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

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This year's Fated Mates Live was a little different than those we've hosted before, as it was also launch day for Sarah's These Summer Storms! We celebrated in style in the Midwest, hosted by the fabulous team at indie bookstore (and romance lovers), Novel Neighbor and joined by our absolute favorite, Kate Clayborn.

So many Firebirds turned out to celebrate with us from across the midwest to help Sarah learn the intricacies of Midwestern Romance Heroes™️, to talk about Derek Craven and others, and to celebrate Storms in style. The audience was, unfortunately, without microphones, so some of the event has been edited from this recording, but we hope you'll get the vibes -- and learn a little about the midwest! (We apologize for the Indiana and Connecticut shade within.)

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us -- we couldn't have asked for a better event, or a better launch day for These Summer Storms. Thank you for reading, for hanging, and for standing in an endless line to meet us and spend a little of your rainy Tuesday with us!

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Eric. I produced the show.
0:03.8	I feel like it's been a while since I've popped up in your feed,
0:08.6	but I'm here today just to introduce the ThetaMates Live episode.
0:16.3	I had to cut out a couple of moments from this episode where people in the audience were talking
0:22.7	and you couldn't hear what they were saying.
0:26.0	So I just cropped those sections right out.
0:29.9	I don't think you'll feel it to be particularly jarring or disjointed, but I just wanted
0:34.4	to let you know that there are a couple of things that were there in the live moment,
0:40.3	but are not present in the recording.
0:44.3	This was the first Fated Mates Live that has happened without me in attendance,
0:50.3	and it felt weird not to be a part of it.
0:55.0	I kind of had the feeling that I was not necessary in this instance,
1:02.0	and that it wouldn't really matter one way or the other,
1:06.0	but in the moment when it was happening live and I was at home not there, I felt it. Being in the
1:13.6	Fated Mates Live room full of happy people and feeling like maybe I play a small part in
1:20.4	helping bring that joy. It's great feeling. It's one of those things that, you know, can keep me going for a while.
1:31.1	So that will not happen again.
1:34.3	I don't know when the next Fated Mates live will be, but I'll be there.
1:39.7	So we're going to run this live episode this week,
1:43.1	and then next week I'll find something
1:47.1	else to run, and then we'll be back for a whole new season, doing what we do, somehow
1:55.1	still.
	...

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