Every year I ponder the April Fool’s Day post, and try to come up with ideas. This year, Amanda nailed it.
This year: Our blind (book) dating reality show has been optioned!
Introducing The Bookshelf.
Contestants – Readers, of course – search for their OTPR™ , their One True Perfect Read.
Combining the WTFery of The Bachelor/Ette franchise with the individual pods of Love is Blind, contestants on The Bookshelf begin in private libraries, listening to audiobooks and sampling many different books and genres. Then Readers work together to help each other find their OTPR. Everyone wins!
Of course, Pudding and Elyse are involved. Elyse is in charge of making sure someone, somewhere, has an inexplicable bathtub on a hillside for reading, and they will both be recapping the show – when Pudding isn’t judging everyone and everything.
(Psst – you can buy the “I am the Final Rose” sticker above, and other SBTB stickers. A portion of the proceeds from Pudding’s sticker will be donated to The Pawffee Shop in Wisconsin.)
Amanda and I are very excited to be executive producing this show, and cannot wait for it to air.
It’s a journey, y’all. A journey.
Happy April 1st, everyone. I hope this brought a smile to your face!
Want to look back at some of our past April Fool’s editions? Here are a few of my favorites:
In 2022: we had some turgid hotwallets with our own cryptocurrency, BitchCoin!
In 2021, we created the Smart Bitches Smart Device! It’ll track your reading and embeefen your wifi while picking fights with other appliances that aren’t getting the job done.
In 2020, we worked with all our pets to remove the weight of the world from your shoulders with Smart Bitches Weightless Blankets.
We’ve fallen in love with rabbits, and made our own social media network in 2014 complete with hoax-detection technology (wow, wish that had been real). Especially now!
And still, one of my all-time most-favorite April Fool’s Day inventions?
Our 2015 Time-stopping wearable device that doubles as a reader, pedometer, page counter, audio device, sale alarm, and timekeeper.
One of my favorite games is ‘Where is my venture capitalist’ because I am really good at developing completely necessary yet fundamentally difficult technology for readers. (OK, mostly for myself, but still, I will share!)
We’ll be back next year with more silliness, but until then, Happy April, folks.
See you next year!
Nailed it, as usual. I can’t imagine why this wouldn’t be the Best Reality Dating Show Ever™.
I could watch that show or be on it.
I keep mashing the button but I can’t get to the application? Fanatic readers already overwhelmed the system?
Are you taking international applicants? If so, I am SO THERE.
Fantastic job, as usual!
Will there be a Hometowns episode, where the contestants can go beyond the pages of their prospective True Reads?
Still here for Pudding. She definitely judges us all.
Thanks, y’all! Amanda came up with this year’s page, and it’s brilliant. Yes, this is absolutely open to international applicants, and Hometowns is going to be EPIC. The budget we have allows us to build full-scale VR experiences of the worlds in each reader’s True Reads. It’s like what the Meta-verse wishes it could have been.
Please, someone, use this as a blueprint for a B&B idea.
I do love April 1. Please sign me up.
I don’t want this to be a joke!!
Do we get to eat the food?
@LML oh my gosh of course you get to eat the food. That’s why we put Shana in charge of it. The food will be glorious.
Sign me up, PLEASE!
Love!
Deeply upset this is only a prank. This is my ideal vacation-based reality show concept. All Hail Pudding!
Brilliant! I would so sign up for this.
Do you have a Horse Budget? Or is reading on horseback not sanctioned by your insurance? I promise not to jump the back gate.
I’m ready to sign up now! Add in a chocolate truffle bar, and I will have signed up already yesterday.
I can’t imagine a more perfect place to find my OTPR. I mean, my connection with other books is pretty strong, but I can honestly say that my favourite book is on this site.
I’ve been hurt by books in the past, but it’s time I cracked a spine and opened up to new experiences.
But frankly, I don’t think Pudding is here for the right reasons.