Since the new Disqus was making so many of us unhappy, it's been removed. Bye! Currently deployed for your commenting and conversationing pleasure is the standard comments that come with Expression Engine, the CMS that powers the Bitchery HQ. There's a captcha, and there's an RSS feed for following a comment thread if you'd like. There is numbered comments, non-nested, as per many requests. And there's commenting without up or downvoting. Unfortunately, I can't set … Continue reading Everything Old is New Again in the Comments→
This video was sent to me ages ago, and of course I can't find the original email. If it was you, thank you, and thank you again. You've probably heard the Macklemore song “Thrift Shop,” but I love this song eleventy times more. Link! I hope your weekend is filled with all the people you love.
Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep is book 1 in her Mythos Academy series. It's currently on sale for $2.99 digitally. This book was a Sizzling Book Club Pick in August 2011 – I really liked the mixture and layering of different mythologies, and I liked Gwen as a narrator. The series is now five books long – and book 5 comes out this summer. Note: there is also a bundle of the first three … Continue reading Books on Sale: YA Paranormal from Jennifer Estep and Angie Sage→
Were you a Sunfire romance reader? I totally was. And even after I cracked the code of the cover art – whomever the heroine was pictured with in the cover art was usually NOT the dude she ended up with – I still read them. I loved Caroline, and read that book so many times I looked up the author, which led me to one of my msot favorite YA reads ever, The Girl with the Silver … Continue reading Sunfire Romances and Scholarly Projects→
At 1am Eastern, midnight Central, the voting began! Are you ready?! Round one is a big one, too, with Cecilia Grant's A Lady Awakened facing Courtney Milan's The Duchess War, and The Fault in our Stars by John Green going up against Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry. And Unspoken and A Notorious Countess Confesses and… I have to go lie down now. Oy. Then, at 1pm Eastern, noon Central, the next set of polls go up! More voting! More Tweeting! … Continue reading It’s DABWAHA Voting Time!→
RECOMMENDED. Something About You is $1.99. This book was featured in our Save the Contemporary campaign when it came out. Heck, it WON the DABWAHA in 2011. If you like contemporary romance, you'll probably like this. James writes very smart characters who don't forget how to do their jobs when their pants become slightly horny, and her stories have emotional and sexual tension to spare. Just go buy it. It's $2! For one week only! … Continue reading Books on Sale: One-Week Only Julie James Discount, and More!→
The Magic Mirror is a lovely, unusual romance loosely based on the fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. It is creative, tender, and lyrical. What it lacks in grand passion it makes up for in the maturity displayed by its characters. Magic Mirror deals with several stories that overlap. In one, Gretchen, a dwarf with average-sized parents, hears a story of a farm where several dwarfs live and work together. Tired of the … Continue reading The Magic Mirror and the Seventh Dwarf by Tia Nevitt→
Marked is book 1 in Elisabeth Naughton's Eternal Guardians series. It's on sale for .99c digitally. THERON – Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly. He's the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld. From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn't exist in real life–silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and … Continue reading Books on Sale: Naughton, Mancusi, Brown, and Gandhi→
We start by taking a look at the reader nominations while they were still in the process of being decided, and we talk about the DAWBWAHA tournament and how it works. Then we answer a reader letter about erotic romance polyamory and triad romances. Here are the books we talk about in this episode: Our music in each episode is provided by Sassy Outwater. This podcast features a song by Three Mile Stone titled … Continue reading 44. More on the DABWAHA, Plus Reader Questions about Triad Erotic Romances→
Several books nominated for the DABWAHA are on sale, or free, which is awesome, because reading! Kensington has dropped the price on Laura Florand's The Chocolate Thief, nominated for the DABWAHA in the Contemporary Romance category. The price is $3.99, or $3.49 if you're Amazon. Breathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. For American Cade Corey, it's a dream come true, if only she can get one … Continue reading DABWAHA Books on Sale, and DABWAHA Fun!→
I started reading this because when I posted the $1.99 sale alert, Samalamadingdong, a reader, said that this was one of her favorite Balogh novels. I love me some historicals so off I went to read it. I thought to myself, while I was reading the opening chapters, “Well, this isn't exactly my cup of tea, there's a lot of infodumpery and some of these characters talk in exposition and that's too bad. I'll give … Continue reading Irresistible by Mary Balogh→
