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 Checking In With Y’all
This trip report is from Crystal Anne! Crystal Anne with An E comes to us from a sunny clime, but prefers to remain a pale indoor cat. She enjoys reading, cross-stitching something nerdy, going to see live music, and playing video games. She works as an autism consultant by day, got a degree in information science for fun, and currently serves on her local library advisory board, which she’s written about for SBTB. … I’ve … Continue reading Bookstore Trip Report: Bookish Boutique, Panama City, FL
Web cams aren’t technically videos so much as they are live streams, but I love them and wanted to share a few of my favorites. Also: did you know the first live stream cam was about coffee? The first webcam was the Trojan Room coffee pot at the University of Cambridge computer lab in the UK, and was created in 1991. 1991! The camera was set up purely to monitor the amount inside the coffee … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Visiting the Animals
We’re back in the time machine, heading back to December 2012 to see what new books were reviewed in Romantic Times magazine. We’ve got “multicultural” books, beefy paragraphs, big thorns, Schroedinger’s baby, and “charming vulgar nonsense.” Plus, we ask a very important question: if you were suddenly the heroine of an Inspirational romance, how would you know? TW/CW for the erotica section at the end. It was a time, y’all. If you want to watch … Continue reading 718. RT Rewind: December 2012 Reviews
So, wanna hear something a little embarrassing? I have been Chroniquelly Onlinne since forever, but there were some mysteries that to me seemed like magic. Like Photoshop. To be honest, Photoshop remains a bit of a mystery to me, and the skills I do have with it probably amount to .00001% of its capabilities. So when I first saw this video ages and ages ago (2001??! 25 years?) I could not believe how road signs … Continue reading Friday Videos Say Make Your Time
Nalini Singh is back to talk about Archangel’s Eternity, which I have been calling “Archangel’s Finale.” We’ve got questions from readers and listeners, and some behind the scenes details about how Nalini organizes the massive worlds she’s built in her series. Plus she teases some major surprises for the next Psy-Changeling book, and what she’s working on right now. You can find the video of this episode on our YouTube channel if you’d like to … Continue reading 717. Archangel’s Finale with Nalini Singh
My experience with The Bachelor franchise is as follows: I edit the recaps from Elyse, which she’s been faithfully recording since 2017. That’s it. Now, I have watched two (2) episodes to fill in for Elyse, prompting the following questions: Why are they four hours long? Why are they on two subsequent nights sometimes? Why on sequential nights or on four hour nights are they stretching out TWENTY FIVE TOTAL MINUTES OF FOOTAGE into an … Continue reading Here For All the Reasons: Why We Love the Bachelor, edited by Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais
Amanda and I have discussed many times on the RT Rewind podcast episodes that reviewing a book that’s deep into an existing series is a fraught proposition. The potential for spoilers is significant, and the question of audience can be a puzzler, too. Am I writing for new readers who might enter the series with this book (TL;DR, don’t do that, you deserve the whole Murderbot series!) or am I addressing folks who already love … Continue reading Platform Decay by Martha Wells
Programming note: this week’s episode is dropping on 30 April 2026. Smart Bitches Trashy Books, LLC, is withdrawing our labor on May 1, 2026, alongside other companies, school districts, and activists as part of the May Day Nationwide Day of Collective Action. For more information, visit MayDayStrong.org. Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais are the editors of a new and excellent anthology called Here for All The Reasons: Why We Watch the Bachelor. The … Continue reading 716. Here for All the Reasons: Bachelor Critique With Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais
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 A Fun and Silly Question About Worms!
