S03.51: Mistresses, Courtesans, and Cheating in Romance with Adriana Herrera

Adriana Herrera, a FIVE-TIMER, joins us this week to talk about the third-rail of romance…infidelity! We’re talking about cheating, and about all the other bits related to it: mistresses, courtesans, illegitimate children, sex work…and get your pencils ready because (of course) we’re toppling TBRs with this one.

Don’t miss Fated Mates LIVE! to celebrate the release of Sarah’s next book, BOMBSHELL! Join us and some of our very favorite people on August 24th! Tickets are a copy of the book, and available at five participating romance friendly bookstores. Get them here!

Speaking of BOMBSHELL, it is our next read along! Get it at Amazon, Apple Books, B&N, Kobo, or Bookshop.org, or at one of the participating romance-friendly bookstores hosting the Fated Mates Live/Virtual Bombshell Launch! Orders will come with a Fated Mates Sticker!

Thank you, as always, for listening! Please follow us on your favorite podcasting app, and if you are up for leaving a rating or review there, we would be very grateful.


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S03.28: What Makes a Romance Novel a Romance Novel?

Ok, so it’s that time of year and Sarah is on deadline, which means we’re just kicking our next read along episode down the road until she’s done (which she swears will be very soon). So, this week, we’ve got a freewheeling episode that we’ve been thinking about for a while — let’s talk about what makes a romance novel a romance novel (hint, it’s not when the heroine is run over by a train).

Whether you're new to Fated Mates this month or have been with us for all three seasons, we adore you, and we're so grateful to have you. We hope you’re reading the best books this week.

Our next read along is Mary Balogh's A Matter of Class, a short historical novel. Get it for only $2.99 at AmazonBarnes & NobleApple BooksKobo or Google Books.


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11.5: Sports Romance with Jenny Nordbak

Are you a sports ball fan?! Do we have romances for you! We’ve got the brilliant Jenny Nordbak from The Wicked Wallflowers podcast back for a sports romance interstitial! Listen to us chat about why we love sports books, the alpha, competence porn and books by Kennedy Ryan, Tamsen Parker, and Naima Simone!

Next week, it’s (FOR REAL THIS TIME) MacRieve week with Sierra Simone! We’re so excited, and Sierra is the perfect guest for this sex-driven book! Get MacRieve at AmazonB&NApple BooksKobo, or from your local Indie.

Show Notes

Welcome back to our guest Jenny Nordbak from the Wicked Wallflowers podcast!

Everyone loves a trip to the hairdresser.

Here's a list of the RITA finalists, and a link to Jen's new twitter account which tracks her reviews of the finalists.

Author Bronwen Fleetwood crunched a bunch of RITA data from the past 20 years, which is how we know there are more winners named Susan (and Elizabeth, Barbara, Karen, Jennifer, Ann, Jill, Linda...) than WoC finalists.

Famously, the Hugo Awards also struggled with recognizing the best books in their field.

Here's what we are talking about when we talk about how PoC are underrepresented in publishing.

Um, actully Sarah, Ulysses is a twitter thread.

This week, Sarah told a pretty solid competence porn story about her neurosurgeon on Twitter.

Kennedy Ryan has been on the Wicked Wallflowers podcast. Twice.

Content warnings for Long Shot.

Adriana Herrera, author and friend of the Pod, recently wrote a very important piece for the Smart Bitches about how to portray sexual assualt in romance.

Why the Ray Rice elevator video is important.

Jen's written about the whiteness of hockey romances for The Book Queen. Don't believe Jen? Back in 2012, commenter #11 left a plea for more hockey romances on this Smart Bitches post. I bet they are happy now.

Susan Elizabeth Phillip's Chicago Stars series is a romance classic.

There's no crying in baseball.

Jen reviewed all of Tamsen Parker's Snow and Ice Games series.

Olympics atheletes are busy, y'all.

6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon was an amusing 90s pop culture game.

Tennyson is a romance heroine and a famous poet.

Listen to Naima's interview on the Wicked Wallflowers.

Fumbled is a new football romance by Alexa Martin, and it deals with CTE.

Get ready for MacRieve.

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