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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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April 16, 2009 | Thursday | 2 Comments
Over at Brenda Janowitz’ blog, we have a special, sneaky treat. A copy of the The International Consortium of Heroes’ supah-sekret Handbook (really, more like guidelines) of Romantic Hero Conduct has mysteriously found its way into Smart Bitch Candy’s hands, and behold, there art excerpts and funny bits to be read: Thanks to an Anonymous Source, we here at Smart Bitch Central have in our hot little hands the International Consortium of Heroes’ Manly Handbook to Heroic Behavior, the official ICH Guidebook for all things manly and heroic. Previously kept secret and circulated only among member heroes, this guide details…
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April 01, 2009 | Wednesday | 14 Comments
We probably don’t need to say this, but the formation of the Dear Author Literary Agency, the closing of Dear Author, and the injunctive suit against the Smart Bitches is all part of our April Foolery. (although, seriously, we do not want the secrets of the ICH to get out. It would shake the foundation of romance should villians get ahold of the secret of impregnating barren women. That plot line would be ruined forever and then what would happen to the baby epilogues?) To make the Foolery seem more believable, we recruited several people into our scheme and we…
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April 01, 2009 | Wednesday | 5 Comments
I didn’t want to have to do this, but I have archived proof that I did in fact receive the email from the ICH revealing their hesitant position on outsourcing to male-male romance. Attached is a lengthy 5-page PDF. I was typing the manuscript when Perry contacted me over instant messenger, and I grabbed the conversation and pasted it into my draft of the manuscript’s “Heroes” chapter so I could refer back to it. I’m still looking for the original headers to the email message proving that the messages were forwarded from Perry’s email account, but it seems his Lordship…
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October 28, 2008 | Tuesday | 19 Comments
I was asked to guest blog over at the League of Reluctant Adults this week, as they’re hosting a Halloween celebration of sorts. I dug into my notes from the writing of The Smart Bitch Book and revealed some minutes from the ICH, the International Consortium of Heroes, Vampire Division.
Enjoy. And see if you can catch the hidden joke in there.
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