S03.06: We Are Grateful For You - Freewheeling with Sarah & Jen

This is a tough week for everyone, so we did what we could do to make ourselves feel a little bit more ourselves despite existential despair—we recorded a podcast. We’re all over the place (we promise this won’t be a theme for the whole season!), but we recommend a TON of books, which is basically all we can do.

Next week, we’ve got an interstitial for you! And the week after, we’re deep diving on Alisha Rai’s Serving Pleasure, which is a fantastic erotic romance. Find it at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books or Bookshop.org.

Also -- Sarah has a contemporary novella out September 15th! Preorder the Naughty Brits anthology, wherever you get your ebooks: Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Apple, or in print at bookshop.org.

Show Notes

• Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is available wherever books are sold, and you can listen to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. The RBG episode is here.
• You can watch a documentary about RBG, or read the Notorious RBG book, or wear the RBG dissent collar now.
• RBG's "When there are nine," quote is: "When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough {women on the Supreme Court}?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
• Tom Hardy might be James Bond and we're fine with it. Melissa did some great work pairing pictures of Tom Hardy as Sarah MacLean covers. Here's a thread of Henry Cavill as Sarah MacLean covers, too. Let it be known Sarah has the best readers around.
• The Jurgen Klopp thread from comedian Laura Lexx is a thing of great beauty.
• These Fifty Shades movies are terrible but we can't stop watching them and we don't understand it either, you guys.
• Masquerades are great. We talked about how historicals do masquerades more than contemporaries, and we couldn't name any contemporaries with masquerades, but then Sarah immediately picked up the Dark Fairy Tales anthology, which is brand new, 99 cents, and in which all the stories are connected by a masque. You should get it. You deserve nice things.
• Also, the fact that we didn't mention Sweet Ruin is causing Sarah some pretty deep shame.
• You should wear your undies over your garters. Dita Von Teese confirms this. Apparently this is referred to as "The French Way."
• The lining is silver.

Books mentioned in the podcast:

• The Notorious RBG
• The RBG Workout
• Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
• Sweet Ruin, Kresley Cole
• Mine Till Midnight, Lisa Kleypas
• Warrior, Elizabeth Lowell
• The Raven Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt
• Blackout Billionaire series, Naima Simone
• Naughty Brits Anthology
• The Blindfold Club series, specifically Three Little Mistakes, Nikki Sloane
• Run to You, Charlotte Stein
• The Crossfire series, Sylvia Day
• Holt, Theodora Taylor
• The Pleasure Principle, Jane O'Reilly
• Slave to Sensation, Nalini Singh
• Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister
• The Seven Necessary Sins of Women & Girls, Mona Eltahaway

The Rest

• For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2020/9/21/s0306-we-are-grateful-for-you-freewheeling-with-sarah-amp-jen
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• If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.