Well, Jen, this morning, I said, Eric, we're recording tonight, or this afternoon or this morning, we're not, whatever time it is, whatever time of day it is that we're recording everyone. And he said, what are recording? And I said, we're doing romance baby. He said, you're going to, you're going to recommend some books today? And I mean, an attack. An absolute attack. Like we don't, I was at a dinner this week and a woman asked me, was very sweet, asking me questions about the podcast. And she was like, and how many books do you recommend like every week? And I said, oh, I don't know, probably on average, like, eight to ten. And then I realized, she was like, oh, I'm going to go listen and I realize like it was

Romance Wardrobe Week. And I was like, oh, you're not, yeah, not this week. There are books

we mentioned. It's fine. I know everybody. Eric just likes to really like take the piss,

as they say. But we are going to recommend books today. So ha. It's going to be great.

And I was thinking, Jen, there's a reason why we're doing it this week. And like I asked for this topic.

And then I couldn't remember the book that made me ask for this topic. So here we are.

A classic faded mates episode coming your way is what we're trying to say,

everyone. We should talk about how that all works. But first of all, welcome to fate of mates,

everyone. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them. And I'm Jennifer Procop,

a romance reader and editor. And here, listen, sometimes I do think, maybe we've talked about this before, but like I do think it's really funny. So basically here's how it works, everyone. We just read all the time and then romance is in our brains. And then one of us will say, we should do. And in this case, Sarah said, we should do single parents. This is a couple weeks ago. Like sometimes we... Yeah, I wanted to do a single parent episode. Yeah. And I was kind of... And I don't remember exactly what happened how... But like, within minutes... Guess what's not sexy. Yeah. The words single parent. Exactly. Well, in fact, then I think I'm going to tell this really funny story before in a minute.

But like basically quickly, I was like, so basically what we're doing is, and Sarah said,

romance, baby. And we, like, basically, like, completely lost our shit.

And we're like, yeah, we should definitely do that.

And so then what happens is we go to our corners and think about our feelings.

And usually for me, that's like a books just bubble up to the surface or I have ideas and I try and like jot them down all in the same place.

Sometimes I don't. You'd think I'd use my phone for that. But what is the joy in that when you could instead have several pieces of paper

all over your house and or workplace with little notes on them? I mean, we're very, I'm glad to know

that you are also sort of disorganized in this way because I don't know how we do this. And then,

you know, here we are, right? But the fun, here's like a really funny story about, like, romance baby.

And I guess I want to say the other thing.

I started going down a deep depressing road about romance baby.

And then I was like, no, romance baby is only for fun topics.

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