April 17, 2019
Periods, Pizza, and Point of View: Another AMA with Jen & Sarah
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Jen and Sarah were together in the same city in the same room and just couldn’t pass up the chance to do a real-deal AMA while looking at each other’s faces! You asked, we answered…but get ready. There are some weird things in here (mainly said by Jen). Next week, it’s MacRieve week with Sierra Simone! If you think things got weird this week, just you wait! Get MacRieve at Amazon , B&N , Apple Books , Kobo , or from your local Indie . Show Notes At KissCon, Sarah and Sophie Jordan hosted a session called "Bananas Books" and friend of the pod Beth took notes and listed all the titles . Jen's Best Friend Kelly runs The Resistance Button Club , makes avatar buttons , and also designs stickers and swag for Romancelandia. You can see the signed copy of Wicked Abyss on our insta . Jen wrote about making new TBR collections for her Kindle on Twitter. Soren is one of the characters in Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners series . Check out the IAD fan Facebook group . Check below in the photo array for the Kleypas books with talismans . Fridging is a comics term, and this explainer uses Deadpool 2 to explain the history of this problematic trope. Close 3rd person point of view is very common in romance. Unreliable narrators are very uncommon in romance. Here's how to make a Chicago-style hot dog . A quick primer on archetypes . Next week, we're talking about MacRieve with the magnificent Sierra Simone . Sarah's newest book, Brazen and the Beast , comes out in July and you should pre-order it now! The Rest For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2019/4/15/115-ama-with-jen-amp-sarah If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates . Beyond your favorite podcast app , you can find us on Instagram , Threads , Blue Sky , Tumblr , and probably some other places, too, if you look hard enough. If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode , there's no better time than now.