S08.06: Gorilla Twins! The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
It's Gorilla Twins Week! We couldn't be happier to be talking about The Earl Takes All, a book we love so much we gave it a nickname that all of Romancelandia uses now. Whether you're reading it for the first time or the fiftieth, we're so happy to have you. We talk about Jane Goodall, Romance Gorillas, Lorraine Heath's brilliant mind, how she's easily a top-five romance novelist and possibly the best of them when it comes to writing conflict, and just how much we love a bonkers historical.
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Notes
- It’s not too late to join the The Fated States Giving Circle, 25 people who give in October will receive a copy of Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters, featuring Sarah's novella about Emma's Miss Bates.
- This is our second Lorraine Heath deep dive episode, because she writes a banger. Listen to our deep dive of Waking Up With the Duke. According to search, we’ve mentioned Gorilla Twins (aka The Earl Takes All) at least 34 times on the podcast. Sorry not sorry.
- The hallmark movie Adventures in Love & Birding is based on Birding with Benefits by Sarah Dubb. Apparently the birding community has some feedback on the bird situation of the movie.
- It’s Romance Bird! It’s Romance dormouse! It’s Romance Pig!
- Rest in Peace Jane Goodall. Famous Last Words is a show where you get to leave your burn book, and Jane Goodall’s was the first episode. Our episodes will be 100 hours each, so plan accordingly.
- The history of influenza. Vaccines work. Go get a flu shot.
- Some more information about mountain gorillas. JK.
- It’s Rune Week!
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The Rest
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- If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates.
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- If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Sarah, and I'm just going to take a quick minute before we start the |
| 0:05.4 | Gorilla Twins episode, which is going to be an absolute delight. To remind everyone that we |
| 0:11.1 | are still raising money just in the last week or two of the election cycle for state legislative |
| 0:16.9 | seats in Virginia, this is the first statewide legislative elections since last year. It is our |
| 0:24.8 | opportunity to send a strong and unwavering message to the world that we will not stand for |
| 0:31.9 | everything that's going on in the United States right now. If you have time and inclination |
| 0:37.1 | to be a part of this, we would love to have |
| 0:39.9 | you. Any amount of money helps build the giving circle. Community is how we do democracy. |
| 0:46.3 | So whatever you can give is welcome. And between now and the end of the month, we are running a |
| 0:52.7 | little bit of a giveaway, a little bit of a |
| 0:55.3 | incentive system. If you would like to give to the giving circle, head to fadedmates.net |
| 1:03.7 | slash giving circle and 25 people who've given over the course of October, even if you've |
| 1:09.1 | already given in October, you'll be entered to win one of 25 copies of Ladies in Waiting, which is the Austin |
| 1:16.9 | anthology that I'm a part of with Diana Quincy and Eloise James and Nikki Payne. |
| 1:21.8 | I will sign that book for you. |
| 1:23.5 | We will mail it out in November. |
| 1:25.8 | If that incentivizes you at all, just click on the chapter |
| 1:29.0 | title. If your podcasting app supports it, that'll take you to faded mates.net slash giving circle. |
| 1:35.0 | If not, you can head on over and give what you can. $5, $10, $25, whatever you can give helps fund |
| 1:43.0 | door knocking, fund phone banking from get out the vote in these last crucial weeks. And all eyes on Virginia. We believe in you, everyone. Thank you so much for being with us for faded mates and for faded states. And on with the show. |
| 2:01.4 | Yay. |
| 2:02.8 | How have we not ever done this before? |
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