I heard a rumor that an RWA publication was going to link to us, and dropping into our site without any introduction? Like jumping into the cold water pool after being in the hot tub for three hours. So! Welcome, hello, and greetings – this is the Smart Bitchery. We love us some romance.
If you scroll around, scroll around, you’ll find our weekly Cover Snark, wherein we harsh on what makes reading romance something of an occupational hazard. We wage the weekly war against man-titty covers, and wish that publishers would stop putting rape-esque clinch covers on the books we read. But then, what would we make fun of every week?
We also host a weekly Guess that Lonely Heart contest, wherein we write a personal ad from a romance heroine, and invite our readers to guess the heroine’s name, author name, and title of the book. Winners are crowned with a Smart Bitch Title and are part of the Smart Bitch Royal Circle.
We host writing contests judged by our readership, and we discuss what works and what doesn’t work for us as romance readers, and of course, we write no-holds-barred reviews of romance written by the two Smart Bitches who love (a) language (b) strong heroes and (c) romance done right.
For a collection of our “Best of,” check out our Best of the Bitchery entry.
I noticed that! RWA puts out an email newsletter every two weeks and you were mentioned in an article on blogging. So you’ll get some RWA traffic I guess, although lots (like me) read you anyway.
Everyone knows the SB’s rule. Well, almost everyone. I’m still waiting to see this site show up on Newsweek’s “Blog of the week” list.