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November 10, 2010 | Wednesday | 3 Comments
Time for another holiday gift guide! It’s much more fun to catalog shop when I’m thinking of everyone else in the internet, let me tell you. Today’s guide: for the young book-loving folks you might know, with products I’ve tried, seen, or have watched my two sons enjoy. I’m not recommending very many specific books, but if you’d like to recommend stories that young readers would love, have at it at the comments. Tickle Monster: Laughter Kit - My three year-old, Baba O’Riley, was given this book for his birthday, and he loves it. His older brother loves it, too.…
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October 07, 2010 | Thursday | 142 Comments
I recently discovered three advice email messages in the spam folder - which I feel really shitty about and I apologize. This letter came in mid-August, and while it’s been almost 2 months since it was sent, I wanted to answer it and discuss here because the romance/porn accusation is unfortunately perennial. That said, I don’t know if this person is still in this relationship and I don’t have an update. Dear Smart Bitch Sarah: I have a general question for anyone who also loves romance that may be willing to help me untangle a sticky situation in my current…
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May 05, 2010 | Wednesday | 8 Comments
Gosh you’d think the internet was really for p0rn or pictures of cats, but really, it’s all about WOMEN. Heh. And not in the porny sense, either. From an article from Bob d’Awessome, women not only rule mobile social networking, but we rule social media, too. This doesn’t surprise me now that I’ve thought about it. I barely have time to return phone calls and have long conversations but I text all day with friends all over the country about new babies, Tylenol recalls (yes, my children’s pain relief options are now down to bourbon and schnapps), and whatever else…
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May 02, 2010 | Sunday | 16 Comments
From RWA Librarian of the Year Jennifer Lohmann (can you tell I’m still giddy about that? NO? I will endeavor to be MORE SUPER EXTRA DOUBLE GIDDY) (Tomorrow. I am le tired) comes this link. It’s so fun and awesome, it’s the whole entry: Hot Guys Reading Books.
It was brought to her attention due to Jason Pinter’s post on (Huff)PoBooks about the fallacy that men don’t read. Now, the men I know absolutely do read. And I’ll be hiding around corners taking pictures of Hubby reading now. It’ll drive him nuts.
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October 23, 2009 | Friday | 7 Comments
More joy from my inbox. It is a very crowded place, my inbox, but I swear, thanks to you it is the best inbox in all the land. First, from Missy: proof that reading romance can make you an outstanding parental role model. A friend of mine watched The Middle the other night. He said that an 8 year old kid was reading a romance novel to his friend. He said a line something like: “‘And as the count entered the room, her bosom heaved.’ That means she threw up!” Oh, crap is THAT what’s happening in all those old…
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September 29, 2009 | Tuesday | 20 Comments
Bitchery reader Heather writes: I think I know why there are so many paranormal romances in the past years: because back in the 80s there were these YA paranormal “romances” where the girl learns some cool little power and finds a boy and they (maybe) kiss. I had a favorite one of those in the 1980s, and I can’t remember author/title. Nostalgia is egging me to find it again, and google is not finding it. Help! Setting: Down Under somewhere (either Australia or NZ. Somewhere English speaking and southern hemisphere). Villian: Old creep guy who has a fixation with growing…
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August 15, 2009 | Saturday | 23 Comments
Awhile back I started a public map of booksellers that specialize in romance, new or used. Take a look: View Smart Readers Buy Romance: A romance-friendly bookstore directory in a larger map It’s public, so anyone should be able to add a bookstore to the listing. I just added Second Hand Prose LLC at the suggestion of Shaina, because she sent me the following cellphone pictures from inside the bookstore that would make any Harlequin lover absolutely drop over with envy. You ready to drool, all you ruthless Sicilian Greek Sheikh tycoon billionaire magnate surgeon duke fans? You want some…
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June 06, 2009 | Saturday | 7 Comments
