Today marks the second year Smart Bitches has been in operation. Crazy, but also crazy delicious!
In honor of this occasion, I’d like to invite you, the Bitchery, to reminisce on Awesome Bitchfights Past. They don’t have to have taken place on this blog; in fact, most of my favorites of the past several years took place on AAR. Like this kerfuffle about sex scenes (man, back then, I was excruciatingly polite to so many people I just wanted to rip into—but then I didn’t want to be banned from the boards). And then there was the Robin Lee Hatcher interview that became this Huge Thing about religion and ROMANCE = OMGCRACK. And then there was the RWA cover and website standards thing. And the defining romance dust-up, with attendant flapping and fussing about OH NOES WHERE ARE OUR STANDARDS? And the 2005 RWA Rita awards trainwreck. And then Jan Butler. Oh lordy, the Jan Butler.
A big round of squishy hugs to you, my lovelies. We couldn’t have snipped and sniped without you. And special props to Sarah, the Smartest Bitch, who is Made of Awesome, and the best writing/blogging partner a girl could wish for. We made it for the second year, baby. Woo!
Awww, happy birthday, bitches! Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I’d forgotten some of those Momentous Moments in Romance History. Good times, good times.
Dude, where’s the party hats for the lurvely bitches up top??? And tooty horns!
Congratulations, Sarah and Candy!
***cue Bob Hope***
“Thaaaanks…for the memories….”
Congratulations!!!!
You guys are so great I had to give you up for a few months. When you’ve clicked “Refresh” more than twenty times in any given hour, you know it’s time to ask for help.
And the RWA awards kerfuffle? Wasn’t nearly interesting enough in person. Painful, but not interesting.
Happy 2nd, Bitches!
Congratulations and many, many returns!!
Happy Anniversary!
Hey, don’t forget your hilarious interview with Writer Unboxed. 🙂
Two years! Hard to believe, and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
Favorite slapfests? For me it’s a toss-up between Jan Butler and the 2005 RWA Rita Awards train wreck. You can’t make up stuff like that.
Congratulations, ladies on a fantastic job shining the bright light of bitchery on romance.
Congrats! You have done so well with the site, I am really proud of y’all. Revamping the romance industry with a bit of snark and sass since 2005! Bitch on!
Congrats on two years of Bitchery! So glad to make SBTB one of my daily blog-stops.
Keep it up, Bitches!
Congrats Sarah and Candy, and to all the bitchery!! This would be a lovely time for those going straight to hell t-shirts, and party hats… I’m gonna have to say that the Jan Butler kerfuffle was the one that raised my blood pressure the highest. Nothing beats a good bitchfight, sigh.
I’m new to the bitchery here, but I’m with Victoria who hits refresh too many times a day….
My favorite bitchfests…I love it when Dear Author tries to stick it to publishers for publishing romances without happy endings. That cracks me up. Sometimes Nora Roberts even weighs in. Only funnier. I shouldn’t be so amused since I wrote with the publisher the Janes love to hate, but its funny anyway. Besides I write HEAs.
Another favorite? Okay, this is so trite, but too funny for words: Trump vs. O’ Donnel. That IS funny.
SWAK,
Lucinda
HBDTY, SBTB!
Happy Anniversary and Congrats! I remember all the controversies you mentioned, and I look forward to the snarky fun to come. :-0
Whoo! Two years! Part of me says “Only two years?” and part of me says, “Holy crap, I started reading SBTB HOW long ago?”
Time is weird on the internet.
My favorite kerfluffle is the Jan Butler thing. Never did I see the words “fuckwittery” and “asstard” repeated in more blogs for the same reason. And Candy’s response to JB’s “Don’t censor meeeeeee!” idiocy was one of the best elucidations of “You’re not just a bigot, you’re also stupid” I’ve ever read.
My favorite was the Indida / MJD thing. Happy anniversary!
Happy happy to both of you! You rock my world! 😉
Mazel tov, dear Smart Bitches! I know that my life has been impossibly enriched by you and your hot pink forum of Luuuurve (TM).
I always enjoy reading about the latest scandale here, particularly because they don’t involve me.
Man-titty happy returns to you both, and thank you for the joy and wonder that only truly spectacular pectoral muscles and a good argument can bring.
As an aside, after some skimming of the earlier linkage, I must ask – now that you are older and wiser, have you come to regret the way you sullied your impressionable minds with the trashiest of genres? Do you regret your lost innocence? The all-night reading binges? The bleary-eyed mornings after? The sliding down the slippery slopes of the Duke deSlutte and the Brooding Vampire Brotherhood to the inevitable frantic scouring of used book stores to snort up just one more virgin widow?
Congrats to Da Bitches!
I personally like what I get OUT of the kerfluffles: Food for thought, and often a new perspective on the romance business in general, and my business in particular. I make notes on some of the points made, and consider them when I’m doing things like, oh, commissioning cover art.
I consider this site not only great bitchery and a good place to express your views, but a writing/publishing resource.
You guys rock!
Oof. I left to go on vacation in the middle of the second round of the Jan Butler Experience came down, so I had forgotten about it completely..
I’m now caught up and about 6 months late in my anger.
Damn it! I hate coming late to the party!
Sitting in the corner sulking.
Happy Birthday and all that crap.
Awwww, damn. Now I went and fucked up the italics.
I’ll punish myself appropriately.
EAP: We regret nothing. NOTHING. Well, nothing we’ve written, anyway.
OK, we regret some of the typos. And I regret my occasional forays into unattractive shrillness (as opposed to my attractive bouts of shrillness).
Happy 2nd anniversary. I love your site, insight, reviews AND kerfuffles…
Sam
Is the 2nd anniversary the man titty anniversary? I do so want to get an appropriate gift!!
Thanks for hurting my eyes, making me spew coffee onto my keyboard, and generally keeping it real.
Long live the bitchery!
Coming out of lurkdom to say~
Happy Anniversary Bitches! Congratulations & many many more & all that stuff. Can’t believe it’s been 2 years already. At least EAP has a blog now!
How in the hell did I miss the Robin Lee Hatcher incident??
Just catching up on some of these arguments and the Robin Schone one caught my eye. I love this comment about anal sex:
I am of the belief that if God wanted a man’s penis there, he wouldn’t have given me a vagina.
What a treat! A high point in the discussion of romance.
How’d I miss that classy comment? HOW??? Yes, the Jan Butler thing was quite the clusterfuck. Ahh, good times, good times.
For your 2nd anniversary, Bitches, may I present to you these two freshly oiled man-titties? As you’ll notice, the man-nips have been teased to full turgidity, and the lighting angled to cast interesting shadows beneath the mounds o’ man-moob-meat and the Improbable Abs below. Enjoy.