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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

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Photo by Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People on October 14, 2026. May be an image of one or more people, poster, book and text.

Photo by Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People on October 14, 2026. May be an image of book and text.

Photo by Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People on October 14, 2026. May be an image of poster, book and text.

Photo by Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People on October 14, 2026. May be an image of one or more people, poster, book, magazine and text.

Photo by Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People on October 14, 2026. May be an image of poster, book, magazine and text.

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Posted On: October 14th 2026, 03:30 pm

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Fated Mates (the duo) explains Fated Mates (the trope) on Fated Mates (the podcast). How have we never done an episode about this?

Thanks to Avon Books, Attic Wall Books, and Elle Kennedy for sponsoring this week’s episode.

Comments (13)

2 days ago

adriana.anders

“It’s 2010 everybody. Calm down.” —Sarah MacLean

3 days ago

kaylee_mcl

“We aren’t making men suffer enough” - @sarahmaclean. PREACH!!!! (I know there’s been a grovelling episode but I would happily take a part 2 or a men suffering episode 👀)

3 days ago

leoba_mordenvale

Using tropes is one of the many things I think makes AI stories so bad. I agree with Sarah - starting with a trope is a bad way to start a story ... particularly if you're a bot slapping random chunks together with no humanity or even intelligence.