From the “If I Had a Bodrillion Dollars and Free Healthcare” department comes my pondering of a “more better documentary” about romance – one that started at RT and kept going to RWA, The Romance Slam Jam, and some of the more awesome chapter conferences and reader events. Alas, my million has not rolled in so I’m left to dream.
But this month’s letter from RWA President Sherry Lewis reveals her year as “The Face of Romance” - a title that made her cringe, as she is not normally, as she puts it, a “bona fide introvert.” Lewis, who declines all interviews no matter how many times I say “Pbbbblease?” represented RWA at the Public Library Association’s National Conference with Allison Kelley and Stephani Fry (all of whom are very cool, says I) and her experience proves that there’s some genuinely active and eager people out there looking for romance to read (and not necessarily man titty to grope along with it):
A website that reviews romance novels from a couple of smart bitches who will always give it to you straight. No bullshit. No gushing--unless the author really deserves it.
My respect for Roger Ebert went off the charts with this one review. I don’t always agree with him, but he understood this story, IMO, and the emotional excess so much a part of the teenage years. We don’t need…
From Twilight Reviews
Thanks. First time I’ve ever managed to “win” one.
Cheques in the mail to the Cancer Society.
From Free EBook Alert!
I love Stephen and I giggled mightily when I saw that, but what just broke my brain into a bazillion pieces is the “he lives in my town so I probably shouldn’t say that out loud. I’ll see him at…
I have had a little crush on Roger Ebert for a long time. He’s one of the few reviewers published widely who is usually able to judge a movie based on appropriate criteria—he takes each one on its own terms,…
From Twilight Reviews
I got one! Yay for freeebooks, and for donations to the ABCF. I will read book over the weekend; if I enjoy it, I will buy print copies for a couple of people and spread the joy (and contribute to…
From Free EBook Alert!
