S08.34: Historical Romance with Ali Hazelwood and Adriana Herrera

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Fated Mates

Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.9 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

We are thrilled to have two of our favorite people with us today to discuss one of our favorite genres! Ali Hazelwood and Adriana Herrera, the masterminds behind the AH2 Kickstarter of Historical Trailblazers are here to talk about all the ways historical romance is unmatched! We talk about the new Historical Trailblazer special edition box set that AH2 launched this week, about the power of historicals, and about some of our favorite historical romances, past and present.

The Historical Trailblazer Box Set of books, including Indigo by Beverly Jenkins, Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin, The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, and (of course) Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. The box set includes stunning hardcover editions, gold foil, sprayed edges, original artwork and letters from the authors. Learn more at the AH2 Kickstarter page.

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Our next read along is Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, wherever you get your books, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, it's Sarah, and I just wanted to take a quick minute before we start the episode with Adriana and Allie today to tell you that as of right now, the paperback version of these summer storms is on shelves.
0:16.7	Wherever you get your books, you can get this wonderfully floppy. If you listen to the podcast,
0:22.4	you know, I love a floppy paperback. It's floppy and perfect and exactly what you want to
0:30.1	throw into your beach bag for a summer read. It also, the first printing of this special paperback
0:37.3	comes with sprayed edges in this gorgeous
0:41.0	blue with a wave motif. And the book also comes with a book club discussion guide. So if you've
0:48.3	been waiting to read storms because you wanted it in paperback, or if you have been talking to your friends about doing
0:55.9	a book club about storms, now's the time to do it. I wrote the questions myself, so I'm really
1:02.0	excited to hear the discussions that come from them. And I am so grateful, as always, for all of you
1:10.2	for supporting the podcast and supporting my writing.
1:14.7	Now, on with the show.
1:18.8	I'm so excited for this.
1:21.0	I'm so excited for all the things that we have to get through today.
1:23.7	Because we have, like, a lot of stuff.
1:26.0	There's a lot of content to cover.
1:27.6	There's some big ground to cover.
1:28.6	I'm going to let Sarah like be the classroom teacher on this one, but just know already I am like, oh boy.
1:34.7	I'm ready.
1:36.2	Oh boy.
1:36.6	We already have said save it for the pod like six times and we haven't even started recording.
1:43.3	But I'm very excited because it's Omegaversity Redux, except it's really not.
1:49.2	But we have Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood with us again to talk about historical romance,
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