Sometimes there’s a writer who’s so transformative to your experience as a reader that you forget she even was a part of it until you remember, and then you remember every book she’s written. It’s Sandra Brown week here at Fated Mates, and we have loved so many of her romances that we just didn’t know what to read, so strap in, because both Jen and Sarah read Texas! Chase, and then two roads diverged, only to discover some real deep-rooted kinky stuff. Strap in. This one left Eric shellshocked!

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In two weeks, we’re reading a book that blooded Jen, Jenny Crusie’s Bet Me! Which you can get bundled with Welcome to Temptation (get this one — it’s $2. cheaper than getting Bet Me alone!) from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo … and don’t forget your favorite indie, which is probably shipping books right now and definitely needs your patronage!

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Show Notes

Jen's been thinking about how we're going to archive the Quarantine Times and so are historians. Steve Ammidown was kind enough to make some videos about archiving for Jen's TikTok.
Turns out that tweet about the Spanish epidimologist was not true! Blessed be the fact checkers.
Lori Lightfoot is Jen's mayor and her Coronavirus memes are the best.
Everyone knows who Tom Brady is, but not many people seem to like him.
Sandra Brown was in the first class of authors acquired by Vivian Stephens. Her Loveswept #1 was Heaven's Price, and her Harlequin American Romance #1 was Tomorrow's Promise. Steve Ammidown was also kind enough to dig into the archives and pull out some early interviews with Sandra Brown and about the founding of Loveswept.
Benjamin Dreyer definitely wants you to know the difference between the em dash, en dash, and the hypen.
The Rana Look cover has the author and McLean Stevenson from MASH as the cover models. Whoa.
You can still join the Doubleday Book Club. Who knew!
Jeff Wright has a very funny TikTok (which he crossposts to Twitter and Instagram) and a very distinctive way of saying Oh Wow.
Sheikhs & Native Americans in romance are full of racist, harmful stereotypes.
Jennifer Porter took the hit on Texas! Lucky for us.
Oil Futures aren't looking good for the Tyler family; it's not looking great for the rodeo, either.
The primordal 80s Don. Not him. That was the 70s.
Sunny Chandler's job as a Mardi Gras costume designer seems pretty sweet. Here's a cool interview with Patricia Halsell-Richardson, a woman who designs Mardi Gras costumes in Mobile.
A quick primer to the waves of feminism and what people thought about working women in the 80s.
Sandra Brown's house was blown up for an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. A show that is making a comeback, as it turns out.
Ann Richards was pretty great, and so is her daughter Cecile.
GQ has some instructions on how to be a DILF, but our current favorite is by Katee Roberts.
Slow Heat in Heaven has a plot about dogfighting, but Sarah mentioned a romance where the dogs fall in love back when we talked about non-Sandra Brown category romances.
The 80s Primetime Soap Operas were a force to be reckoned with.
Next time, we'll be talking about Bet Me by Jenny Crusie. For some reason, it's cheaper to buy it bundled with Welcome To Temptation. /rolls eyes at eBook pricing on a 20 year old book.