It’s time! And IT IS ON. Dear Author and the Smart Bitches present the DA BWAHA Tournament. We have fielded a slate of 64 “best” books in 8 different categories: Young Adult Paranormal Erotica/Erotic Romance GLBT Historical Contemporary Novel With Romantic Elements Category Today through Wednesday 7 am EST, you are allowed to fill out your bracket. The bracket is found here. On Wednesday, you’ll begin to … Continue reading 64 Books Enter. One Leaves. Much Arguing In Between.→
It’s March Madness time which means brackets, spoilers, and, of course, romance books! Admittedly, the last element of the list is a rarely known component of March Madness, one that is often lost amongst the basketball hoopla. Which is so wrong, we will do all kinds of crazy shit to make it right. We thought it was time to shine a light on the major, but forgotten, player. This year, Dear Author and the Smart … Continue reading Announcing: The DA BWAHA AWARD→
We’ve tallied all the votes (and DAMN were there a lot of votes!) and we are happy to announce the winners of the First Annual Smart Bitches Trashy Books Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors! I’d like to say, there were a LOT of close categories, so when you think to yourself, if you are not a winner this year, that it was an honor to be nominated, chances are you also almost kicked the … Continue reading And Now, Your SBTB BWAHA Winners→
We have calculated the votes and assembled the slate of nominees, so here we go: voting will now commence for the first annual BWAHA Awards – Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors. We had so many votes for Paranormal that we had to split the category – so now we have ‘Best Paranormal: Fantasy/SF/Other Worlds Romance,’ and ‘Best Paranormal: Vampires, Werewolves, and the Supernatural.’ Further, in categories where we had many submissions, we had to … Continue reading And the Nominees Are…→
In our discussion of the RITA nominations, many a Bitchery member remarked on the lack of award category for erotica, and the difficulty of creating such an award that accurately judges erotica, romantica, and the genre as a whole. Perhaps that difficulty might come as much from RWA’s documented hesitancy to welcome erotica alonside its other genres, but it is certainly a difficult category to judge against the traditional structure of romance – as erotica … Continue reading Smart Bitch Book Award→
