A Taste of Craven

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's February 4th, the most important romance holiday in February: Derek Craven Day! We're celebrating this year with a little reminiscing of the past years' episodes, and a close reading of the first chapter of that classic, Lisa Kleypas's Dreaming of You.

Read Dreaming of You at: Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books, or wherever you get your books.

Learn more about the holiday, and the man who inspired it, and listen to past Derek Craven Day episodes on the Fated Mates website.

If you want more discussion of Derek Craven 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.

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0:00.0	A good Derek Craven Day to you, Jen.
0:02.8	Happy Derek Craven to all who celebrate.
0:07.6	It's Derek Craven Day, everybody, our favorite holiday, my favorite day of the year.
0:12.1	A day when we don't have to give anybody a present.
0:14.7	We don't have to cook a fancy meal.
0:16.1	No.
0:16.6	And we can just celebrate by laying in bed and reading the greatest romance novel of all time.
0:24.2	Listen, dream and dream, dream your dreams, everyone.
0:27.3	You too could be from small greenwood corners and save a man in the rookery.
0:33.2	Never give another thought.
0:34.2	A man.
0:34.9	Never give another thought to that killing you did.
0:37.9	It's a great time.
0:40.0	Was had by all.
0:41.5	Welcome everyone to Fade of Mates.
0:43.4	I'm Sarah McLean.
0:44.7	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:47.4	And I'm Jennifer Procopper romance reader and editor.
0:50.3	And this is like a 20 minutes on... A Taste of Craven.
0:55.5	A Taste of Craven is what we're calling this. Yeah. So should we explain for new people?
1:02.9	Yeah. Sure. Are you? That's me. That's me prompting you, my friend. Okay. What happened
1:09.2	February 4th? Because it's Tuesday, everyone.
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