S08.29: Jen & Sarah Answer Your Burning Questions
Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People
Fated Mates
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
As always when we’re together, today we’re answering listener questions! In here, we’re recommending sex lessons books, motorcycle romance, books set in Toronto, Ohio and more — we’re also talking about the evolution of the trade paperback, how Jen edits, when Duchess is coming, and if we have favorite dinosaurs. It’s a full service episode for you, our faves.
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Our next read along is The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
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| 0:00.0 | We don't even have to count, Sarah. |
| 0:01.2 | We don't because we are together at last. Yes. Once again, reporting in from Sarah's couch in Brooklyn, which is where we do most of our Ask Me Anything. Yeah, right, because we're together for whatever reason. Now, the reason we're together today, this is many weeks ago that we are recording, but I was traveling and then Sarah was traveling. Then there was a snowstorm. There was a snowstorm. supposed to be together. |
| 0:24.0 | Then it was a snowstorm. |
| 0:21.6 | There was a snowstorm. |
| 0:22.7 | Supposed to be together. |
| 0:24.0 | Then it was Easter or it's going to be Easter. |
| 0:26.1 | And so we're recording this episode on, I think it's airing April 8th, many, you know, in the past because otherwise we're going to get that. |
| 0:34.9 | We're very busy and important. |
| 0:36.7 | Yes. |
| 0:37.4 | We're not really. I just am headed to England to see my aunt. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, that's nice. I know. Well, I haven't seen her since before the pandemic. I haven't actually been to England since before the pandemic. So that's right. You were supposed to go. Actually, this is a, you're going to be like, of course, this is a very Sarah story. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah. Kate Claiborne is actually going to be like, of course, this is a very Sarah story. So I was |
| 1:01.5 | supposed to go to England in April of 2020. Yeah, it would have been 2020. And I made plans with |
| 1:09.8 | Louisa Darling. And we were going to go together. |
| 1:13.6 | And because we were both turning 40 and we were like, all right, we're going to do this thing. |
| 1:18.6 | And we made this big plan. |
| 1:21.4 | And then in March of 2020, everything just collapsed around us. |
| 1:27.0 | And so we said, okay, no problem. |
| 1:29.0 | We're going to, we're going to cancel our trip. |
| 1:32.1 | We'll go in May. |
| 1:33.2 | We'll go in June. |
| 1:34.8 | And I went for some reason to look for my passport for some reason. |
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