Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Headdesk
March 10, 2009 | Tuesday | 26 Comments
Thank you to Tersia for the link to the following article, which I otherwise would never have seen: South African men are fans of the romance.
No, really.
According to the article by Susan Comrie:
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March 04, 2009 | Wednesday | 6 Comments
Rob, the webmastermind for RomanticTimes, has posted his entry about the Lady Jane’s Salon, and it is complete with video of Leanna Hieber’s reading of Jenna Petersen’s book.
There is also an absolutely horrific epicbad picture of me and Ron Hogan. While everyone else at the party is apparently a master of the art of posing for maximum good-photoness, Ron and I look like the prom shot from hell. And there’s a model posing very provocatively over my shoulder. Wow. I am so proud. (*headdesk*)
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February 10, 2009 | Tuesday | 111 Comments
Nikki Lomax-Larson of Military Spouse Magazine has a bit of a problem. She’s a big reader. That’s not the actual problem. Well, there’s multiple problems from where I sit. There’s her admission of secretly desiring to be the creme filling in a Weasley sandwich, and her statement that voracious childhood reading caused her to wear bifocals by third grade. And then there’s this paragraph, which is a light, moist, seven-layer cake of problems: But the one genre I never, ever touched was romance. I couldn’t bring myself to sample the “junk food” of the literary world. That was, until my…
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December 29, 2008 | Monday | 39 Comments
I can’t even measure the size of the dent my head left on my countertop (ow) upon reading this story. The small saving grace is that Hillel Italie yet again does a bang-up job of covering it: Berkley Books has cancelled Herman Rosenblat’s memoir Angel at the Fence after it was revealed that, well, it’s not a memoir. It’s fiction: [Rosenblat] acknowledged that he and his wife did not meet, as they had said for years, at a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where she allegedly sneaked him apples and bread. While Rosenblat was indeed at Buchenwald, as historical documentation proves, his…
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