Bitchin' Blog Posts
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April 09, 2012 | Monday | 19 Comments
The Dark Wife was recommended in the thread of f/f romance recommendations, and when I read the summary, I was really curious. Then I started reading the book and before I knew it, I was more than a third of the way into the book, it was nearly midnight, and my brain had no idea where the past two and a half hours had gone. This book swallows you whole. Be wary of picking it up if you only have a few minutes to read. The story moves so fast and the prose is so attentiongrabby that you'll keep going…
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February 04, 2012 | Saturday | 105 Comments
In the comments to the entry about the discrimination of the Romance Writers Ink published writers contest, DreadPirateRachel and Keri asked for a Good Shit vs. Shit to Avoid for f/f romance, or, in other words, lesbian romances. Keri commented, "It's easy to find m/m, but I'm having a really hard time with f/f, especially fluffier kinds. I love Sarah Waters and Emma Donoghue, who are always suggested, but their writing tends to be more literary and heavy and less "romance novel", and when I try to find others, I often just come across erotica meant for the male gaze.…
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May 07, 2010 | Friday | 28 Comments
Starting today at All Romance eBooks and running through 9 May, you get 50% rebates on every ebook purchase as a Mother’s Day special. So if you spend $6.00 on an ebook, you get $3 in “ebook bucks” - the ArE equivalent of the eeeevil seduuuuuctive Micropay from Fictionwise. I’m looking for digital book recommendations, too - so if you have a book to recommend, and yes, feel free to pimp your own, I’m curious to know what you’re reading, what you’re liking, and what you’re pimpin’. Operators are standing by! Which is to say, I’m sitting at my desk…
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August 13, 2009 | Thursday | 49 Comments
From very alert reader Cora comes this bit of HILARITY. This month’s Mills & Boon Newsletter highlights some of their recommended titles, including Kathleen O’Reilly’s Sex, Straight Up, which is being released by M&B as Intoxicating!
That’s all well and drunken fun but… what’s this? Looks like The Virgin Secretary’s Impossible Boss got a whole new workplace problem.
OMG VIRGIN LESBIAN CATEGORY ROMANCE. WHY didn’t I think of THAT?!
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July 24, 2009 | Friday | 14 Comments
The deadline for the Simon Kernick is Awesome Photoshop contest is midnight tonight EST—and the entries are HILARIOUS. I’m posting them this weekend so stay tuned - voting will commence on Monday. Hubby in particular has been after me to show him the entries. They are so worth the wait, let me tell you. And, to coax you into thinking creatively, here’s a link that made me choke on the diet Coke. From AfterEllen, Harlequin novels that focus on more sports than just NASCAR. Harlequin is really onto something here: romance novels targeted at a previously untapped market. You know…
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May 05, 2009 | Tuesday | 57 Comments
If you missed the great awesome news: RWA has a new chapter, the Rainbow Romance Writers, a GLBT Romance chapter. WOO HOO! How awesome is that? Mazel tov! I first heard the news from RWA President Diane Pershing at the Princeton romance conference, though she asked at the time that the announcement not be made until the final details had been filed - so I didn’t mention it then. There was, however, applause and squeeing at the time. No comment on who exactly was squeeing. So while I was waiting for the official word from RWA, which went out 1…
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April 12, 2009 | Sunday | 227 Comments
Dampening my snickering glee at being ranked among Movements and Periods is the news that Amazon seems to be stripping the sales figures and accompanying rankings from GLBTQ books, erotica, and romance novels, particularly those with what they term “adult content.” In short: someone in Amazon has utter shit for brains. Authors such as Jaci Burton, Maya Banks, Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler have reported that since being stripped of their sales rankings, their titles are no longer found in searches on Amazon.com. MetaWriter is also compiling a list of titles that have been stripped of their sales rank. When…
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December 25, 2008 | Thursday | 47 Comments
Have a look at this festive tree. Go on, gaze up on it. For today’s giveaway, we can ponder this beautiful image and get creative. What better way to be inspired than by 9’ Pre-Lit White Crystal Pine Upside Down Artificial Christmas Tree. And as you gaze upon the inverted, perhaps subverted, wonder, ask yourself this burning, delightful question: What Christmas carols would have been written had all trees looked like 92-pound $800.00 upside-down white-frosted vaginas? Because this is CLEARLY a case for a ding dong merrily on high. Leave your suggestion, your parody, or your suggestive carol goodness in…
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July 04, 2008 | Friday | 10 Comments
Gay Pride Day was June 29, and thanks to Iron Lesbian #2, here’s a Schoolhouse Rock style gay US history lesson.
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May 14, 2008 | Wednesday | 140 Comments
Thanks to the multiple Bitchery readers who forwarded this over. Erotica author and editor Zane emailed a DC-area email loop the following account of how her latest book is facing an uphill battle in terms of finding places in which to advertise. Why? Because it’s Black erotica? Nope. Because it’s gay. Specifically, according to Zane’s email, lesbian erotica. Read on Zane’s Apology for the Status of Today’s World At first, I was going to hold my tongue about this issue; I really was. When one of the biggest National chain bookstores informed my publicist that my latest book was “too…
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