S07:09 Mermaid Romance with Zoraida Córdova/Zoey Castile
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking mermaids with our friend, Zóraida Cordova, an author of many genres who also writes romance under the name Zoey Castile. We talk about the appeal of mermaids, why we're so drawn to them as creatures, their history in mythologies around the globe, and yes, we get into biology, because we give the people what they want.
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The Books
- The Captive Merman’s Promise by Zoey Castile
- Mermaids Never Drown edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker
- Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova
- The Penguin Book of Mermaids
- Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
- Witchful Thinking by Celestine Martin
- The Mermaid’s Knight by Jill Myles
- Soul Song by Marjorie M. Liu
- Tentacles and Triathlons by Ashley Bennett
- One Night Standard by E.F. Dodd
- Siren’s Secret by Debbie Herbert
- Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm
- Wish out of Water by Holley Trent
- Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
- To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
The Notes
- Welcome Zoraida Cordóva, our resident mermaid expert. Well, everyone’s mermaid expert.
- Laura Von Holt is another one of our faves, and she has a mermaid podcast you might want to check out.
- The ocean is so deep, we don’t even know what’s down there!
- Have you ever googled a whale penis?
- Merman christmas ornaments. What a world.
- A huge group of YA books sold all at once: Wake by Amanda Hocking, Fins are Forever by Tera Lynne Childs, Tempest Rising by Tracy Wolff, Of Poseidon by Anna Banks, Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
- Maybe you’ve read a Namor comic, or watched Aquaman with Jason Momoa, or Splash with Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah, or either of the two versions of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
- MerPeople is a Netflix documentary about professional mermaids. The Coral Room was a bar in New York the features professional mermaids, such as Julie Atlas Muz.
The Sponsors
- Avon Books, publishers of Alyssa Cole's How to Find a Princess, available in print, ebook, and audiobook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo & Apple Books, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- Madison Score, author of Happily Never After, available in print or ebook from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
- Alyxandra Harvey, author of The Scandalous Spinster, available in print or ebook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- MJ Etkind, author of Dishwasher Safe, available in print or ebook from Amazon.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do mermaids ever wake up with sore necks? |
| 0:02.3 | That's what I want to know. |
| 0:03.0 | I feel like they're in a constant, they're like floating in. |
| 0:08.4 | Just seems like they would never, that would never happen. |
| 0:11.0 | I do have a question about like the physics of mermaid sex that I used to have questions |
| 0:16.6 | about one version, one like mermaid sex question. |
| 0:20.0 | But now I have like a completely separate mermaid |
| 0:22.2 | sex question that I think comes from just being older and like. |
| 0:25.6 | We brought an expert in everybody. |
| 0:27.7 | We brought in our mermaid expert. |
| 0:29.3 | Everybody, please welcome for the third time, I think. |
| 0:34.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:34.9 | Fourth time. |
| 0:37.1 | Zerida Cordova is with us, who is also Zoe Castile. |
| 0:43.7 | And when we decided we were going to do a mermaid episode, there was only one person who could possibly have been our, I mean, well, Jen, what did you say? You were like, |
| 0:55.2 | mermaids. I don't know what you're about mermaids. We better get right on the phone or the |
| 1:00.0 | shell, whatever it is. Thank you. I saw the, the broadcast of the shell in like a Batman sign. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah. Yeah, there you go. And that's what I knew. And you knew. And you knew. |
| 1:19.3 | But I feel like in romance, there are only, there is only Zerida. |
| 1:25.6 | Like if somebody says like mermaids, like I don't know who other people call, but we call you. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay. |
| 1:30.1 | And I would like to say Laura, Laura von Hold, right? Who has the mermaid podcast? She has the mermaid podcast. Yes. But Laura, interestingly, |
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