RERUN: Trailblazer KJ Charles
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
AH2's Historical Trailblazers Romance Collection is inspired by the Fated Mates Trailblazers series, so we thought it would be good to rerun each featured author's Trailblazer episode. This time we've got KJ Charles, author of The Magpie Lord. If this leaves you hungry for more, you can revisit our Magpie Lord deep dive episode.
The Historical Trailblazers Kickstarter runs until June 2. Don't miss out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Eric. I produced the show. |
| 0:05.0 | This week, like last week, we will be re-releasing one of our Trailblazer episodes from the archives. |
| 0:13.0 | To call attention to the historical Trailblazers Kickstarter that we are working on with Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood |
| 0:24.4 | to bring you really stunning additions of romances by Beverly Jenkins, Jeannie Lynn, |
| 0:33.8 | KJ Charles, Lisa Claypuss, and Loretta Chase. |
| 0:38.5 | The Kickstarter has six days to go. It ends on June 2nd. |
| 0:43.0 | You really ought to take a look over at the Kickstarter page to see the wide range of things that are available here. |
| 0:51.3 | The different books, the audiobook books, which are very impressive. |
| 0:55.7 | Go over, take a look, see if you're interested in buying one of these gorgeous things that |
| 1:01.7 | gives these brilliant books the love and attention they deserve in the year 2026. |
| 1:08.9 | That's it from me. |
| 1:14.3 | Stay tuned for the Trailblazer episode. |
| 1:25.7 | There's historical romance that just have, yeah, only the vaguest relationship to the actual history of Britain. And there's historical romance that gets really |
| 1:28.7 | down and dirty into it and where the author has really delved into it. And although I, you know, |
| 1:33.9 | I prefer the second kind, but I don't think the first kind should be dismissed because it's doing, |
| 1:38.1 | it is doing something else. I don't think every historical romance needs to go, but there was only |
| 1:43.0 | 28 dukes and most of them had syphilis and no teeth and everyone's got lice. I don't want to read books where everyone's got lice. If I want lice, I'll have young children again. I would rather read a book where they just sort of throw their hands up and just going, okay, we're Heyering the hell out of this, you know, Because actually, Georgia Hare, although she did loads of research and everything, when she actually did the bits that are really historically |
| 2:04.4 | rounded, which is to say an infamous army and the other reason, they're awful, they're so |
| 2:08.9 | boring, they're dreadful, nobody reads and nobody wants to read them. The sort of glittery, |
| 2:14.2 | bawly, wonderful, romantic ones, we love them. And it is good that people do that, |
| 2:20.4 | and I think there is space for both. This is actually something I'm struggling with at the moment, |
| 2:24.3 | because like a fool, I've been trying to write a Duke book. I mean, fundamentally my problem |
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