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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

The most listened to romance novel podcast, Fated Mates is co-hosted by bestselling author Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop. Weekly episodes include romance novel read-alongs and lively discussions of the work of the genre, highlighting the romance novel as a powerful tool in fighting the patriarchy…with absolutely no kink shaming.

Spring 2026 Preview

97 hours 38 mins; March 31, 2026

Romance Baby: Not the Secret Kind

97 hours 58 mins; March 24, 2026

Ballet and Opera in Romance

98 hours 54 mins; March 17, 2026

Heated Rivalry Read-Alikes with Christopher Rice

104 hours 8 mins; March 10, 2026

Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife by Julia Wolf

101 hours 55 mins; March 03, 2026

The Chemise Protects You From Boning: Romance Wardrobe

88 hours 20 mins; February 24, 2026

Chart Topping Songs and Their Perfect Romance Novel Pairings

121 hours 2 mins; February 17, 2026

A Dozen Roses for Valentine’s Day

126 hours 56 mins; February 10, 2026

Trailblazer Lisa Kleypas

118 hours 10 mins; February 03, 2026

Ice Planet Barbarians

89 hours 33 mins; January 27, 2026

Shotgun Weddings with Jayne Ann Krentz

93 hours 9 mins; January 20, 2026

Setting New Year's Reading Resolutions

89 hours 8 mins; January 13, 2026

BONUS: Fated Mates All Stars talk Heated Rivalry

65 hours 15 mins; January 08, 2026

Winter 2026 Preview

120 hours 36 mins; January 07, 2026

Jen & Sarah's New Year's Milkin' Eve!

99 hours 7 mins; December 31, 2025

RERUN: Here Comes Santa Claus

60 hours 49 mins; December 24, 2025

Terrific 2025 Romance Debuts

113 hours 14 mins; December 16, 2025

KJ Charles’s The Magpie Lord: We’re Gonna Get to the Tattoos

104 hours 4 mins; December 09, 2025

Fantastic Romance Series

90 hours 25 mins; December 02, 2025

RERUN: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

94 hours 10 mins; November 28, 2025

Holiday Romance 2025

101 hours 7 mins; November 25, 2025

The Best Romance Novels of 2025

111 hours 30 mins; November 18, 2025

Our Favorite Romance Microtropes

87 hours 3 mins; November 11, 2025

Romance Short Stories and the Ladies in Waiting Anthology

130 hours 1 min; November 04, 2025

RERUN: Spooky Stuff! Halloween Romance

64 hours 42 mins; October 31, 2025

Romance Demons: Problématique (Italics)

83 hours 13 mins; October 28, 2025

Gorilla Twins! The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath

82 hours 44 mins; October 21, 2025

Governesses with Louisa Darling

103 hours 36 mins; October 14, 2025

We love you Chicago, DC and LA

120 hours 28 mins; October 07, 2025

Fall 2025 Preview

111 hours 54 mins; September 30, 2025

Feminism in Romance with Adriana Herrera

113 hours 18 mins; September 23, 2025

Cold Open: Craft, Criticism, and Summer Vacation

100 hours 17 mins; September 16, 2025

RERUN: Daddy Romance

74 hours 29 mins; September 10, 2025

Between Seasons Palate Cleanser: Fated Mates Live St. Louis!

76 hours 57 mins; September 03, 2025

Season Seven Ends Not With a Bang, but With a Kombucha Girl

74 hours 51 mins; August 26, 2025

Con Artists & Criminals With Joanna Shupe

88 hours 54 mins; August 19, 2025

Bodyguards

90 hours 23 mins; August 12, 2025

Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

88 hours 37 mins; August 05, 2025

Reading Down Under: Australian Romance Novelists

98 hours 37 mins; July 29, 2025

Relentless Competence & Fixers in Romance

90 hours 18 mins; July 22, 2025

Sports Romance with Jessica Luther

83 hours 54 mins; July 19, 2025

Trailblazer Pamela Sanderson

96 hours 44 mins; July 14, 2025

Jen & Sarah and These Summer Storms

121 hours 44 mins; July 09, 2025

Audiobooks with Julia Whelan

138 hours 10 mins; July 02, 2025

Hot 2025 Summer Reads

119 hours 36 mins; June 26, 2025

Romance's Dysfunctional Families (The Fun Kind)

85 hours 27 mins; June 17, 2025

Second Chance Romance Redux

99 hours 9 mins; June 10, 2025

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

162 hours 26 mins; June 03, 2025

Celebrity + Normie Romance

116 hours 20 mins; May 27, 2025

RERUN:[Sex on the] Beach Reads

66 hours 52 mins; May 20, 2025

On the Shelf with Spinsters and Wallflowers

80 hours 10 mins; May 13, 2025

The Third Act Break-Up (Complimentary)

88 hours 12 mins; May 06, 2025

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

94 hours 10 mins; April 29, 2025

Ruination!