First: will the party who informed the bugs that I am in the state please refer back to the Treaty of South Carolina 1993, wherein all bugs that (a) bite and that I am (b) allergic to (which is, for the record, ALL of them) agreed to leave me alone whenever I migrate south of the Mason-Dixon line, and remind said bugs that the treaty is in effect in perpetuity? Kthxbye. (I’m going to need some Benadryl like holy shit.) Once the flying part of my travel was done, I arrived in a cool, windy, NOT raining Durham, where everyone…
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April 17, 2009 | Friday | 20 Comments
Behold: the Heaving Bosoms Hunt Photographs! After we challenged the Bitchery to find the Bosoms in the wild, oh boy, did you deliver. There are so many pictures of Bosoms it’s a long, long entry, so enjoy. The winner of the $100 bookstore giftcard for finding the first evidence of the Bosoms in a bookstore will be announced at the end. But! But but! Everyone’s a winnah! If your pics are here (or if you sent ‘em and I missed them, please nudge!) please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with the subject line “Bosom Sighting Prize” (I can’t even tell you what…
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April 16, 2009 | Thursday | 26 Comments
Bright and early tomorrow morning, I’ll be hopping in the Prius (gets better gas milage than my car) and heading southwest to the fine, windy roads of Boonsboro, Maryland, to take part in the Turn the Page Bookstore WRW Pre-Retreat Signing from 11 am until 2pm. I’ll be signing copies of the Bosoms (the book, not my own), along with Nora Roberts, J D Robb, P. C. & Kristin Cast, Susan Donovan, Mary Blayney, Darlene Gardner, Donna Kauffman, Sally MacKenzie, Michelle Monkou, Sophia Nash, Carla Neggers, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Michelle Willingham & Rebecca York. Stay tuned all day Friday for…
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April 14, 2009 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
It’s Bosoms Day, and folks everywhere are heading to the bookstores to find themselves some Heaving Bosoms. But soft, what hunt through yonder bookshelf yields? It is confusion, for the Bosoms are hiding in the strangest of places! MANY people have sent in hilarious pictures of the bosoms - and I have them ready to upload. Trouble is, right now we’re online across five servers due to increased traffic, and the upshot is that anything I upload may not consistently be available. But fear not - Bosom Sightings are plentiful! And hilarious! But in bookstores? Oh boy. Anne Douglas just…
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April 13, 2009 | Monday | 38 Comments
Tuesday 7 April, I flew up to Toronto to hunt for the sheikh billionaire tycoon surgeon duke cowboy, who I’m told is named Don. Don Mills. Alas, even though I searched through several different floors of Harlequin Headquarters, Don hid from me, and I didn’t capture him on film.
I did, however, have a ripping good time wandering all over the offices of HQN HQ.
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April 03, 2009 | Friday | 63 Comments
Now that we’re less than two weeks away from release date - although I have word that some lucky folks have received shipment notifications already - it seems we have a strange problem. No, we’re not being sued by a organizations made up of disgruntled heroic archetypes - thank God. It seems our book will be a bit hard to find, like a red-breasted titty in the underbrush, or a Dodo bird in a cavernous grotto. How come? Well, unless you ordered it or requested it, it may not be in your local bookstore, given the order figures I’ve heard…
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March 31, 2009 | Tuesday | 13 Comments
I’ll be updating this page as more events are scheduled, but as of today, here are all the places you can meet either Sarah or Candy. We’re still waiting on word as to whether we’ll be appearing together this summer. That’ll set the tectonic plates a-dancing, for sure. I’m trying out this site called BookTour.com, where you can see all the events I have lined up online, subscribe to an RSS feed. I’m also listing the events I know of for certain below, because (a) BookTour didn’t have everything available, such as the Princeton Conference and Lady Jane’s Salon, and…
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March 01, 2009 | Sunday | 3 Comments
Following the Mills & Boon vs. Kissing Ban entry, I received an email from author Rebecca Pawel, who is often in Spain doing research for her historical mystery series, set in 1940’s Spain.
Inspired by the Mills and Boon vs. Virgin entry, I tracked down a flickr photo of a sort of opposite ad campaign that made me smile when I was in the Asturias a couple of years ago.
Background: The
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