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January 30, 2011 | Sunday | 322 Comments
Today marks the Sixth Anniversary of this here hot pink website. Our first review was posted January 30, 2005 - a review of Sharon Shinn’s Angel-Seeker. Wow, huh? I’m sort of shocked and amazed and ready to party! The official gifts of the Sixth Anniversary are… wait, don’t have anything liquid in your mouth, ok? … iron, candy, and WOOD. Oh, this is going to be fun. It’s giveaway time! To celebrate our sixth anniversary, I’m giving away the following prizes: That’s 4lbs of chocolate covered cherries, an iron, a 5lb bag of wood, and a Hello Kitty vibrator (a…
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November 05, 2010 | Friday | 18 Comments
From orangehands:
I love this comment: “thumbs up if you looked at yourself and back at Grover and was disappointed you are not a monster.” I totally did!
Have a monster-ful weekend, with lots of leftover candy from LAST monster-ful weekend!
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June 15, 2010 | Tuesday | 55 Comments
I ask myself frequently why I like romance so much. Even after running this site for more than five years, I still ask myself what has me enthralled with romance. And it’s a topic we’ve visited before - Candy wrote about genre constraints back in 2008 and asked why romance’s genre constraints are met with such derision when other genres have similar defining constructs. There is an intricate combination of factors that encourage my return to more romance after I finish reading a novel. Something about the space within those constraints keeps me coming back again and again. What is…
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April 02, 2010 | Friday | 10 Comments
Yes, if you hadn’t guessed, our To Be Read Etsy Store was our 2010 April Fool’s joke. We here love us some April Fools. Here’s a collection of each year’s prank: April Fools 2010: Only the finest hand-crafted reviews for sale! April Fools 2009: The ICH and Jane Litte threaten to sue us over the Bosoms book. We’re being bloody sued?! April Fools 2008: We’re assimilated into the Dear Author network as Jandy and Jarah. April Fools 2007: Chink & Jewy’s Romance Novels the unused original title Candy and I suggested for the site. April Fools 2006: MY NAME IS…
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October 10, 2009 | Saturday | 16 Comments
Jane Sullivan, a syndicated newspaper columnist across Australia, has written a piece about romance fiction. Smart Bitches, Beyond Heaving Bosoms, and Mavis titled Romance fiction deserves respect. Hell, yeah, it does. And it sounds like Sullivan is a fan of the genre herself. o thank Eros for two Americans, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, who dreamed up Mavis for their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels. It’s an unashamed celebration of their great passion, and they make no apology for it…. This is the kind of analysis we want: down to earth, cheeky, motivated by…
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October 07, 2009 | Wednesday | 14 Comments
Dear Internet: I miss you. So very, very much. I’ve started a half-dozen posts (Katiebabs, I’m still working on finishing the cri de coeur—though cri de singe fâché might be more accurate—that’s my review of Cry No More) and left them unfinished. I am shaking my tiny, tiny fist against the various timesuck vortices that have spontaneously emerged around me. But if you miss seeing me on-line, you have an opportunity to see me IN REAL LIFE, if you live in the Portland area and you’re free this weekend, because behold, I’ll be taking part in two events at our…
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September 24, 2009 | Thursday | 24 Comments
Who are the people in the neighborhood, the people in the sidebar each day? They’re the advertisers, and I’m starting a new feature where each month I give you a round up of who is supporting the site this month. The advertisers in the neighborhood help me run contests, pay for international postage, do some conference travel, pay for postage, cover fees and web hosting, assist in bribery of the Esosoft technical support staff when we Google bomb Amazon on Easter Sunday, underwrite postage and cover other expenses like postage. (Guess which is the largest item in my budget?) So…
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July 24, 2009 | Friday | 180 Comments
Great day in the morning! We’re in People Magazine. While the article doesn’t appear to be on their website, in the 3 August issue, featuring a very messy-headed Robert Pattinson and “his messy love life” on the cover, on page 46, there’s BOSOMS! And a list of our very favorite romances. Here, a PDF for your viewing pleasure! People magazine, page 46. People (the magazine, not the plural noun) had asked us for a list of our very favorite romances, and that list was, of course, a LOT longer when we sent it in. Five of our choices made the…
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July 01, 2009 | Wednesday | 6 Comments
Spontaneous Tweetup!
Candy is in town this week, so let us gather and seek out romance heroes. Or drinks. Or both. We’ll be at The Irish Rogue, 356 W 44th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues at 5:30 pm today. Come on down - we’d love to meet you.
Come on down!
ETA: I hear from Katiebabs that tonight is $5 frozen drink night at The Irish Rogue. How roguish! Let there be slushies!
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June 29, 2009 | Monday | 4 Comments
In a rare joint appearance, Candy and I will be on a panel today at NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute, which this year is devoted to Book, Magazine, and Digital Publishing. The panel, which is made up of book bloggers, will discuss how publishers promote books and what we think of the state of publishing. Sorry, folks, I don’t think it’s open to the public. But hell, if it were? It would be a Twitter-extravaganza. For one thing, I think 60% of the panel is named “Sara(h)”, which adds fuel to the theory that there are 9 people total in New…
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June 04, 2009 | Thursday | 11 Comments
Despite the fact that BookTour insists on informing the world that both Candy and I will be in Durham, NC, this weekend, alas, it is just me. The only appearance where Candy and I will be signing together will be in DC, and details are coming soon, mwaaahahahahaha. This Saturday I’ll be at the Barnes & Noble at New Hope Commons at 2pm, and the event is co-sponsored by the Durham County Public Library. It was organized by Fearless Jennifer, Librarian of Excellent, who was kind enough to show me her successful Bosom hunt at the library - which probably…
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May 20, 2009 | Wednesday | 53 Comments
Back in March, Candy and I were interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered, and oh, what a glorious thing. “Magic Hoo Hoo” and “heteronormativity” were said within moments of each other - on NPR? Win. The producer of the show that day, a marvelously savvy woman named Petra, is a romance fan, but alas, the host, Rebecca Roberts had never read a romance novel, and wasn’t sure what to think of them - aside from all the negative stereotypical things one usually hears about romances. When Candy and I recommended a few during the course of the interview, we weren’t…
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May 14, 2009 | Thursday | 21 Comments
Back on 3 May, or 2 May if you were me or Candy, we were on the radio with a hilarious dude named Alan Brough in Melbourne, Australia. It was epic fun.
If you missed it, ABC Melbourne was kind enough to get the mp3 online so if you’d like to listen, have at it. It’s too early for me to listen right now - I’d wake everybody up.
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May 12, 2009 | Tuesday | 11 Comments
It’s another two weeks of nonstop travel and fun for both me and Candy. WOO! 12 May—Today! : Sarah is speaking at the IPDF Digital Book 2009 conference. I think the hashtag is either #db09 or #idpf. I hate when there’s two and I have to use both. Angie James from Samhain Publishing will be speaking at 1:15 on eBook Business Models and the role of DRM. I’m on at 3:15 as part of the panel on “Confessions of an eReadaholic - What Consumers Really Want.” My presentation, which was built in PowerPoint with the help of everyone on Twitter,…
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May 07, 2009 | Thursday | 26 Comments
Thanks to Billie out in Oregon, we have merry happy news in the World of Bosoms:
If you go to the Powell’s Romance page with their top ten list, behold, what wondrous sights should appear?
Beyond Heaving Bosoms is #1!!!!! Commence Snoopy Dance!! Screen cap? Of course!
On top of Twilight? Now that is HILARIOUS. Thank you to everyone who shopped at Powell’s and embraced the Bosoms.
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