S07.24: He's *NOT* a Billionaire
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
It's been the longest month of our lives and as self-care, we're not thinking about billionaires this week (or at least for the duration of this episode). Instead, we're talking about those men who are rich in other ways, in throwing a punch, chasing a tornado, camping, playing an instrument, you get it. We've got a bunch of books we love and not a ten-figure bank account to be seen!
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Our next read along is Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, available in print, ebook, and audio at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
The Books
- Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins
- Thirsty by Mia Hopkins
- Stealing the Rogue’s Heart by Erica Monroe
- A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath
- In the Morning Sun by Lena Hart
- An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles
- Whirlwind by Kayla Gross
- Gone Too Deep by Katie Ruggle
- Take Me Home Tonight by Erika Kelly
- Into the Woods by Jenny Holiday
- Drilled by Brill Harper
- Sinner (was Sinful Temptation) by London Hale
- Pardon my Frenchie by Farrah Rochon
- Sleeping With the Frenemy by Natalie Caña
- Common Ground by Melanie Greene
- Demon from the Dark by Kresley Cole
- Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta
- Rock and Soul by Lauren Sattersby
- Losing Sight by Tati Richardson
- Unloved by Payton Corinne
The Notes
- There have always been rich people in romance, but we think it could be argued that Christian Grey and 50 Shades invented the billionaire romance genre.
- Jen started writing a newsletter, leaning back into the romance reader “and critic” part of the job. You can check it out here. It’s free and who knows how long it will last.
- Bobby Tom is the hero of Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
- If Jen refers to something being “a basic” please know she is referring to a line from Strictly Ballroom.
- Maybe you want to learn about a rookery.
- Anti-miscegnation laws in the United States prevented people from marrying someone of a different race.
- Storm chasing seems honestly like a very dangerous activity. There is no evidence that I could find that a tornado can rip your clothes right off your body, but Kayla Grosse probably read this webpage for research. (lol)
- Dyscalculia is a learning disability rooted in math and number.
The Sponsors
- Piper Rayne, authors of Mr. Heartbreaker, available in print, ebook, audio, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
- Megan Frampton, author of The Devil's Charm, available in print, ebook, audio, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
- 1001 Dark Nights, publishers of Riches and Romance: A Billionaire Romance Anthology from Dylan Allen, Kendall Ryan, Lexi Blake and Melissa Foster, available with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
- Charlotte Stein, author of My Big Fat Fake Marriage, read by Imogen Wilde, available from Audible, Kobo, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Libro.fm, or wherever you get your audiobooks. Enter the Macmillan Audio sweepstakes to win one of five free copies of the audiobook.
- Lucy Score, author of Story of My Life, available in print, ebook, audio, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
The Rest
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| 0:00.0 | I'm feeling like we're being very professional. |
| 0:03.0 | So profes. |
| 0:04.0 | You know, I feel like people who listen to this episode, this podcast regularly are like, oh, they're in that part of the year. |
| 0:13.7 | Well, where they are probably procrastin. |
| 0:17.6 | Well, Sarah at least is procrastinating. |
| 0:19.4 | And so she's like, let's get organized. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm here are 10 episode topics. You know, I'm always like, are we going to run out of topics? |
| 0:30.4 | But I think the answer is no. No. Yesterday I texted you a topic and you're like, perfect. I love it. |
| 0:36.1 | Listen, are they getting more absurd? Absolutely. So is the world. It's fine. |
| 0:43.3 | We're moving a pace, everybody. We still have the capacity to talk about romance for at least one hour. In fact, it's starting to feel like we have the capacity to talk about romance for longer every week. Okay, I don't want to invoke the name of like these like in-cell podcasts that, but apparently Joe Rogan is on for four of five hours a day. And I was like, can you imagine? Honestly, yes, Sarah. I mean, I didn't. But like, let me just imagine listening |
| 1:12.7 | that Blowhard for four hours a day. Well, obviously. But I mean, I didn't think to myself, |
| 1:18.3 | you know what, if we all lose our jobs, but I'm still able, free radio style to talk into the |
| 1:25.3 | universe, maybe this summer we're just going to get on for five |
| 1:27.8 | hours a day. Maybe. We're going to need some more ads. Oh my goodness. By the way, because Eric and I |
| 1:38.4 | were talking about this last night, you know, in our ordinary Saturday evening conversation, |
| 1:43.8 | if you are an author and you are |
| 1:46.2 | out there, there are like, there are like, I think two ads available in March and April. So yeah, |
| 1:52.2 | like hit us up. Send an email to advertise at faded mates.net or ads at fadedmates.net. I'm sort of famous for creating |
| 2:04.4 | email addresses on the fly, everyone. I posted it. And then Eric just is like, well, I got to make |
| 2:08.7 | this one now. I got to make this email. He's like, couldn't you look at the website? Like the |
| 2:15.2 | address is right there. I could. I could. |
| 2:17.6 | That's just not really our practice. |
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