Thanks to your responses for my request for help last week, I had a pile of entries to choose from, and not surprisingly, my list was very similar to yours. I really, truly appreciate knowing how much you enjoy the site, so thank you most of all for that.
Smart Bitches was nominated in five categories, and after thinking about it, I withdrew our nomination for “Best Romance Blog” because we won last year. Totally an honor. Woo! So I focused on the four categories as follows:
Most Humorous/Funniest Blog
Most Eclectic Taste Blog
Best Reviews
Most Collaborative Blog
Here are the links I submitted for each category, compiled at the request of many because they wanted to see the slate. Enjoy!
Most Collaborative Blog
I collaborate with so many people, it was hard to pick which ones best highlighted the awesomely super smart people who I’ve worked with in the last year to 18 months.
Obviously, there’s DocTurtle. DocTurtle Reviews Romance began in October 2008 and continues to the present, so I included two links.
2008, August
An Open Letter from SB Sarah (The DocTurtle Challenge)
2008, October- present
DocTurtle Reads Romance
2008, April
Amazon Rank
Amazon Rank was a collaboration with pretty much the entire population of people online on Easter Sunday, I think.
2009, June
The Smart Bitches Test Drive with Sony and Harlequin
Sony + Harlequin + 30 Test Drivers + me = hella good collaboration!
2009, August
Save the Contemporary: Category Romance
I learn something every time I collaborate with Jane from Dear Author.
Most Eclectic Taste Blog
We here at the hot pink palace (and by “we” I totally include you) are interested in a whole mess of different things.
2008, September
The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones
2009, January
Pricing An Ebook – How High Is Too High?
2009, May
Breaking Up With a Series
2008, June
More Pink Shoes, More Controversy
2009, February
Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Romance Novels: Changing Everything
BEST REVIEWS:
This was a difficult category to pick for!
2008, September
The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones
2009, April
Butterfly Tattoo by Deidre Knight
Many people cited the “Butterfly Tattoo” review as one that they thought was very well written. Thank you.
2008, March
Decadent by Shayla Black
Can you ever go wrong with LOLPorn? No, you cannot.
2009, August
Pregnesia by Carla Cassidy
Hilarious review of a fun book, with a bonus response from the author that is so good, it should be dipped in gold and held up as the standard of online awesomeness for everyone throughout the land.
2009, July
DocTurtle by JR Ward
The Dohctohr is Ihn.
MOST HUMOROUS/FUNNIEST BLOG
This was SO difficult to figure out. I kid you not. You were the biggest help with this category. Thank you.
2009, January
Covers Gone Wild: Fourth Anniversary Edition
Dark Lover by JR Ward, Chapters 26-30
Caption That Cover: Penis Sword!
LATHING! There shall be NO MORE LATHING!
So that’s the slate – I hope you enjoy it. I had a good old time going back down the populated archive that is the wayback machine on this site. Thank you for your help. Now, feel free to tell me I have my head waaay up my ass and why didn’t I pick that other entry over there?
Who says Bitches aren’t classy!?!
Spreadin’ the love by removing your name so other romance blogs have a chance at the title is made of win, and I think you did a great job sifting through all the awesomeness to pick just a few items -since this is the interwebs and not a stage performance, instead of “Break A Leg” do I say “Break A Finger?”
It must have been so hard to choose just a small cross section from the awesomeness that is your ouevre; you did a wonderful job narrowing the nominations down to some of the true gems. I was thrilled to see Dhoc Tuhrtle appear there. If I wasn’t happily married I’d be after that man. Mrs. Turhtle is a lucky woman (who probably laughs a lot!). Dhoc’s reviews make my day and, to me, justify the existence of the BDB books. (I made it through one and it had no literary value to me even as mild entertainment. But as comedic fodder…)
Good luck…you’re sure to come home with another award this year!
Yay! The penis sword blog!!
Please add this to your Best Of so people (including myself since I don’t have time right now) can look at them in the future.
Hi Amanda: Done!
It seems to be great…I don’t believe romance or chilvalry is dead. I still get doors opened for me everyday, but both my own man and others.
Pretty good post. I just came across your site and wanted to say
that I have really liked reading your posts. Any way
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!