113 hours 23 mins; April 22, 2025

Romance on the Run

94 hours 38 mins; April 15, 2025

RERUN: These Books Bang: The Sexiest Romance Novels

77 hours 12 mins; April 12, 2025

Getting Things Done (to them): Romance with Lists

92 hours 42 mins; April 08, 2025

Spring 2025 New Releases: Teasing Your TBR

116 hours 44 mins; April 01, 2025

RERUN: Jeannie Lin: Trailblazer

90 hours 20 mins; March 30, 2025

RERUN: Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin: Some Real Hero Sh*t

81 hours 32 mins; March 30, 2025

Everything We Know About Horses Comes From Romance

136 hours 59 mins; March 25, 2025

What I Did for a Duke: This Gentleman is Completely Composed of Revenge Molecules

86 hours 56 mins; March 18, 2025

Romance Novels With a Ticking Clock

105 hours 17 mins; March 11, 2025

Sci-Fi Romance: There's No Book Banning in Space

99 hours 12 mins; March 04, 2025

He's *NOT* a Billionaire

114 hours 50 mins; February 24, 2025

Long Live Historicals!

128 hours 24 mins; February 16, 2025

Adriana Herrera on the Power of Historical Romance: When We’re Up Against a Corner, Baby, Let’s Fight.

125 hours 50 mins; February 11, 2025

New York Public Library Best New Romance List

22 mins; February 11, 2025

Meet My Vibe Criteria: V.E. Schwab on writing, obsession, and romance outside of Romance

97 hours 28 mins; February 04, 2025

A Taste of Craven

22 mins; February 03, 2025

Tarot, Astrology, and Psychics in Romance

96 hours 40 mins; January 27, 2025

Back in Time with Harlequin Blaze

103 hours 48 mins; January 21, 2025

RERUN: Trailblazer Loretta Chase

77 hours 46 mins; January 18, 2025

RERUN: Lord of Scoundrels: Reel or be Reeled

95 hours 34 mins; January 18, 2025

Winter 2025 New Releases: The Quarterly Edging Episode

104 hours 2 mins; January 13, 2025

The Proposition by Judith Ivory

104 hours 6 mins; January 06, 2025

Hear Me Out: New Year's Eve 2024

187 hours 25 mins; December 30, 2024

Holiday Romances for 2024: Put It in the Lilly Library

110 hours 36 mins; December 17, 2024

Excellent 2024 Debut Romance Novels

95 hours 48 mins; December 09, 2024

Getting Pearl Jammed: Romance After 40

113 hours 40 mins; December 03, 2024

Bookstores and Booksellers

88 hours 40 mins; November 24, 2024

Best Romance Novels of 2024

89 hours 40 mins; November 19, 2024

Comfort Reads and Finding Solace in Romance

80 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2024

November 2024 Bantr+

72 hours 0 mins; November 05, 2024

Mermaid Romance with Zoraida Córdova/Zoey Castile

85 hours 53 mins; November 04, 2024

I Read Dead People: Ghosts, Morticians, and the Dead in Romance

113 hours 22 mins; October 26, 2024

The Seven Deadly Sins: Let's Fire Up Wikipedia

116 hours 7 mins; October 22, 2024

The Everything I Left Unsaid duology

115 hours 10 mins; October 15, 2024

Some Light Kidnapping: Restraints are for Amateurs

110 hours 40 mins; October 06, 2024

Trailblazer Meg Cabot

111 hours 32 mins; October 01, 2024

Wife Guys in Romance: Just Look at Her!

103 hours 48 mins; September 22, 2024

Fall 2024 New Releases

121 hours 54 mins; September 17, 2024

The Magnificent (Season) Seven with Kate Clayborn and Adriana Herrera

105 hours 43 mins; September 10, 2024

Stop Book Banning 2024

146 hours 34 mins; September 03, 2024

College Bound: New Adult Romance

84 hours 28 mins; August 27, 2024

Daddy Issues (not the fun kind) with Chris Rice

101 hours 56 mins; August 20, 2024

Mafia Romance Reasons

99 hours 56 mins; August 13, 2024

Wicked and the Wallflower: The Bareknuckle Bastards Begin

160 hours 36 mins; August 06, 2024

Romance Novels with Paris 2024 Olympics Vibes

69 hours 34 mins; July 29, 2024

Romance and The New York Times Best 100 Books List

104 hours 47 mins; July 23, 2024

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