S07.41: Audiobooks with Julia Whelan

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

We're thrilled to have audiobook queen and Voice of the Summer (USA Today), Julia Whelan with us today! Aside from being the voice of Emily Henry, Taylor Jenkins Reid, VE Schwab and Kristen Hannah, she's also an author of her own delicious books and the founder of Audiobrary, an audio book company that pays narrators on a royalty structure. She's here to talk about her journey to writing and to narrating, about the way she thinks about her work, her advocacy, and the world of audiobooks. We are so incredibly thrilled to have her!

Julia is also the narrator for Sarah's book, These Summer Storms, available next week wherever books are sold. The audiobook is perfection, and you can read it on Audible, LibroFM or Apple Music...or wherever you get your audiobooks.

There are still tickets to see Sarah on tour in NYC, Chicago, Winston-Salem, NC, Newport, RI, Cambridge, MA, Decatur, GA, or Franklin, IN. There are a handful of tickets still available for Fated Mates Live in St. Louis, MO on July 8th! Join us!

If you can't make the tour, you can preorder These Summer Storms signed with a special romance dust jacket from The Ripped Bodice.

If you want more Fated Mates in your life, please join our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

Notes

USA Today's voice of the summer

audiobook narrator extraordinaire

Audiobrary

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's July, Sarah.
0:03.0	It's July, Jen.
0:04.3	But this episode we recorded in June.
0:07.2	We did.
0:07.9	In the past.
0:08.7	In the past.
0:09.6	Who knows?
0:10.3	Who knows what it's like out there today?
0:12.2	Let's not talk about it.
0:13.1	We're here for hopeful romance, good things only.
0:18.0	It's six days before my book comes out.
0:21.1	I know.
0:22.3	So I'm vibrating at a fever, bitch.
0:26.0	You know, we recorded this a month in advance, but we do know that that is in fact.
0:29.2	That is true.
0:30.5	There's no question I'm not vibrating.
0:33.6	Unless I might be dead.
0:39.6	I'm Sarah McLean.
0:42.1	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:44.1	Welcome everyone to Fated Mates. And I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader, editor, and audiobook listener, which is important
0:48.8	because this week, oh wait, I just got a book of the month club notification.
0:55.9	So everybody, if you're a book of the month club subscriber, today is your day to order of storms in your box.
	...

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