So it's season three and every February I say oh no no it's going to be fine let's just

plan as usual we're going to do a read-along and every February one week before my book is due, I say, oh shit Jen.

I would like everybody to know that I do try and sound the warning bell all week.

I don't accommodate warning bells well.

I've noticed you just ignore them I'll be like hey you know maybe we should do something else this

week and then well I just I do just ignore that like I just I can't I can't be bothered

with that it's not Saturday morning yet. So welcome to Fated

mates everyone. I'm Sarah McLean I read romance novels and this week I'm writing one. That's it it's just a one-week

process and I am Jennifer Procop and I read romance novels and critique some And we were going to do a read-along of Mary

Baylor as a matter of class and I'm sure some of you have already done the

reading well-done students. Next week. But I have not done the reading and it's probably next week.

Probably.

We'll see.

It will be the next read-along.

Yeah, it will be the next read-along.

It's just a question of when. You know it's it's

2021 you guys and it's just hard out here. Oh my gosh it's so hard., honestly, I can't even blame this on the pandemic.

I'm like this every year.

Those of you who have been listening to us for multiple seasons know that I'm like this every year.

But here we are. welcome to the process. There you go. And it's

interesting because it actually usually gives us it nets us an episode like this

which is like I always think a fun different kind of

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