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The Rec League: Casual, Playful BDSM

This Rec League was sent in by SA: I come again with a very specific request: do you have any recommendations for romances with a more casual attitude to BDSM? By which I mean, I would like to read a story where the bondage and such is literally just part of having good fun sex and not used to characterize anyone as having a certain personality type (the dominant who always seeks control, the submissive … Continue reading The Rec League: Casual, Playful BDSM

Links: Dolly, Barbara, & More

An illustrated image of a desk space with a computer, stack of books, reading glasses, and a mug.

Welcome back! I’ve made it back from my vacation with a souvenir sickness. Hooray! That’s what I get for traveling around the start of the school year and to Disney no less. I’ve also heard people talking about having the flu already and they haven’t even had a chance to get their seasonal flu shot. I also feel like I’m snowballing into “so many things left to get done with so little time.” Such is … Continue reading Links: Dolly, Barbara, & More

Help A Bitch Out

HaBO: Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Part Deux

This HaBO comes from Lindsay, who wants to find this romance: This is an historical (probably written in the early 2000s or 2010s), and the protagonists have either a marriage of convenience or they marry young and some sort of Big Misunderstanding has the hero leaving shortly after the wedding night and going off to war. He returns from war to find that the heroine is thriving without him. As he proceeds to grovel, he … Continue reading HaBO: Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Part Deux

Cover Snark: Sound the Alarms for a Full Back Tattoo

Simon by V.A. Dold. A blond man is facing away from us in a pair of light wash, low rise jeans. His hands are on his head. The background is of an estate surrounded by trees, but everything has a royal blue filter. The man has a giant wolf head tattooed on his back and the wolf has light blue eyes.

Welcome back to Cover Snark! From Kelly: Where did his fingers go? Also their eyebrows are distractingly the exact same color as their hair. Sarah: I maintain that faces and necks are hard to draw. Elyse: She looks like when my sister would pull off my Barbie’s head and I’d stick it back on but the neck would disappear. Sarah: It’s never the same, is it? Like when you wash a Barbie’s hair. It never … Continue reading Cover Snark: Sound the Alarms for a Full Back Tattoo

Get Rec’d with Amanda – Volume 123

Welcome back! We have an all fiction edition with mainly horror and thriller recommendations. ‘Tis the season! Any recommendations you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!

Sunday Sale Digest!

Smart Bitches in a blue typewriter font, and After Dark lit up like hot pink neon

This piece of literary mayhem is exclusive to Smart Bitches After Dark, but fret not. If you’d like to join, we’d love to have you! Have a look at our membership options, and come join the fun! If you want to have a little extra fun, be a little more yourself, and be part of keeping the site open for everyone in the future, we can’t wait to see you in our new subscription-based section … Continue reading Sunday Sale Digest!

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