I can’t stop laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Best Books 2019-2025 — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People The best romances as chosen by Sarah MacLean and Jennifer Prokop.

You can get two great Jess K Hardy books for $0 at Amazon today.

COME AS YOU ARE amzn.to/4ejxiXA
LIPS LIKE SUGAR amzn.to/4u6Pj0f

We've recommended COME AS YOU ARE on multiple episodes, and LIPS LIKE SUGAR was a Best of 2024 pick.

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Technically, an AMA is a different kind of episode. But it's really just an other way to recommend great books.

Thanks to Kay Lynn, MA Wardell, Blue Box Press, and Lumi Gummies for supporting Fated Mates!

More info: fatedmates.net/episodes/202...

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.

Jen & Sarah Romance AMA — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People 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 abo...

When we're together in the same physical space, we answer listener questions!

Book Cover: THE DEVILED EGG MADE ME DO IT

Book cover: MATING WITH MALLOWS

To all who celebrate

Spring 2026 Preview — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, May & June 2026! Whether historical, paranormal, contemporary or Romantasy, we’ve got something for everyone in fifty or so recs...

So many romance books on the way in April, May, and June 2026. Thanks to this @fatedmates.net episode, you may discover a few romances that resonate with you.

fatedmates.net/episodes/202...

📚💕 #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #FatedMates #BookSky

We've recommended Mina's books on the podcast. Carla De Guzman's, too. Don't miss out!

a woman with pink and blue hair is reading a book and drinking from a cup ALT: a woman with pink and blue hair is reading a book and drinking from a cup

I recently joined my library’s e-book service and there are huge waits for a lot of things but they do have a load of Amanda Quick and Julie Garwood romances and I’ve heard about them on the amazing @fatedmates.net podcast, so I’m going to dive in this bank holiday.

We've recommended Mina's books on the podcast. Carla De Guzman's, too. Don't miss out!

08.28: Spring 2026 Preview — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People It’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, Ma...

t’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, May & June 2026!

Thanks to Lavinia K. Darcy, Metaltail Press, and Neyha Liu for sponsoring this week's episode! fatedmates.net/episodes/2026/3/23/spring-2026-preview#SPONSORS

Whether historical, paranormal, contemporary or Romantasy, we’ve got something for everyone in fifty or so recs across every single genre. As a reminder, we haven’t read most of these, but we have big plans!

08.28: Spring 2026 Preview — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People It’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, Ma...

t’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, May & June 2026!

Yes, we're a podcast. But we want to share our recs far and wide. This means you can see every book we've ever recommended by visiting fatedmates.net. While we still have a long way to go, we're adding all of those recs to BookBub, too. We just added our 900th title! Follow us there as we add more.

How I **RACED** to the Fated Mates website to see that cover (but you can see it right here on their post). **HOWEVER** I don' think that's an eyepatch, girlies. Those are sunglasses, right???

So they are. 😢

We recommended this on last week's ballet and opera episode. Don't miss out!

Yes, we're a podcast. But we want to share our recs far and wide. This means you can see every book we've ever recommended by visiting fatedmates.net. While we still have a long way to go, we're adding all of those recs to BookBub, too. We just added our 900th title! Follow us there as we add more.

A couple deals on books from this week's episode.

SINGLE DAD DILEMMA - $2.5
Amz amzn.to/3NPwtLj

PREGNANCY, WRESTING, & DATING - $4
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ABOVE AND BEYOND - $4
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Amz amzn.to/4bLsqaW

A couple deals on books from this week's episode.

SINGLE DAD DILEMMA - $2.5
Amz amzn.to/3NPwtLj

PREGNANCY, WRESTING, & DATING - $4
Amz amzn.to/4bNwLKS

ABOVE AND BEYOND - $4
Bkshp bookshop.org/a/5779/97819...
Amz amzn.to/4bLsqaW

"In Romance Baby, all men are great with kids." 😂😂😂

After Hours on Milagro Street — Angelina M. Lopez A bad-ass Latinx bartender returns home to claim the family bar and finds a head-in-the-clouds but hot professor standing in her way.

I am FINALLY reading (am almost finished w/) @angelinamlo.bsky.social's incredible AFTER HOURS ON MILAGRO STREET. @fatedmates.net has been hyping this book forever and rightly so. I went to her website to find a book link and found out it's part of a series! !! www.angelinamlopez.com/after-hours-...

Thanks to Lucy Score, Neyhha Liu, LJ Andrews, and The Romantasy Letters for sponsoring this week's episode. fatedmates.net/episodes/2026/3/23/0827-romance-baby-not-the-endearment-we-mean-actual-babies#SPONSORS

Romance Baby: Not the Secret Kind — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People It never fails to surprise us when we realize we’ve never talked about a really classic trope even now…eight years in. This week, we’re talking about kids in romance—which we’ve somehow never done bef...

It never fails to surprise us when we realize we’ve never talked about a really classic trope even now…eight years in. This week, we’re talking about kids in romance—which we’ve somehow never done before?!

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Grateful for 404 Media's coverage of this. The consistently do excellent work.

Not us, fortunately. Apparently there really is something called Fae-Ted Mates Bookclub. Still appalling.

We recommended this on last week's ballet and opera episode. Don't miss out!