Intro: A Wolf Without A Foot
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Fated Mates! Author Sarah MacLean and critic Jen Prokop launch their fan podcast about Kresley Cole’s Internationally bestselling paranormal romance series, Immortals After Dark. Sarah and Jen introduce themselves and the series, and talk about its place in the romance genre. Topics include feminism, patriarchy, modernity and Moonstruck. Yes, the one with Cher. Also included, an introduction to the first book in the series, A Hunger Like No Other…the book they’ll be rereading for Episode 1.
Buy A Hunger Like No Other at Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, or your local indie.
Show Notes
- Jen wrote about A Hunger Like No Other twice: a Throwback Thursday review, and a look at how the book covers changed over time.
- A definition of the Fated Mates trope.
- Sarah wrote about fated mates and Kresley Cole on twitter.
- What is paranormal romance?
- A big overview of PNR
- A thoughtful academic definition
- Superhero movies after 9/11
- Superhero Movies have become an endless attempt to rewrite 9/11 from Vox
- On Superheroes and the Myths of American Power from LitHub
- Monster Mash. And cuter Monster Mash.
- The Immortals after Dark on Audio
- Lots and lots of tweets from us about the audio.
- Robert Petkoff, audiobook narrator of our hearts.
- Kresley Cole’s Pocket Books page
- Moonstruck, 30 years old and still amazing.
- Sarah wrote about the Alpha Male in Romance after the 2016 election.
- What is Urban Fantasy?
- Have we mentioned that we talk about this series a lot on twitter
- A Google folder with PDFs of articles above that still exist online as of 8/2023)
The Rest
- For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2018/10/23/5-a-wolf-without-a-foot-intro
- If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates.
- Beyond your favorite podcast app, you can find us on Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, Tumblr, and probably some other places, too, if you look hard enough.
- If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello Jen. |
| 0:03.4 | Hi Sarah. |
| 0:05.1 | Everybody you're listening to Fated mates. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Sarah McLean. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Jen Reid's romance. |
| 0:13.0 | Is Reid's romance your actual last name? |
| 0:16.0 | Is that your birthday? |
| 0:18.0 | You should have seen the court. |
| 0:20.0 | You should have seen the judge at court today. |
| 0:22.0 | No. No. |
| 0:22.8 | Jennifer Procop. |
| 0:25.8 | I know, it's so, it's weird though, I feel like people know me on Twitter. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Jen Procop. |
| 0:30.9 | But on Twitter you can find me at Jen Reed's romance. |
| 0:34.0 | You should find her on Twitter. |
| 0:35.4 | I found her on Twitter. |
| 0:37.0 | That's how we became friends. |
| 0:39.5 | That's how we, it was faded. |
| 0:41.5 | We are faded mates. I know, but if we are only Australian, maybe that would be better. |
| 0:47.3 | If we have any Australian listeners, I want them to like record themselves saying mates and then just like drop it into a sound cloud file for us. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. Or or faded mates. That works too. Yeah. Right, like we're buddies and it was faded. |
| 1:02.0 | We are and that's how we've... so we found... Right, like we're buddies and it was faded. |
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