Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Robin Hood
December 09, 2008 | Tuesday | 51 Comments
Joanne Renaud, illustrator to the stars (ok, well, illustrator to us), has a question - whatever happened to Sue Wilson. Have you heard of Sue Wilson, who wrote this great romance novel “Greenwood,” which has an Alan Rickman-esque Sheriff of Nottingham as the hero? Your review for “What a Scoundrel Wants” made me think of it again. The book was originally put up online on the now defunct St. Rose Press (it was an AOL Hometown page, and those were all shut down in October), and was such a hit that NovelBooks Inc decided to publish it in ‘03. But…
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December 04, 2008 | Thursday | 8 Comments
Behold, the winners, after careful consideration, much giggling, and a great deal of snorting, of What a Scoundrel Wants giveaway”>the What a Scoundrel Wants giveaway. Well done with the poetry, y’all. Carrie Lofty and I had a nearly identical list of favorites. The winners are: Sarah F’s “Robin! Robin! Burning bright.” Because I’ve said at least three times, with varying degrees of volume and inflection, “What the hand dare seize the cock!” Tina C’s “A Really Bad Poem.” Because you had me and my abdominal muscles at “Fad dad glad mad schmad. Oh, hell, schmad isn’t even a word!” It…
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December 02, 2008 | Tuesday | 82 Comments
In order to get this review going, I have to get one thing out of the way: “Fuck me, he cleared it!” Ok, then. The buzz is a-building about Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants since the buzz-o-matic Ann Aguirre launched a viral contest to spread the word about Lofty’s debut with Kensington. I read this book a few weeks ago, and I have to say, Lofty set herself for a hell of a task: she took a legend with which most people were familiar, and a setting and time period that hadn’t been visited within the romance genre in…
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