S07.30: Getting Things Done (to them): Romance with Lists
Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast
Fated Mates
4.9 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
We're crossing off a classic romance novel structure this week -- the list! Whether life changing to-do lists, bucket lists, or lists for kinky exploration, these romances take characters and readers on remarkable rides, reminding us all that sometimes it really does pay to be organized.
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Our next read along is Rachel Reid's Heated Rivalry, which you can get in print, ebook, audiobook or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited. Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
The Books
- Nine Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
- Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
- The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott
- Wicked Nights with a Lover by Sophie Jordan
- What Heals Us by Maggie Gates
- The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle
- Camera Chemistry by Chelsea Curto
- 30 Days and 30 Nights by Christine d’Abo
- The Seal’s Rebel Librarian by Anne Calhoun
- How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams
- Rockaway Bride by Pippa Grant
- Mr. Swoony by Piper Rayne
- Three Little Mistakes by Nikki Sloan
- All Played Out by Cora Carmack
Show Notes
- We’re excited about these author and listener created lists at the Fated Mates Collections Department. And in case you want to see the one from Competitive Yam about Skinny dipping, here it is.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I said to Eric yesterday I had this like kind of like existential crisis. |
| 0:04.0 | I don't know if everybody out there is also having existential crises. |
| 0:07.9 | But I had this moment where I was like, I think I just have to quit everything. |
| 0:11.9 | I think I have to quit writing. |
| 0:13.2 | I think we should end the podcast. |
| 0:14.9 | I think, you know, we should move out of this house. |
| 0:17.8 | I think we should just, you know, I don't know. |
| 0:20.6 | Live on the land. I don't know. Live on the land. |
| 0:21.3 | I don't know what I wanted. Become just people, vibing. And he was like, okay. Well, I sense you're going through something. |
| 0:36.7 | And then he was like, let me remind you that you really like talking to Jen about romance novels. |
| 0:42.1 | And I was like, I do. |
| 0:44.1 | I do. |
| 0:45.0 | So I apologize to everybody if I just gave you a heart attack about like, let's end the podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | But I, it's hard. |
| 0:52.9 | Everything is really hard right now. And then he literally just like turned me around like he was the Grinch and I was Cindy Lou Who and he like patted me on the head and like push me in to my office. |
| 1:07.1 | Welcome everyone to Fate of Mates. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them and I really do love talking about romance novels. |
| 1:15.1 | So I'm probably not going to end this podcast. |
| 1:17.5 | Unless I do get rid of everything else and then I don't have a microphone and what will I do? |
| 1:22.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:23.6 | If I throw my laptop into the sea, we're all fucked. |
| 1:26.8 | Well, I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor. |
| 1:29.8 | And I have no plans to probably or even potentially on the podcast. |
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