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S06.38: Curvy Heroines #3: Curvy Girls Get Railed in Carriages, Too

One of our most popular interstitial topics, we had to come back for a third run at Curvy Heroines this month in celebration of Bridgerton-mania online and our absolute delight that we finally get to see Penelope get that handsome man who is just back from his long trip to glow-up-land (we deserve nice things, and so do curvy heroines)! Sarah’s talking exclusively about historicals today, and Jen is bringing new-to-the-pod authors to the table…all that, and we’re naming the six historicals Sarah’s written with curvy heroines (There’s also a contemporary! Check the photo array, below). This one is a lot of fun.

Our next read along is Joanna Shupe’s The Devil of Downtown, from her Uptown Girls trilogy. It’s Jen’s favorite in the series. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple or your local indie.

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Show Notes

You can visit the Sleeping Beauties Exhibit at the Met, which sounds pretty fascinating, is there all summer through September 2nd.

All about smelling salts, Kardashian levels of rib removal which is called tight lacing, Each and Every brand deodorant, and retinol. If you’re interested historical fashion and lingerie, follow Cora Harrington on twitter, she wrote about corsets on her blog back in 2012. If you’re interested it watching a guy talking about cologne, here is link to Joshua Godfrey, the guy with the labyrinth tattoo and his journey.

If you loved Fury Road, you should read Blood, Sweat, and Chrome, which is the story of how the movie was made. Here’s a supercut of Tom Hardy grunting.

If you missed the first two Curvy Heroines episodes, you can catch up here and here.

Books Mentioned This Episode

Nine Rules by Sarah Maclean

A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah Maclean

Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

Knockout by Sarah Maclean

A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah Maclean

Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen

Wicked Bargain for the Duke by Megan Frampton

No Accounting for Love by Megan Frampton

Second Night Stand by Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters

The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne

Hunting for a Highlander by Lynsay Sands

Only for the Week by Natasha Bishop

Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas

Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas

Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James

Trick Shot by Kayla Grosse

40 Love by Olivia Dade

Dearest Rogue by Elizabeth Hoyt

The Scandal of it All by Sophie Jordan

S06.35: All About Dukes (in Romance)

This one is for our historical lovers! We’re talking about everyone’s favorite title — Dukes! We get to the bottom of many duke questions, including: Why so many? Why are they always dukes? What’s wrong with princes? How do these guys make their money anyway? What’s with all the normies inheriting dukedoms? What about duchesses? And more! Please remember that everything we are about to say is romance fact. Don’t @ us with real life fact. We don’t want it.

Happy anniversary to our founding Patreon members — it’s one year of our Patreon and our Discord today! We love you a whole lot. Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as we do at patreon.com/fatedmates.

Show Notes

The tree thing about pollen and allergens is called botanical sexism (god it’s everywhere) and this claim, like all things, is complicated.

Defining the title of duke. What are the corn laws or the laws about chimney sweeps? You don’t really care—it’s just fossils.

The Reformed Rakes podcast had a recent episode about pregnancy.

The Unites States Congress is comprised of incredibly wealthy people.

In 2009, Tatler got 10 of the 24 living non-royal dukes to sit down for lunch. There’s a photo. It’s exactly what you would expect. This 2021 article from Tatler lists the 4 living single dudes that either are or will be a duke. Shoot your shot, ladies.

Question: has Sarah really written more dukes than fewer?
A Duke: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, The Rogue Not Taken, A Scot in the Dark, The Day of the Duchess, Daring and the Duke, Heartbreaker, The Duke of Christmas Present, and A Duke Worth Falling For (9)

Not a Duke: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord, A Rogue by Any Other Name, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover, Wicked and the Wallflower, Brazen and the Beast, Bombshell, and Knockout (9)

Books Mentioned this Episode

Devil's Bride by Stephanie Laurens

The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah Maclean

Duke Most Wanted by Celeste Bradley

Lady Be Bad by Megan Frampton

The Duchess by Sophie Jordan

A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

A Duke Goes Down by Sophie Jordan

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

The Duke Who Ravished Me by Diana Quincy

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah Maclean

Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

Duke of My Heart by Kelly Bowen

The Duke of Dark Desires by Miranda Neville

Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas

Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught

Waking Up with the Duke by Lorraine Heath

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loreitta Chase

Day of the Duchess by Sarah Maclean

A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah Maclean

S05.45: Emotional Navy SEALs: Divorced Main Characters in Romance Novels

After literal years of requests for this one, we’re finally tackling the divorced main characters in romance! We talk about romance between grown ups, about bad exes and good ones, about marriages that were mistakes and ones that help characters learn. This one is full of contemporaries and historicals, and you definitely don’t want to miss it.

After Sarah’s Knockout (preorder it signed, with exclusive FM swag, from her local bookstore), our next read along, the first of Season Six, will be Laura Kinsale’s Flowers from the Storm. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or from your local indie.

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