Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

S04.48: J. R. Ward: Trailblazer


Listen Later

The final Trailblazer of Season 4 is a very excellent one—we’re welcoming JR Ward to Fated Mates! Best known as the author of The Black Dagger Brotherhood (a series that blooded Jen), JR began her career writing contemporary romances under the name Jessica Bird before turning to the vampires the romance world adores. In this episode, we talk about the twists and turns of her early career, about the influence of her mother and other powerful women in her life, about the business of being JR Ward, about her process of writing the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and about her relationship to her characters.

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did, and we are so grateful to JR Ward for spending some time with us.

Thanks to Avon Books, publishers of Beverly Jenkins’s To Catch a Raven, Blackstone Publishing, publishers of Nora Zelevansky’s Competitive Grieving, and Alyxandra Harvey, author of How to Marry a Duke, for sponsoring the episode. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for an audio excerpt of Competitive Grieving.

Next week, we finish out Season 4 as is traditional — with a deep dive episode on Sarah’s summer release, Heartbreaker! Get it at Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, at your local indie, or signed and with special swag (and a Fated Mates sticker!) from her local indie, WORD in Brooklyn!

Show Notes

Welcome J.R. Ward, author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a series of paranormal romances. She also wrote category romance under the name Jessica Bird.

We did a deep dive of JR Ward's Dark Lover in Season Two. Listen here.

People Mentioned: editor Hannah Braaten, publisher Jennifer Bergstrom, publicist Andrew Nguyen, editor and publisher Kara Cesare.

Authors Mentioned: Sherilyn Kenyon, Laurel K. Hamilton, Christine Feehan, Kresley Cole, Nora Roberts, Kristen Ashley, Christopher Rice, and Gena Showalter.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel PeopleBy Fated Mates

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

851 ratings


More shows like Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

View all
The Worst Bestsellers by Worst Bestsellers

The Worst Bestsellers

558 Listeners

All the Books! by Book Riot

All the Books!

1,220 Listeners

Well-Read by Ann Cox and Halle Eisenman

Well-Read

205 Listeners

Reading Glasses by Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

Reading Glasses

1,727 Listeners

Heaving Bosoms by Heaving Bosoms Productions, Bleav

Heaving Bosoms

1,194 Listeners

Hot and Bothered by Not Sorry Productions

Hot and Bothered

1,040 Listeners

The Stacks by Traci Thomas

The Stacks

1,753 Listeners

Bad On Paper by Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter

Bad On Paper

4,064 Listeners

Currently Reading by Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

Currently Reading

1,680 Listeners

Read Me Romance by Read Me Romance

Read Me Romance

1,762 Listeners

Learning The Tropes: A Romance Novel Podcast by Erin Leafe and Clayton Gumbert

Learning The Tropes: A Romance Novel Podcast

402 Listeners

Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

16,186 Listeners

Book Talk, etc. by Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks

Book Talk, etc.

593 Listeners

Culture Study Podcast by Anne Helen Petersen

Culture Study Podcast

616 Listeners

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab by V. E. Schwab (Author)

No Write Way with V. E. Schwab

59 Listeners