06.32: Secret Babies, Friends-to-Lovers and More — Books we love with tropes we don’t

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This is the first of three episodes inspired by the incredible time we had at Fated Mates Live in Brooklyn. During the event (which was so so fun we love every single one of you who came!), we asked guests Nikki Payne, Kate Clayborn and Lauren Billings of Christina Lauren to choose an interstitial topic they would like us to tackle on the show. Lauren chose a great one: Exceptions to our rules, meaning…tropes we don’t care for that are done really really well. So! This one is for everyone who’s ever asked Jen for Secret Baby or Virgin Heroes and anyone who’s ever asked Sarah for Friends to Lovers or Spies. We talk about the books that make us go…not that…but maybe that? — We also want to thank the following publishers and authors for their incredible generosity in making sure that almost every attendee of the Live went home with a romance novel. We are so lucky to share Romancelandia with you: Avon Books, Ballantine Books, Blue Box Press, Dell, Grand Central/Forever, Gallery Books, Lauren Blakely, LJ Evans, Pippa Grant, Ana Huang, Parker S. Huntington & LJ Shen, Elle Kennedy, Avery Maxwell, Ava Miles, Max Monroe, Kathryn Nolan, Amari Nylix, Meghan Quinn, Piper Rayne, P Rayne, Stephanie Rose, Lucy Score, & TL Swan.

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0:00.0	Hi all this is Sarah and the episode you're about to listen to is the first of three in a
0:07.7	row that are inspired by the incredibly fun time we had at Beta Mates Live in Brooklyn at the William Vale Hotel in March.
0:18.4	We were so excited to see so many of you alongside our friends Nicky Payne, Kate Claiborne and Lauren Billings of Christina
0:27.0	Lauren for what was an incredibly fun time filled with raucous laughter and really fun conversation. If you get a
0:39.1	chance go look at the pictures of the crowd that are in show notes this week. We are so so
0:45.8	thrilled that we got to spend time with all of you. But we want to make sure that
0:50.0	we also say thank you to the authors and publishers who sent books and goodies for
0:56.3	nearly every attendee of the the podcast. We did not expect such an incredible outpouring from authors and
1:05.4	publishers and thanks to all of these people almost every person in the room
1:10.8	walked away with a book a romance novel and that's honestly all we want out of these events.
1:20.0	So we want to thank Avon Books, Blue Box Press, Grand Central Forever, Gallery
1:26.0	books, and Penguin Random House for their incredible generosity. And also we want to
1:31.6	thank Lauren Blakely, L. J. Evans, Pippa Grant, Anna Huang, Parker
1:36.6	Huntington and L. J. Shen, L. Kennedy, Avery Maxwell, Ava Miles, Max Monroe, Catherine Nolan, Amory Nylix, Megan Quinn, Piper
1:46.4	Reign, Preen, Stephanie Rose, Lucy Score, and Teel Swan for being so great and sending books to attendees. It was such an
1:57.1	incredible treat to be there with all of you and such an incredible thing that
2:02.4	those publishers and authors did to make sure that everybody got to
2:05.6	celebrate romance that night by taking something home. We also want to thank the Rip
2:09.7	Bottus for being on site and I think that's it without further ado here's this week's
2:16.0	episode. Hi Sarah. You know it is a beautiful day out there and it is we are recording in between a New York earthquake and a Midwestern eclipse.
2:31.1	Yeah we are we're getting too, but I think we're not getting the full one. Are you getting full darkness?
2:37.0	No, we get like 95% though. We're pretty close to the path and so...
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