I just read Bitch Planet: Extraordinary Machine and now I want to run through the mall shrieking, “NON-COMPLIANT! NON-COMPLIANT!” at the top of my lungs. This comic is a huge rush and I adored it. I love comics, but I prefer to binge them rather than read one issue at a time, so I’m a little late to the Bitch Planet party (I was waiting for the first collected volume, which came out in October). … Continue reading Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro →
Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (X-Factor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on women-in-prison sci-fi exploitation. In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman’s failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes … Continue reading Bitch Planet Volume 1 →
This week I am joined by Shani and Bridget from the Romance at a Glance podcast! We talk about their current season, where they’re focusing on dark romances, and about podcasting. Then, we talk about a book. For this episode, we all read Draekon Mate: Exiled to the Prison Planet. Check this blurb: “Crashed spaceship. Prison planet. Snarling, lethal predators. Two big, hulking, bronzed aliens who turn into dragons. The best part? The dragons insist … Continue reading 450. Dragons on the Sex Planet with Shani and Bridget from Romance at a Glance →
It’s a special, extended length episode: Amanda and I are joined by Melody and Erin from the incredibly delightful podcast Heaving Bosoms! I guested on their show and they joined us to return the favor. We read Toxic Desire by Robin Lovett, and we had a LOT to talk about. Spoilers abound! But with forked tongued aliens sporting aphrodisiac venom fangs and gold body armor crash landing on a toxic sex gas planet, that’s not … Continue reading 441. Bosoms and Bitches: A NSFW Discussion of Toxic Desire →
We are back with Kiki, Catherine Heloise, and Shana from the SBTB team, with recs, good wishes, and…a CHEESE CONUNDRUM. We cover low-angst reads, scientific research, Let’s All Leave the Planet, SkypeSpeare, and CHEESE HULLABALOO. We’re sending you good thoughts and many good book wishes from a safe and acceptable social distance. … Music: https://www.purple-planet.com You can subscribe to Smart Podcast, Trashy Books via your favorite podcatcher app! You can also listen online at Stitcher … Continue reading 399. Bitches Assemble Part III: More Recommendations with Kiki, Catherine Heloise, and Shana →
Need a break? We are back with some of the SBTB team, who offer more comforting recommendations, and extend their good wishes into the world. This week, Sneezy, Ellen, Maya, Tara, and Aarya want to tell you about new books, old favorites, and some games that are bringing them comfort. We’re sending you good thoughts and many good book wishes from a safe and acceptable social distance. TW/CW: The stress of witnessing global racism during … Continue reading 398. Bitches Assemble: Recommendations for Comfort with Sneezy, Ellen, Tara, Maya and Aarya →
Need a break? I’m connecting with each of the Smart Bitches writing team from around the world to see how they’re doing, collect some comforting recommendations, and extend their good wishes into the world. Cozy up and join us for part one with Carrie in California, Elyse in Wisconsin, Lara from South Africa, and Amanda and I from Boston and Maryland. We have books to read and re-read, recommendations for resilience, and familiarity, and absolute … Continue reading 397. Bitches Assemble: Recommendations for Comfort with Carrie, Elyse, Lara, Amanda & Sarah →
Susan Grant has written some of my favorite science fiction romance novels. Alas, Your Planet or Mine (soon to be reprinted as Guardian Alien) is not one of them. Basically, this is a bodyguard romance with Cavin, an alien, protecting Jana, a human, from an alien assassin while trying to stop an invasion of Earth without torpedoing Jana’s political career. The story is set in Sacramento during the early 2000s. Jana Jasper, a State Senator, comes … Continue reading Your Planet or Mine by Susan Grant →
It’s time for our March Book Club pick, and I am really excited for this one. This month, we’re reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. While the book was published in 1962 and is a much-loved classic, the new film version directed by Ava Duvernay comes out on March 7. So at the end of the month, we’ll be discussing both the book and the film, if you can make time to both read … Continue reading Smart Bitches Book Club March Selection: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle →
Howdy, folks! It’s time for the August edition of the Smart Bitches Business Update, wherein I fling myself with giddy abandon into the behind the scenes details of the Hot Pink Palace of Bitchery. As I discussed in an upcoming podcast interview with Leah and Bea Koch from The Ripped Bodice, small business ownership in a very-rapidly-holy-crap-what-the-hell changing marketplace and environment is challenging, to say the least. So this column is partly answering questions some of … Continue reading Smart Bitches Business Update: August 2017 →
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is bad. It is so bad that it made me actually angry. It is so bad that I got bored and would have left were it not for my viewing companion who insists on never leaving a movie. Never have I been presented with something so visually enticing that is also so very, very boring. When my husband came home and asked me what the movie is … Continue reading Movie Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets →
