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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S03.13: Fated States Author Recommendations

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The last six weeks have been rough, but Fated Mates listeners and a wild number of Romance Authors made them easier by being a part of Fated States, our weekly phonebanking initiative with Indivisible Action. We don’t know how yesterday went, but we know we are so incredibly proud to have worked alongside so many listeners who volunteered their time to phonebank, and so many amazing authors who donated books to phone bankers! On this episode, we rec books by every author who donated free books to Fated States — all 49 of them! Your TBR is going to be full for years after this one! We promise! Special shout out to Julia Quinn, Suzanne Brockmann, AJ Cousins, Carrie Ann Ryan & Cassandra Carr, who each donated books to EVERY phonebanker, once a week for five weeks.

Transcript

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So you want to hear something interesting?

0:01.8

Yes.

0:02.5

I am taking this class that Nisha Sharma told me

0:06.4

that I had to take, it's called Strengths for Writers,

0:10.7

and it's hosted by, it's sort of run by a person named Becca Sime who's like a life

0:16.3

coach as far as I can tell and a writing coach and it's one of these things that like

0:20.6

every once in a while on Twitter you'll see somebody just

0:23.2

singing the praises of Becca and this class like Katie Robert and I saw Jess

0:28.9

Michael's the other day talking about it And she has this academy called Write Better Faster and

0:36.4

frankly who doesn't want to write Better and faster? And so I was like I will

0:40.9

drop several hundred dollars on this sort of empty promise that

0:44.8

someday I will be able to not procrastinate and write faster and maybe I will

0:50.1

maybe it is not an empty promise I have not Becca yet. I'm getting ready for it.

0:55.0

But as part of it, you take this test called the Gallup, it's like run by Gallup, and it's called the Clifton Strengths test. Okay for writers or just for no

1:07.6

It's like for anybody can take this test as far as I can tell because it's run by Gallup, it's really more for like big corporations and like

1:17.8

HR companies like when they make you have mandatory like team training make you all take this test and then you all sit around a circle

1:24.8

and have to like discuss each other's strengths to be able to appreciate each other

1:28.7

better. So anyway it gives you a list of 34 things that are you know ways that people work and it

1:35.7

ranks them from one to 34 and it basically delivers you a personality test like the

1:41.0

Myers-Bregs or you know the Horoscope. So but they focus on the

1:47.6

top ten and so my top ten are all unsurprising if I read them to you would be like I could have you I could have saved you

1:56.1

$50 and given you this test by yourself. So anyway but I am numbers so it and the strengths are like, you know, relator or focus or communication or strategic and they all have these like you know very like you feel like you're going to

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