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Chicago. Romance correspondent at Kirkus. Half of @fatedmatespod

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We’re doing it one more time! This one is on a Sunday and we’re calling on behalf of Abdul El-Sayed. Let’s do this!

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BOOK TOUR DETAILS! ✨ I am so excited to be doing a few dates to support the Oct 13 release of The Gilded Rose! So many of my favorite romance people have agreed to join me and I can’t wait to celebrate together. See joannashupe.com/events for links to grab tickets!

These will be a blast and I hope to see so many of you there! 🥀

Oct 13 release day will be in DC with Sophie Jordan and Diana Quincy at @eastcitybookshop

Oct 20 in Boston with Sarah MacLean at @lovestruckbooksandcafe

Oct 21 in Brooklyn with Adriana Herrera at @therippedbodice

Oct 27 in Chicago with Jen Prokop at @thelastchapterbookshop

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Romancelandia Assemble! We’re back and we’ve got six weeks of phonebanks designed to flip the house and senate with @indivisibleteam! This year, we’re calling Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, Montana and Michigan to deliver a blue wave up and down the ticket!

As always, Fated States phonebanks will feature a blazing fast chat room for discussion of romance novels and democracy, giveaways of romance novels and romance swag, special guests from Romancelandia and more—all hosted by the Fated Mates team!

Phone banks run for two hours, beginning at 1pm eastern, 10am pacific. You are welcome to join us for any amount of that time, and training will be provided to anyone who is new to phonebanking.

Register at fatedmates.net/fatedstates! 🔥🆙

AUTHORS — If you have books to donate to our fantastic phonebankers, we so appreciate them! Head over to fatedmates.net/fatedstates to donate! (We love you!) Phonebank Texas for Jon Ossoff
9/19 - more info at fatedmates.net/fatedstates

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Nope, this still hasn’t registered in my brain, and I’m not sure it ever will?! 😭

*The* Sarah MacLean read Favors from a Gentleman and discussed it on @fatedmatespod last week!!! To say I’m honored is an understatement. (And to be likened to Mary Balogh? I won’t be recovering anytime soon.)

Thank you endlessly, Sarah and Jen, for continuing to give your love and support to historical romance! And if you haven’t listened to the episode yet, go do that now. Wonderful titles from @janehadleywrites, @anneknightbooks, @logan.sage.adams, @felicitynivenauthor and more are featured and deserve a place on your bookshelf! 💜

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We’re back with a deep dive on one of our favorite recent romances, Seven Days in June by @tiawilliamswrites! We talk about yearning in contemporaries, about books that have a powerful sense of place, about dual timelines, about secondary characters, about lines that stick with us years later, and about how fated mates works as a trope in a contemporary romance.

Thanks to @fsmith827, @littlebrown, @wbywattpadbook, and @thewitspod for sponsoring this week’s episode.

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Attention Chicago romance readers, especially historical romance lovers! We are very excited to celebrate the release of Sophia Benoit’s THE VERY DEFINITION OF LOVE, a hilariously fun, romping regency romance on Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm! Sophia will be joined in conversation with Jen Prokop, co-host of the Fated Mates podcast. This event is free to attend, but we’d love it if you registered at the link in our bio, just so we can keep an accurate count. We’ll see you then!! ✨🩷💫📖

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June has been busy, which is why we are 10 days in and finally putting up our June events post… Here’s what we have going on for the rest of the month, regarding events! Reproductive politics of abolition, a journey in to queer parenting, meditations on climate justice, a debut about queer yearning and indie musicians, some absolutely banging poetry lineups, a lesbian end-of-the-world love story, a debut from a former WCF bookseller exploring rural identity and forbidden desire and much more! More info found on our website & link in bio, but we hope to see you at one of these events soon!

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We’re going to need the strongest get out the vote push we’ve ever had for democrats this November. State legislatures are up for grabs, and we can win a lot more seats and stem the tide of redistricting this year if people show up to the polls.

How you can help: Fated States is coming back, and we’re looking to do some big GOTV phonebanks in the South. Sign up to receive updates when we’re up and running at fatedmates.net/fatedstates.

Phonebanking is incredibly raucous and fun, it includes special guests, romance novel recommendations, book giveaways and one time, we phonebanked Jon Ossoff’s mom. It’s much easier than you think, and romance readers make everything more fun.

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Folks, is it cringe to care? Also, it really shows you why DREAMING OF YOU is such a meaty book that @jenreadsromance and I had a whole convo about parasocial relationships while chatting about it.
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#lisakleypas #romancebookaddict #historicalromance #heatedrivalry #parasocialrelationships

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If a romance MMC thinks he’s worthy I don’t want him!!!
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#romancebooks #historicalromance #romancehero

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Derek Craven is the elite big city boyfriend!! What are you favorite anti-small town romances?
This discussion and more all part of the DREAMING OF YOU episode with @jenreadsromance
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#smalltownromance #smalltownromancebooks #lisakleypas #historicalromance #hallmarkmovies

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One of the things we love about Derek Craven is that he wants to give Sarah *everything*—so what makes him interesting when a lot of modern heroes doing the same thing are kinda boring? Jen and I talk all about it on this week’s episode on DREAMING OF YOU
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#lisakleypas #historicalromance #bridgerton #romancehero #romancewriter

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