I’ve had the immense pleasure (heh) of putting together part six of our SBTB Gift Guide! Be warned that this post is probably NSFW, as it includes sex toys (both for couples or for solo use) and some recommended reading material. If you want to catch up with previous parts of the 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, there are bookish gift ideas, items for comfort and self-care, things for all your crafty friends and family, an … Continue reading 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, Part 6: Sexxxytimes →
It’s time for another edition of our Smart Bitches Gift Guide. In Part 1, I highlighted bookish things, and in Part 2, I focused on comfort and self-care. In Part 3, I featured crafty things, and in Part 4, I showcased some cool products from small businesses that had been sent to me for evaluation. (I am still loving the deVine lip shimmers, and wear them daily.) This week: things for the home, including kitchen, bedroom, … Continue reading SBTB Gift Guide Part 5: Home and Happiness →
After doing the Gift Guides here for a few years, it seems I’ve landed on the radar of some publicity companies representing small business. This year, I was contacted about sampling products for the gift guide – which is pretty cool! The products range from beauty accessories to eyeglass frames, and when I sampled something I thought you’d like, I made a note of it. Ready? Here we go! deVine Beauty I was sent a sampler … Continue reading 2016 SBTB Guide Guide, Part 4: An Assortment of Uniqueness →
It’s time for another edition of our Smart Bitches Gift Guide. In Part 1, I highlighted bookish things, and in Part 2, I focused on comfort and self-care. This week, crafty business. Creating things, and repetitive actions like knitting or crocheting, are soothing, and I know there are many knitters, crocheters, crafters, artists, and otherwise creative folks among the Bitchery. So this edition of the Gift Guide is all for you. Ready? Let’s go! If you’ve … Continue reading 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, Part 3: Crafty Business →
Ready for more gifty ideas for all the people you like best, most especially yourself? Let’s do this! (Seriously, I love doing the gift guide – thank you for being as into it as I am!) This week: comfort and joy through things that smell good, feel good, and make you smile! Amanda would like y’all to know that this is her favorite body wash: Not Soap Radio’s Joy Inducing Lemon + Sugar bubbles for bath … Continue reading 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, Part 2: Comfort Through Scents, Lights, and Smiles →
Y’all, we have been working on the Smart Bitches Gift Guide all year long. We have a Slack channel devoted just to gift ideas, and it is busy because everyone on the internet is creative and brilliant, and all the awesome gives me so much joy, I can’t even. Only odding is possible. I can hear you snarling or maybe squeaking that it’s only October 26! Halloween hasn’t happened yet! I know. It’s true. It’s a … Continue reading 2016 SBTB Gift Guide, Part 1: All Things Bookish and Wonderful →
Welcome to the Smart Bitches Business Update, our monthly feature wherein I talk about the site, the community within it, and what’s going on in the business side of things. It’s October, which means it’s a short hop from all pumpkin spice everything to all tinsel holiday everything. It also means that I’m looking at fourth quarter here, and planning for 2017, too. I’ve half-joked that the mission of the site is to connect romance … Continue reading Smart Bitches Business Update: October 2016 →
NB: Tanvee sent me this essay because, as she put it, she “wrote a sort of rambling piece on why I love romance novels and how they help me feel more connected to my feminism, and I would love to share it,” and would I be interested? HECK YES I AM INTERESTED. I love the ways in which romance shapes us as readers and as women, and how individual books can have a significant and … Continue reading Guest Post: A Reader’s Feminist & Her Favorite Romances →
The title card is a map of Culloden Moor, and the toys (action figures?) that army dudes play with when planning out their wars. Thing Two, with his jaunty eyepatch rides with Claire and Jamie and the rest into a camp. Fergus, helping the audience along, asks where they are. Just outside Inverness, Claire tells him. Fergus asks if it’s good, and Murtagh tells him that they’ll be able to rest. Fergus says that Murtagh … Continue reading Outlander 2.12: “The Hail Mary” →
Previously: the dinner party of the year. Over the title card, we have a gorgeous dappled grey house being tacked up – a groom puts saddlecloth on the horse’s back, but doesn’t pull the reins out from under it, and that’s bad form. You work for the King, for fuck’s sake. Shape up. Post dinner party – the guest have left, and the servants are cleaning up the debris and putting out the candles rather … Continue reading Outlander 2.05: “Untimely Resurrection” →
Our feet are swollen, our luggage is probably too heavy, and we’re all physically exhausted with very happy, relaxed brains. RT 2016 is coming to a close. We’ve recorded a podcast as we did last year, and it’ll be up next week (I hope). But before that, here are some highlights! First, we met SO MANY people who said they read the site every day, listen to the podcast every week, and had to tell us … Continue reading RT 2016 in Words and Pictures →
