Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Vikings
April 16, 2012 | Monday | 56 Comments
On the airport shuttle from the Hyatt Regency O'Hare yesterday, I met a young woman who was traveling home to North Carolina. I didn't get a chance to get her name and write it down (it was an airport hotel after all, and we were too busy talking about books during the 8 minute ride) but she told me a very lovely story. She traveled to Romantic Times to meet friends she knew only online, and she came only for the Saturday Book Fair. Her home is in North Carolina, so she flew to Atlanta, then to Chicago, just for…
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January 23, 2009 | Friday | 4 Comments
Time for another set of the Videomo contestants each Friday so you can review and enjoy. You’ll be voting in February so keep your favorites in mind - and feel free to star them at YouTube and leave comments there, if you like. You can see them all at the SBTB Playlist on YouTube.
This week: kickin’ music, bodices, and a mighty, mighty viking. No, seriously. Viking. Check it out.
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November 25, 2008 | Tuesday | 46 Comments
So many of you have forwarded me the Questionable Content cartoon for today entitled, ‘I love you, Sandra Hill.’ Have a look. Perhaps your blood pressure will rise a bit at the “just a shitty romance novel.” And again at “Girl-porn.” But look closer - she who casts the stone of “Girl-porn?” In the next frame she’s grabbing that paperback and then reading it. And even as the girl who calls her novel “shitty hilarious girl porn” sneers at it, she’s totally into it. I’d like to know where she falls on the Dear Author Apologia Scale. Haj wrote, “I…
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