Next week, we’re tackling the Dacians in two weeks with a two-for-one episode featuring both of these Lothaire spinoff stories, Shadow's Claim (featuring demon-sorceress Bettina and Dacian assassin Trehan) & Shadow's Seduction (featuring Caspion the demon and Mirceo the vampire prince)!

Show Notes

• Jen loves hype video, and there are some for the USWNT are amazing.
• All about advanced reading copies (ARCs) and what it looks like when you get typeset pages.
• Jen has a new title at Kirkus: romance correspondent. She's been interviewing a lot of authors.
• Kate Clayborn perfectly described why we love a grunting hero.
• Only 33 Fortune 500 CEOs are women, which is nonsense.
• Listen to our Curvy Heroines interstitial.
• Covent Garden and the rookeries.
• What's a life peerage?
• Derek Craven forever.
• What it means to be "on the shelf."
• Audiobook narrator Justine Eyre is the narrator for Sarah's books. Can you even imagine what would happen if she and Petkoff ever got together and narrated a romance?
• Preorder Brazen & the Beast at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, or Indiebound -- or from Sarah's local indie, WORD, and get it signed and with fun goodies!

The Rest

• For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2019/7/20/175-this-isnt-a-podcast-this-is-a-brazen-and-the-beast-hype-episode
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• If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.