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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

07.35: Celebrity + Normie Romance

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Sarah is over the moon that we're talking about celebrities again, especially because we're keeping it tight this time around and limiting it to celebrity/normal person romance (mostly -- Jen is ungovernable)! Yes, Sarah is going to talk about Perfect, but also we're going to talk about celebrities who fall for stranger normies, for normies they knew before they were celebrities, for normies who work with them, and for normies who protect them. The episode is 1200 books long and honestly, we're not sorry.

In case you wondered why Sarah is breaking her rule about talking about her own books, it's that time of year again! Her next book, These Summer Storms (complete with sexy, silent, deeply competent hero) is out in July and is going on tour, and there is a real deal Fated Mates LIVE planned for July 8th in St. Louis, MO! Get tickets to any of these events (Jen will be at a bunch of them, and other pod friends will be popping up along the way) at sarahmaclean.net/tour! If you can't make the tour, you can preorder These Summer Storms signed with a special romance dust jacket from The Ripped Bodice.

If you want more Fated Mates in your life, please join our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

Our next read along is Cate C Wells's Run Posy Run, available right now in print or ebook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited at Amazon, Apple Books, and Libro.fm.

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0:00.0

So last night, Mr. Reed's Romance and I are out in our neighborhood.

0:05.1

In Chicago.

0:06.1

In Chicago.

0:07.0

Okay, there's a great neighborhood named Pilsen that is traditionally Mexican-American.

0:11.9

I want to go there.

0:12.9

Yes.

0:13.3

The food is amazing.

0:14.4

Can we go there when I'm there?

0:15.5

Yes.

0:16.1

And also, the other thing that is, okay, the food's great, Pilsson, but the thing that's really amazing about Pilsen is the unbelievable murals that are painted throughout the neighborhood.

0:26.5

It is truly a great place.

0:29.0

But one of my favorite Mexican restaurants there with my friend Jessica, Jukme 2, now has an outpost in my neighborhood, Hyde Park.

0:35.8

So we went there last day.

0:37.3

It was great. And it's just

0:38.5

like one of those places where you get like great tacos. Oh my God, these plantains that were

0:42.2

amazing. And anyway, we're leaving the restaurant and the, you know, there's this like the beep of

0:47.8

the like Amber Alert, alert, something. It's being pushed out to your phone, right? I think it's not an Amber alert, but you go, I'm

0:54.7

predicting. It is. Listen, Sarah, I fucking kid you not. It said it was a weather alert about a dust storm.

1:02.7

No. And I was like, I am not ready, actually. What in the John Steinbeck? Correct. And we are kind of like,

1:10.3

what the fuck? Like, really? Like, come on. So anyway, we are kind of like, what the fuck?

1:11.0

Like, really?

1:11.7

Like, come on.

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