# S08.37: Road Trips and a Chat With Mary Kay Andrews Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/s08-37-road-trips-and-a-chat-with-mary-kay-andrews Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/s08-37-road-trips-and-a-chat-with-mary-kay-andrews.md Podcast: [Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367) Published: 2026-06-10T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2026/6/9/s0837-road-trips-with-mary-kay-andrews Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f8535596-0123-4aec-8ed4-c095501ba061.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/episodes/s08-37-road-trips-and-a-chat-with-mary-kay-andrews Duration seconds: 4682 ## Resource This week, we’re visiting with Mary Kay Andrews, a longtime writer and certified badass who we adore for her WTAF Wednesdays and her delightful books. We talk about her writing journey, her decision to get publicly, vocally political, and about her new book Road Trip . We had a great time chatting and talking about writing, about research, and about how we should all just take a road trip through Ireland. Of course, we recommend a few books! Find Mary Kay Andrews (and catch WTAF Wednesdays) on Instagram , Threads , or her website . Listen to our earlier romance road trip episode from Season 1 and head over to tell us all about your favorite road trips and find an endless list of road trip recs on the Fated Mates Discord, accessible to our Patreon subscribers. By joining the Patreon, you meet other Fated Mates listeners and get an extra monthly episode from us. Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon . Next week, our read along is Seven Days in June by Tia Williams. Get it at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Kobo , Apple Books , wherever you get your books , or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited . Books Discussed Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews Nevermind the Mistletoe by Louisa Darling The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Odyssey, Emily Wilson's Translation The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett Sponsors Edward Underhill , author of The House of Now & Then, available in print, ebook, audiobook from Amazon , Apple Books , Barnes & Noble , Kobo , or wherever you get your books . Kristina Forrest , author of The Summer Girlfriend, avai… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/episodes/s08-37-road-trips-and-a-chat-with-mary-kay-andrews/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/s08-37-road-trips-and-a-chat-with-mary-kay-andrews.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.