Jan Oda sent this video, from a bookshop, Type, in Toronto, Canada. It is adorable. Link! Yes, I wish the final frame was about a "real" book, though I understand what they're saying there. I hope your weekend is filled with curious books in whatever format you want to read them. read more »
The madness continues! Today's Hanukkah gift is another $100 gift certificate to the bookstore of your choice! That ought to buy enough books to last you about a week, right? Maybe 10 days? Just leave a comment with a link or recipe for your favorite snack to eat while you're reading. My favorite cookie: Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, one of the "Best of" from Martha Stewart Living Magazine. A bit more labor intensive than other cookie recipes, but I make them every year as a gift for Hubby, at his request. They are amazing with milk or tea, and a… read more »
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… read more »
We have the Winnahs for our Classic Romance giveaway: First: comment #34 from A.M.K. Also: comment #79 from Becca ETA: You know, two and five are TOTALLY the same number. I misremembered the total number of prizes (DOH) and was kindly reminded that OOPS THREE MORE WINNERS AHOY! (Seriously, this is about as boneheaded an error as I’ve made in awhile. I’ll be savoring this one.) Three more winnahs, drawn from the random integer! AgTigress Beccafoh cayenne (Sorry about that y’all. Seriously. Holy crap.) Congrats to the winners - please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your names and addresses so… read more »
This is a project that’s been in the works for awhile, but it remains useful: the collaborative map of romance-friendly bookstores. With the closing of so many Borders outposts, many people are turning to other bookstores, but the problem with many Indie bookstores is that, to be frank, the people inside them can be snobbish asscheesy hosebeasts when it comes to romance. It’s sad, but true. So where do we shop for romance? Have a look: View Smart Bitches Buy Romance in a larger map Want to add your favorite romance-friendly bookstore to the map? We welcome used and new… read more »
With the news that Borders filed for bankruptcy, I started thinking about the Borders that I went to when I was younger, back when a giant huge bookstore was a luxury I’d never experienced. There were fireplaces! And big huge chairs! And more books than I’d ever seen in my life, and the employees were friendly as opposed to condescending like the people in the local bookstore near my house who never had any good chapter books for kids. Colleen Lindsay was saying that if the local Borders near her brother’s home closes, there won’t be a bookstore for 35… read more »
Here’s some sad, sad Pac-Mans, to quote Stephanie Leary. VIDA posted their count of major publications, their reviewers by gender, and their reviews by gender of the author. Oh, that is one hurtin’ Pac Man collection right there. The New York Times book review pages feature books by men twice as much as books by women, while The New Yorker features books by men four times as much as books by women. I knew it was bad but oh, holy night, that just dropped my jaw. VIDA is ready to “invest our efforts and energy into the radical notion that… read more »
Day one of the Digital Book World conference was a mix of panels that were so great with the amazing awesome brilliance of the panelists the top of my head nearly blew off, and panels that were so infuriating the top of my head nearly blew off. Let’s start with the CEO panel, since that was in the morning. Brian Napack, President of Macmillan, Jane Friedman, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media, David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus, and Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson, were joined by David Nussbam, CEO of F+W Media, to talk around and about digital book… read more »
If I were to develop a designer fashion habit, there are no shortage of email-based and app-based shopping opportunities for me. A whole mess of designer deals are rounded up daily, sometimes twice-daily, by sites like Ideeli, Plundr, Daily Deals, and Daily Candy so if you take a look, suddenly, you - ok, I’ll be honest, ME - find yourself really really needing a strapless dress because it’s 60% off (and holy holy of miracles it is in your size and might possibly fit). The opportunity-buy is a terrible temptation. I’m susceptible to deals in Target and oh Lordy, do… read more »
Something is very rotten in the state of Dorchester. Both Jane Litte and I have been pretty frank about our hesitation to recommend or buy books from Dorchester since it is relatively well-known that some authors haven’t been paid royalties for years. I know Dorchester’s decision to go digital-first has meant some very tricky and pain in the ass changes for authors, particularly when they were anticipating and planning for a print release that was rescheduled at the last moment for a digital release sometime in the nebulous future. But I thought the Dorchester drama was, for the most part,… read more »
Oh, the challenges of setting a schedule for yourself and then facing technological fuckwittery! But now that the poll software and I are getting along, LET THERE BE VOTING. Below, the finalists I selected (wait, you wanted a poll of over 200 entries? No? DIDN’T THINK SO.) for your voting pleasure in the Contemporary Series Name Generator contest. Voting will close Sunday, so click and enjoy. The entries are below the poll. Entry 1 For discriminating readers who love football and despise no-talent starlets, see Heidi Montag repeatedly demolished by bloodthirsty offensive linesmen in…The Football Hills Entry 2 Hero escapes… read more »
Thanks to Pam for this link that made me hoerk coffee on my desk. read more »
Sitting on my countertop right now are a number of printed bound galleys for books coming out in November. Publishing as a rule works so far in advance, editors are now plotting out winter 2011, or even spring 2012, and thinking little about what’s going on in a month or two. That’s marketing and publicity’s department. And, of course, the author’s concern as well. But if you’re a Dorchester author with a mass market release scheduled for this fall, you are thinking a lot about right now - and from my understanding, thinking you are totally lost, up a creek,… read more »
Tomorrow, if ye be in Brooklyn or parts nearby, avast, for I will be part of a splendiferous panel on romance at one of the best independent bookstores in North America, WORD Brooklyn. Along with New York Times bestselling authors Sara McLean, Lauren Willig, Hope Tarr and I will be doing one of those fun panel discussions all about romance, why it’s awesome, and what all you might like to read. I hear rumors of a booksigning afterward. The event was in the New York Times last weekend, which gave me a major OMGWHUT? moment, so I hope that if… read more »
Let’s be somewhat rude and talk about people who aren’t here, by which I mean, people who aren’t on the internet. I know, can you imagine? There are people who aren’t online. I can’t fathom not having the internet. I find it peculiar and disorienting when I am not connected to faraway friends and people who like to talk about romances and cooking with white beans and removing whatever bug is eating my peppers and whatever immediate concerns I’m harboring. But there are people who are not on the internet, romance readers, specifically. Romance, if you recall from the oft-quoted… read more »
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