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Yes, you can has contest!
The deadline for our latest contest, LOLurve™, is midnight tonight, 1 August 2007, Pacific Time, so please, email your submissions to and - fabulous letters of acceptance and rejection will be posted tomorrow. Because they are teh funney like damn.




by SB Sarah • Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Candy and I, after breaking several ligaments laughing at the Achewood Comic we linked to, realized: Smart Bitch Contest Ahoy!
Your mission: choose or craft an LOLCat of your very own, and use it as the cover of your newest romance novel. THEN, write an editor’s letter, either accepting or rejecting your awesomeness, to go along with it.
Confused? Here are examples:
Our proposed cover art:
Source: I Can Has Cheezburger?
Sample Acceptance Letter:
Ms. SaraBeth Taegan-Brown
123 Bitchery Way
Funkytown, PA 15222
Dear Ms. Taegan-Brown
We here at Kantsingtownne were thrilled to the soles of our Blahniks to read your proposal for “How Big Wuz It Agn?” Certainly the question of size and girth of the amply-endowed hero will never be answered satisfactorily, and having your heroine examine the hero’s masterful wang by saying, “OMGLOLWTF?” was a stroke of comedic brilliance - to say nothing of referring to a condom as a “bukkit.” No wonder they never had one handy!
We are certain the LOLurve™ Cat Romance will be a huge hit worldwide, and are eager to launch this line of series romances aimed at the erudite, intellectual reader with ample disposable income. We adore your suggestion for product placement, as well, and are certain we can reach an agreement as to how to compensate you for your brilliance.
We are prepared to offer you a $1.9 million advance for a 200pp manuscript. Of course this offer comes with an unlimited offer of time aboard our private yacht, use of the corporate jet, and car service vouchers for your ground transport needs.
Please forward your completed manuscript to our North Versailles address by Friday.
Yours, etc.
Stamphanie Cedrickson
Series Development & Acquisitions
Ms. Honoria Clitorrh
18369 Lovemuffin Ave.
Beaverton, OR 97008
Dear Ms. Clitorrh,
Thank you very much for submitting MY GIANT WANGZ LET ME SHOW YOU THEM, but I must regretfully inform you that LovePocket Books will have to pass on it.
But even if we are passing on this title, I have to say there are many things you did right with this manuscript. For instance, we greatly enjoyed the way you gave the penises in this book a life of their own. Prehensile genitalia have been a staple of erotic shapeshifter romance for quite some time now, but allowing those penises to talk was truly a master stroke. The part in which Ardeur Cheezburger’s penis cries out “Miss mah bukkit!” touched us profoundly, for example--almost as profoundly as that penis later touches the heroine. We also greatly admired the innovation of having the point-of-view switching between third and second person, though we recommend using this in moderation--having the switch happen three times in the same chapter without warning resulted in a rather jarring read.
Ultimately, however, we didn’t believe that your book was quite the right fit for our house. Our lines of romances tend towards the sweeter end of the spectrum--amnesiac secret babies, virgin desert sheikhs, marriages of convenience between Navy SEALs, etc. Your novel, with its polyamory, sentient penises, inter-species sex and (to be frank) somewhat puzzling fetish with cheeseburgers doesn’t quite belong in our line-up. We do wish you the best of luck in finding a good home for MY GIANT WANGZ LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
Regards,
Emmaline Duquesne
Associate Editor
LovePocket Books
Rules-Type Blather!
1. E-mail your submissions to and .
2. Only one submission per person.
3. Deadline: You have until midnight Pacific Time on August 1 to submit your brilliance to us.
4. Entries will be posted on August 2. You will be asked to e-mail your votes to us. One vote per person, and voting ends on midnight, Pacific Time, August 4th. Winner will be announced on Monday, August 6.
5. Remember to attach or link to your cover art!
Prizes!
The winner shall receive A TOTALLY AWESOME PACKAGE of an unabridged audio CD set of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Match Me If You Can, a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate, and a Smart Bitch Title™.










by SB Sarah • Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 05:54 AM
In order to at least attempt to restore any credibility I might have in the “*squee* I LOVE YA” department, I’m going to review a Sweet Valley High novel. Specifically, the one that was such a tease that it drove me towards romance for more direct sexual explanation: Dear Sister book 7, where Elizabeth gets in a motorcycle accident, and is in a coma for all of, I think, 2 chapters. Not that the book’s cover copy led you to believe that. The copy and blurbs make it sound like she’s going to linger for pages.
And yes, this is also the book wherein Bruce Patman puts his hand on Elizabeth’s breast - and whoa, nelly. That’s about as far as anyone got in Sweet Valley, I think.
The best part: I bought it used for .01, though I did have to pay for shipping.
The next best part? A quiz! With prizes! I have a truckload of signed books, and shall send you two for your reading pleasure, should you be able to accurately guess the following questions:
1. How long will it take SB Sarah to read this book?
2. How many pages will be dog-eared as a marker for “This page contains outrageous badness and should be referenced in review?”
3. What grade will she ultimately assign the book?
Put your guesses in the comments, and I shall post the answers in my review. She or he who guesses most accurately will get 2 signed books of romance content to add to their library.





by SB Sarah • Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Marta Acosta asked Candy and me to judge her Book Trailer Contest - and here we are offering our cranky opinion alongside Michael Gough, a VP from Adobe, Ron and Sarah from GalleyCat, and the Bookseller Chick. Wow. We’ll have to be somewhat respectable, I’m guessing. Or not!
But the prize kicks ass - First Prize gets Adobe Creative Design Suite 3. That’s almost as Hofftastic as a Hoffobiography, isn’t it? So check it out and enter your fantastic finest book trailer. And if you do one for the Hoffobiography, I can’t promise to give you extra points but I can promise I will totally laugh my ass off.
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by SB Sarah • Tuesday, July 03, 2007 at 09:34 AM
I will say this: Y’all know how to hassle the Hoff like none other. I saw links coming in from all over the wild, wooly internet, so it seems the LOLHoff was a hit beyond our hot pink romance-focused walls. Personally speaking, I’d read the comment thread and look at the new Hoffs and start to wheeze. Well played, bitchery, well played!
And now, the winners! Please , oh winners below, with your email addresses AND mailing addresses so that the Hofftastic Wonderment can be yours.
And for the person who won two prizes: I will totally send you two Hoffobiographies. Spread the Hoffalicious love, please!
The winner of Third Place, receiving a Hoff Plane and a Hoffobiography:
A tie!
MamaNice:
and Amy “Fuckheady Bitchipants” E:
The winner of second place, receiving a Hoffobiography and a $10 Amazon Gift Certificate:
A THREE WAY TIE (now THAT is Kinky!)
rebyj:
Mariskunk:
And Dragonpaws:
*drumroll please*
And the winner of first prize, a $25 gift certificate to Amazon, and a Hoffobiography:
Dragonpaws!




