Fated Mates – A Romance Novel Podcast
We’re back in two weeks with Johanna Lindsey’s Gentle Rogue, set on a ship with a heroine-in-pants and a hero who really deserves everything she delivers him. Find it at: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books, or at your local Independent Bookstore!
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Show Notes
- Anyone know if Warby Parker is looking for a podcast to sponser?
- Sarah & Lisa spent time together because they were signing at Nora Roberts's bookstore, Turn the Page, in real-life Boonsboro, MD. Jen had some hard-core FOMO.
-February 4th is Derek Craven Day, look at some of our tweets from that day.
- A reminder of that 1992 election and what we should have learned from Anita Hill. But Stormy Danielsis more in control of her narrative.
- Josh Lyman never calls it a recession, call it a bagel.
- We love Steve Ammidown at the BGSU pop culture library.
- IRL, Matilda was Pamela. But that ending, classic Lady or the Tiger or The Sopranos.
- The second casino is in Devil in Winter, where Ivo Jenner's daughter falls in love with Sebastian, St. Vincent, whom many think is Lisa's best hero. They are wrong.
- We're back on Moonstruck with that mother-in-law and "Bring me the big knife!"
- More about some of those Jungian archetypes.
- Jen meant coitus interruptus in the Urban Dictionary way, not the Merriam-Webster way.
- This article seems to think head hopping is more common in roamance, but I don't know if that's true.
- Close third person POV or Free Indirect Speech & Jane Austen.
- Have you listened to our bodily autonomy episode?
- Dangerous Liasons the book has been around for a long time, but Jen is talking about the 1988 movie.
- "She leaves the gun on the table" is a reference to a famous writing precept by Chekhov.
- Doing spectacles better than F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Gentle Rogue is coming up in two weeks.
- Kelly has some Fated Mates swag and Romancelandia buttons for sale.
- Fated Mates is produced by Eric Mortensen