Bitchin' Blog Posts
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October 29, 2011 | Saturday | 1 Comments
Thanks and mad props to the October advertisers! These are the lovely folks whose support helps underwrite hosting, posting, and all the merriment here, and without them there wouldn’t be as much Bitchery to go around
Thanks for advertising with us, and thank you to everyone who has clicked on an ad and taken a closer look at a book. You’re helping support advertisers who want to reach romance readers directly, and that’s excellent.
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September 24, 2011 | Saturday | 2 Comments
It’s time to thank the September advertisers - thank you! Muchas gracias! Toda rabbi! These are the lovely folks who fund hosting, posting, and general shenanigans, and without them, the site wouldn’t be as funky and definitely not as hot pink.
Thank you for advertising with us, and thank you to everyone who has clicked on the ads, because you’re supporting advertisers who want to reach romance readers directly.
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August 31, 2011 | Wednesday | 3 Comments
Time to thank the August advertisers - thank you! These are the awesome folks who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and for everyone who has taken a look at the ads, thank you for supporting folks who want to reach romance readers directly!
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July 30, 2011 | Saturday | 4 Comments
Time to thank the July advertisers - thank you! These are the awesome folks who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and for everyone who has taken a look at the ads, thank you for supporting folks who want to reach romance readers directly!
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May 25, 2011 | Wednesday | 54 Comments
Violet has a dilemma, and she needs your help. *** I have a problem that I hope the Bitchery can help me with. (Perhaps some of you have the self-same problem?) I call it the “What to read? What to read? The May 31st dilemma.” May 31st is coming, which ordinarily wouldn’t mean much. Just another day. But it’s a Tuesday this year, which means it’s a book release day. Again, ordinarily it mightn’t mean much. Maybe something interesting is being released, maybe something not. But this year, I have a problem. Two books that I really, really, really want…
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May 23, 2011 | Monday | 7 Comments
Time again to thank this month’s advertisers, who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and thank you for supporting our advertisers!
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May 12, 2011 | Thursday | 19 Comments
Per Shelf Awareness today, Audible has launched ACX, which enables authors to create audiobooks of their work, either by narrating them or by hiring voice actors from the registered database of talent. Here, have a video about it, featuring two actors who really irritated me with their pseudo-bashful self-congratulatory demeanor: The upshot is that so many excellent books are not made into audio books, and with the increasing success of self-publishing ventures in digital and print-on-demand, audiobooks are a natural extension of that success. The ACX program is available to authors at a flat rate or at a 50/50 share…
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April 29, 2011 | Friday | 39 Comments
Monday I am going to speak about romance at the Connecticut Library Association conference. My session goals are to both talk about romance to librarians who may be leery or misinformed about it, and to also highlight some excellent books to have in a library collection and share ways to welcome romance readers into libraries. I’m also going to talk about what avid, rabid readers we are, and how much we love libraries with solid romance collections (I just got tingly goosebumps writing that, thinking of all the shelves of romance novels at my local library growing up). I have…
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April 28, 2011 | Thursday | 4 Comments
Thanks to the many people who spread the word about Beverly Barton’s latest book release on Tuesday. From the comments to the entry, here are the winners Mona Garg Flo Lauren N Rae (@5:53am) I hope her book does stunningly well, and that everyone who has a copy really enjoys it. I also want to highlight this comment from Tricky: This sad event made me realize how very little I do to let my favorite authors know how much I enjoy their work. This past weekend, after reading about Beverly’s death, I wrote several emails to several authors thanking them…
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April 18, 2011 | Monday | 18 Comments
Guilty Pleasures is a movie about romance, by which I mean the genre, as told through three readers, a writer, and a cover model (Sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn’t it?. It premiered in the US in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and mega-power librarian Jennifer Lohmann went with her book club to see it. What follows is her review and reaction. I found it very fascinated particularly in light of my own questions about the Mr. Romance pageant at RT, and the ever-changing way in which romance and its readers are portrayed…
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April 11, 2011 | Monday | 28 Comments
I’m home from RT, I’m unpacked, and, in deference to the past 5 days I spent in heels, I’m not wearing shoes. It’s weird to go from hearing and seeing the people I talk to all day back to reading their comments online. It’s very… quiet in here. The roundtable Jane and I led focused on where and how readers discover books. Kat from the ARe Cafe has a write-up of the session. Most readers discover books they want to read online, either by recommendations or by reviews - or even seeing what people have recently bought. I said this…
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March 14, 2011 | Monday | 18 Comments
It’s time to fill out your brackets for the 2010 DABWAHA tournament of books. If you’re not familiar with it, the DABWAHA is a bracket-style tournament that echoes the NCAA basketball tourney, only instead of college basketball, we’re using reader votes to determine the book of the year. I’ve got a lot of DABWAHA news, in convenient bullet-list format. The reader nominations are in - and each category is now complete with 8 nominees, one in each picked by readers! I am going to post the top 10 reader nominations in each category - because you need more books to…
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February 28, 2011 | Monday | 4 Comments
Yet again this past month I received an email from a reader looking for a past advertisement, wanting to find a book she’d seen here but couldn’t recall. So, for your shopping and memory-nudging usage, here are the February advertisers, all lined up looking stunning. You can find past months of advertisers in the advertiser tag, a link to which is always under the ad column. Thanks for advertising here, y’all, and helping me keep the site floating on postage, hosting, and crazy mayhem, with occasional breaks for cookies. There are not terribly many places where romance publishers and authors…
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February 24, 2011 | Thursday | 43 Comments
One of the sessions I attended at Tools of Change was from BeneTech, which works to make books accessible to those with significant physical obstacles to reading, such as visual impairment or learning disability. Listening to that presentation, I tweeted some of it and heard back from a reader named Sassy Outwater, who agreed with some of the points and offered to school me on what blind readers need and have to facilitate their own reading enjoyment. I know absolutely squatnada about blind readers. And so I asked a bunch of really ignorant and obvious questions, and Sassy was kind…
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February 22, 2011 | Tuesday | 47 Comments
There’s a software update coming to the Kindle, with some features that I suspect users will very much enjoy. First, page numbers, not locations, so as to make the citing of passages easier for people who cite things regularly. 2 WOOHOOs and a fist pump for that. Second, public notes. And I quote: “Any Kindle user—including authors, their fans, book reviewers, professors and passionate readers everywhere—can opt-in to share their thoughts on book passages and ideas with friends, family members, colleagues, and the greater Kindle community of people who love to read.” (emphasis mine) So, hold up, instead of changing…
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