07.39: Dysfunctional Families (The Fun Kind)

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking about romance's most common family: the dysfunctional one! Sarah wrote a book about one, so we're thinking about what makes them special to romance, and what sets the romantic dysfunctional family apart from the ones that live outside of the genre. Jen has five categories. There's a game involved. You can play along at home!

If you love this one, you can listen to our Daddy Issues (not the fun kind) episode with C. Travis Rice. And if you just want to listen to an episode about Daddies (the fun kind), we've got you.

Sarah's book, These Summer Storms is out in three weeks and she is going on tour! What's more, 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.

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The Books

The Filthy Rich Americans series by Nikki Sloan
The Uptown Girls Series by Joanna Shupe
The Dukes in Disguise Series by Louisa Darling
American Royalty by Tracey Livesay
Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria
One and Only by Jenny Holiday
The Billionaire’s Bargain by Naima Simone
Lead by Kylie Scott
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole
The Player by Kresley Cole
Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre
Darkest Sins and Sweet Prison by Neva Altaj
The Dangerous Royals Series by Annika Martin
Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Transcript

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0:00.0	So somebody messaged me on threads today, and I thought it would be fun to bring this to the table.
0:07.8	Ozzie Empath messaged me publicly, and she said, is Derek Craven Day still a thing?
0:15.4	Because dang, I need a day in solidarity with others to think about his greatness.
0:22.6	And I replied February 4th.
0:25.5	Because Derek Craven Day is indeed February 4th.
0:31.1	And you, that is our day.
0:32.8	Our day of celebration and solidarity.
0:36.0	This came because Sange asked about.
0:38.2	We're still doing collections,
0:39.6	and if you are interested
0:41.7	when you went up this week that Sange did,
0:44.6	we had her on a Derek Raven Day, right,
0:46.8	to talk about the other,
0:48.3	the Claypice hero continuum.
0:50.4	The pantheon of Claypus heroes.
0:52.4	And it was all about, like,
1:11.9	characters who wear glasses. And the thing that was really funny is she was doing some, and this is like, you know, I do like seeing this. Like it was originally a thread where she was kind of like, hey, when you think of glasses and romance or whatever. And so it was really funny to see like what people, you know, kind of like wrote about or mentioned or books. Would you believe by the time I got in there like 14 hours
1:17.4	later, there were 60 people in that in that thread, not one mention. The outrage of Mr. Craven.
1:24.8	I mean, you know, he did it first, he did it best.
1:28.8	Know your betters, everyone.
1:31.3	You guys don't know this, but Derek Craven invented the idea of grinding lenses.
1:35.8	I mean.
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