{"podcast":{"title":"Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People","slug":"fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367","podcast_index_feed_id":607367,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/fatedmates/","website_url":"https://fatedmates.net","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/bf72ead3-5923-498d-8717-800adee158d0/fm-logo-3000-small-file-size.jpg","author":"Fated Mates","episode_count":419,"summary":"The most listened to romance novel podcast, Fated Mates is co-hosted by bestselling author Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop. Weekly episodes include romance novel read-alongs and lively discussions of the work of the genre, highlighting the romance novel as a powerful tool in fighting the patriarchy…with absolutely no kink shaming. RSSVERIFY","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T12:23:22.788723+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367"},"episode":{"title":"S09.01: Cloud Nine: Romance in the Sky","slug":"s09-01-cloud-nine-romance-in-the-sky","published_at":"2026-09-09T13:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/s09-01-cloud-nine-romance-in-the-sky","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367","url":"https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2026/9/6/s0901-cloud-nine-romance-in-the-sky","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6dd33b85-31f5-4f45-9fed-45fab1c340dc.mp3","summary":"Nine seasons of talking about romance, and no signs of quitting! We’re starting a new season, full of much of our same old nonsense, now with more nonsense, because who needs tropes when you can talk about microtropes! Today, in honor of Season Nine, we’re talking about Cloud Nine — both the WNBA star and the feeling you get when you fall in love. We’ve got a whole lot of books featuring romance in the sky — pilots, astronauts, plane crashes, astronauts and mile-high-clubs…and all of them featuring romance that won’t quit. If you’d like to come over and talk about romances, both in the sky and on land, please join us on the Fated Mates Discord, where you’ll find a few thousand other listeners who love talking about these books we love. You also get one extra episode a month from us! Fated States, our democratic phonebanking initiative begins next week. Learn more and register to phone bank with us at fatedmates.net/fatedstates . Books The Vegas Top Gun Series by Katie Porter On Broken Wings by Chanel Cleeton Wild Card by Elsie Silver Beyond the Limits by Katherine Garbera The Last Man on Earth by Shae Sanders Puck Me Secretly by Odette Stone Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid Pregnant in the Italian's Palazzo Turbulence by Whitney G. The Skyland Series by Kennedy Ryan The Professional by Kresley Cole Notes Fated States is back! We’ll be phonebanking every weekend on Saturdays starting September 19th, but the final weekend before the election, we’ll instead phonebank on Sunday Nov 1 to avoid Halloween. The way to find a book club is to read River Town by Peter Hessler and then go to your nearest local indie bookstore and let the bookclub reveal itself to you. Find out more about The Sunday Letter Project . Pilots have been hot since Top Gun, and not just because of the voll…","meta_description":"Nine seasons of talking about romance, and no signs of quitting! We’re starting a new season, full of much of our same old nonsense, now with more nonsens…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6760,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/episodes/s09-01-cloud-nine-romance-in-the-sky/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fated-mates-romance-books-for-novel-people-607367/s09-01-cloud-nine-romance-in-the-sky.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}