts and …
3 years, 10 months ago
Redemption Romance Interstitial with Christopher Rice
Season 5 Episode 7
In the very best version of “third time’s the charm,” we are finally welcoming Christopher Rice to Fated Mates! A man of many talents, he writes fabu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Stop Book Banning: A Special Episode of Fated Mates
Season 5 Episode 6
In 2022, book bans in United States schools and libraries are at their highest since the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom started collecting data. …
3 years, 10 months ago
Moonstruck: A Wolf Without a Foot Redux!
Season 5 Episode 5
It’s our 200th Episode and we’re finally doing the thing we’ve been talking about doing for 200 episodes! A full deep dive into one of our favorite —…
3 years, 10 months ago
What to Read If You Liked The Love Hypothesis...
Season 5 Episode 4
Today we start one of our new features for Season Five: If You Liked…Read This! We begin with Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, a book that took r…
3 years, 10 months ago
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas: A Professional Driver on a Closed Course
Season 5 Episode 4
It’s official! Sarah has broken the glass and taken Marrying Winterborne out of the vault and she has exactly as much to say about it as you expect! …
3 years, 10 months ago
Romance Novel Beginnings: Starting With a Bang!
Season 5 Episode 3
Not that kind of bang! We’re talking about beginnings today, on the first interstitial of Season 5! This one edges into a bit more writing shop talk …
3 years, 11 months ago
S05.01: Season Five! Romance World Domination!
Season 5 Episode 1
Season Five starts today, you Magnificent Firebirds!
Season One gave us a full lAD deep dive (if you’ve never read Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark…
3 years, 11 months ago