S02.12: Lord of Scoundrels: Reel or be Reeled

It may be Thanksgiving week in the US, but that didn’t stop us from recording a monster episode about one of our (and all of Romance’s) favorite books of all time! It’s Lord of Scoundrels week! We’re talking gloves and fans and prologues and why Jessica is one of the best heroines of all time! All that, and Sarah is on a rant about Byron…so don’t miss it!

Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in your favorite podcasting platform — and while you’re there, please leave us a like or a review!

In two weeks, we’re moving across the pond to Beverly Jenkins’s Indigo, with one of Sarah’s favorite heroines ever—Hester Wyatt, Underground Railroad conductor! Read Indigo at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie.

Show Notes

• Lord of Scoundrels has its own wikipedia page, which in case you're curious, is kind of unusual.
• Just look at this gorgeous Lord of Scoundrels embroidery.
• If you haven't listened to our episode on Dreaming of You, what are you waiting for?
• Maybe you want to find out what you first ordered in your Amazon account.
• Jessica Trent is not a Mary Sue.
• Erin from Heaving Bosoms is famous for not liking epilogues, but it's a pretty good reason why. But prologues are fine.
• You've been lawyered is from How I Met Your Mother.
• Sarah wrote the prologue to a new edition of The Transformation of Philip Jettan.
• Maybe watch out when taking DNA tests. Or not.
• Stronzo! And maybe some more if you're interested.
• Love's Sweet Arrow is a romance-only bookstore in the Chicago suburbs. It's awesome.
• Gentle Rogue started too late.
• More about Russian religous icons, but maybe you want to buy some.
• The gloves scene in the Age of Innocence movie. All that repressed longing from Daniel Day Lewis! In the book, it's this chapter where Newland Archer "bent over, unbuttoned her tight brown glove, and kissed her palm as if he had kissed a relic."
• All about Beelzebub.
• If you want to know about demon seals and the Wroth brothers, then listen to season one of Fated Mates.
• What does it even mean to dance a waltz in the Continental style? Probably not this Continental-style.
• The Beverly Jenkins book where the heroine shoots the hero is Tempest.
• Reading the banns and a list of people who were married at Saint George Hanover Square.
• You'll be shocked to know that Jen has some theories about internal vs. external conflict.
• When they're at the wrestling match, Dain says his friend could have "stayed comfortably at home and pumped his wife."
• She Walks in Beauty Like the Night is a glorious poem, but that doesn't make Byron any less of a scumbag. That Ada Lovelace was Byron's daughter is kind of wild, but we're glad she's known for being her own person. Despite Sarah trying to create an authorship question for Byron, that's not really a thing. There's no such person as the Duke of Summerville. Jen just made that up.
• If you're interested in The Romantics, you can find Jen's old college syllabus here. Lots of Wordsworth, but no Bryon, which is just fine. But we still love the way Loretta Chase used Don Juan in the text of Lord of Scoundrels.
• Friend of the pod Adriana Herrera has been reading Lord of Scoundrels for the first time and her tweets about it are honestly the most amazing thing.
• Maybe you want to buy some romancelandia buttons or some of Sarah's t-shirts.
• Coming up next on December 11, 2019, Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

The Rest

• For even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2019/11/25/s0212-lord-of-scoundrels
• 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.