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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

RERUN: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

S07.33, originally released on April 29, 2025.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Right before I walked into my office, Jen, Eric said to me, don't forget to talk about the collections.

0:06.4

Bring up Virgin Heroes. That'll set Jen off.

0:09.1

Oh, my God.

0:11.6

Okay, so first of all, I am obsessed with collections.

0:16.0

Okay, tell everybody what they've won with collections.

0:18.7

So Eric had this great idea, which is that we should

0:22.7

essential, like, you know, like our, we have pages that are like, okay, it's enemies to lovers. You can

0:27.2

look at these books. But we really, there's so many people who have great ideas about like

0:32.0

microtropes, right? Like smaller, like, right, a smaller way to organize or collect a series of books.

0:37.4

And one of the reasons that

0:38.9

this becomes, I think, especially important now. And this was, I think, Eric's idea, too, is that it is

0:43.9

harder and harder to find good lists of romances on the internet. Right. When you and I started,

0:49.4

you could easily be like, all right, give me, you know, blah, blah, blah romance. And you could

0:53.7

easily find people's lists. But now, oh, blah, blah, romance, and you could easily find

0:54.4

people's list.

0:55.2

But now, oh, the internet is just slop.

0:57.9

It's so hard.

0:58.6

It's too big.

0:59.5

There's impossible to discover things.

1:01.1

Right.

1:01.4

It's, right.

1:02.3

And so he was like, let's get, you know, people essentially like, our listeners, authors,

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