Press

Each season of Fable Gazers’ podcasts is a deeply researched narrative story produced to the highest quality. We spend years crafting our projects to achieve the maximum amount of interest and engagement. Our goal is to create work that hooks people in and inspires multiple recommendations and listens forever. Yep, our content is built to stand the test of time and be as evergreen as our subject matter.

We aim to create podcasts that are ever green, so there will always be an audience.And we’re planning on taking it up a notch. Season 2, ‘Heyer Today’, features guests like Stephen Fry and best-selling author Joanne Harris. Be a part of our journey, as we continue our adventures!

We’d love to invite reviews of season 1: The Sugar Baby Confessionals. Read more about it here, or binge the whole season here.

According to journalists and BBC broadcasters Bibi Lynch, Alix Fox and Rob Crossan, The Sugar Baby Confessionals is: “beguiling and off-kilter”, “thought-provoking”, “charming, funny and candid”.

General info

Genre – The Sugar Baby Confessionals

We’ve won bronze at the 2019 British Podcast Awards! The podcast is a real-life, serialised narrative story. It’s currently under the ‘sexuality’ category in iTunes, as well as ‘society and culture’.

Where to listen

Links

We’re available here:

Libsyn

As well as all good pod players, including:

iTunes

Spotify

Or just search ‘Fable Gazers’ or ‘The Sugar Baby Confessionals – you’ll find us on Google Podcasts, Radio Public, Stitcher and more.

We also have a teaser trailer for The Sugar Baby Confessionals and for Heyer Today, featuring Stephen Fry, here.

Upload schedule

We do one season of 12-15 episodes per year. Each episode runs between 40 minutes to an hour. Season 2 is due out in 2019. Season 1 is available to binge in its entirety.

PRESS AND REVIEWS

Awards

Bronze award winner in the ‘Sex & Relationships’ category in the 2019 British Podcast Awards!
‘Finger in the Pie’, first published as a short story in The Norwegian American, won through to the Leipziger Hörspielsommer audio drama fest in July 2019
East Cast Away: Audio Open Mic – ‘A Blind Bit of Difference’ short audio piece played live at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden

Press

I am highly addicted to this show right now… I just love it.” – Sara DaSilva, Audible Feast

We’ve been featured guests on the following podcasts and radio shows:

From The Lighthouse: Episode 91 Sara-Mae and Heyer Today
Bibi Does Soho – Soho Radio
Good Sex, Bad Sex with Bibi Lynch and Miranda Kane – Being a Sugar Baby
Flixwatcher: Episode#066 Love & Friendship
Flixwatcher: Episode #056 Their Finest

Podcast review blogs and magazines

The Times Magazine “Top 10 Confessional Podcasts”
Sara DaSilva of Audible Feast: Best podcast series of 2018: Entertainment category
Rivkah Brown recently interviewed Ruby about forthcoming movie, The New Romantic, for Dazed and Confused magazine.
Featured in the 7 December Podnews newsletter
The South African – Two antipodean women turn to podcasting to tell stories
InkTears – Sugar Babies & Writers: an interview with Sara-Mae Tuson
Jane Austen Society – Two Austen fans podcasting to tell the story of Georgette Heyer today

Public reviews:

Antonia Reed, writer

Blog post: Tough Love and Cake Puns: the Not-So Sweet Story of a Sugar Baby

Don’t…be fooled into thinking this is a shallow kiss-and-tell story. Guided by Sara’s thoughtful and considerate moderation, Ruby and sugar baby friend Madeleine’s stories unfold through conversations with the host, accompanied in later episodes by guest experts and other podcasters. Themes include sex work and politics, women’s rights and the law. Refreshingly, the commentators include women who have actually been sex workers.

The Confessionals quickly becomes a deep exploration of sexuality, psychology, romance and loyalty, and of the many things that complicate these aspects of life…Absolutely vital listening.”

Anonymous sugar baby, via email:

[Your podcast] is such a fun listen. I’ve really enjoyed hearing other women who are so articulate about what they feel regarding the sugaring lifestyle. At times I identify with you, and sometimes with Ruby, and occasionally with Madeline too.”

Poet and fashion maven Bette O’Callaghan (rather delightfully) wrote a review in the form of a poem:

Delusions of grandeur

are inherent in youth

it’s the nightmare

of the tangled bed sheets

the result of reckless actions

that haunts one in old age.

Miss_Troubled says:

5* – This podcast has intimate details and will satisfy your (voyeuristic) sweet tooth but it’s also a thoughtful look at monogamy, feminism, sexuality, and womanhood. Host Sara-Mae asks all the right questions and does a bit of soul-searching, too. Recommended!”

FOReilly says:

5* – I learned loads and was enthralled with the journey and especially Ruby’s story. Really well produced, love this series!

michpsk says:

5* – Wow this was totally brilliant. I loved the subject and Ruby was refreshingly honest and open about one of our society’s biggest taboos.”

Transcripts

We’re currently working on our transcripts. We want them to be mini-novellas, packed with extras so that the on-page experience is as good as the audio side. Watch this space to hear more.