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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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It's that time of year, when we highlight some of our favorite new voices in romance! This week, we're talking about eight new writers who are making us excited about what's to come in historical, contemporary, cozy fantasy and more. Here's to reading them all for years to come!
From horse girls to divorcees, hair stylists to magical tea shop owners, basketball coaches to jewel thieves, there's something in here for everyone. It's going to be great for you!
Don't forget--you can buy the Fated Mates Best of 2025 Book Pack from our friends at Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, PA, and get eight of the books on the list! Scoundrel Take Me Away and Lazarus, Home from War (independently published) are not in the box. As always, you can add additional romances, or one of Sarah's books to your box.
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Our next read along will be Ruby Dixon's Ice Planet Barbarians (you’re welcome). Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, from your local indie, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jen, a weird thing happened to me today. |
| 0:02.9 | Oh, yeah. Tell me about it, Sarah. |
| 0:04.3 | So, everybody, my actual name is Sarah, but I write under a pen name because everybody writes under pen names for reasons. |
| 0:11.4 | So anyway, I write under a pen name for a reason. |
| 0:14.2 | And it's a complicated reality here in this house because I also did not take my husband's name when we were married. |
| 0:22.3 | So we have like three to seven surnames. |
| 0:27.4 | Sure. |
| 0:28.3 | They like wander through this house now and then. |
| 0:32.0 | But generally, I expect that the people in my life who like are, you know, nice enough to send me gifts, for example, know my name. |
| 0:42.3 | Sure. |
| 0:42.9 | And I would especially expect that of my actual human mother. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay. |
| 0:50.5 | Who does not listen to the podcast or whatever? |
| 0:52.4 | Sure, you can say this, right. |
| 0:53.7 | But today, so it is also my birthday this week. Actually, it's my birthday today. Wednesday, if you are listening to Wednesday. I was literally like, oh, I am a bad friend. It's not, it's not my birthday today in our life, Jen. Sure. It is my birthday today. Did you see me completely, like, lose my mind? Like, glitch. It's fine. You know what, though? You're a present. You sent me a great gift. I sent you another great gift in it arrived yesterday. I didn't open it, though. Sure, because I'm not going to tell you. From Jennifer... From Jennifer Procop. And I was like, how many, speaking of full names, |
| 1:30.0 | they just fucking fill that in on Amazon. I don't know your legal name. I know who you are. They fill that in on Amazon. You're like, it's a gift. And then if you don't stop and, like, stop them, they're telling everybody your business. God forbid, you should take the two seconds to just write Love Jen. That's okay. |
| 1:44.8 | It's from Jennifer ProCop. |
| 1:46.3 | So anyway. |
| 1:47.4 | You know what? |
| 1:48.0 | This podcast is over. |
| 1:49.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:50.3 | There is no, to be fair, everybody, I should say there is no present under Jennifer's |
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