ManTittyHallofFame,Volume1

by SB Sarah Monday, November 07, 2005 at 05:50 AM

Have mercy, y’all. I’m not in labor yet but I totally busted my large gut at the reader-submitted covers. So today we present the Man Titty Hall of Fame, Volume 1. 

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ASmartBitchRumination

by SB Sarah Monday, November 07, 2005 at 05:03 AM

Which is longer, the Gabaldon Outlander series, or my pregnancy? Discuss!  Because I am stillllllll pregnant! 

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CoronationCeremonyforLaurie!

by Candy Friday, November 04, 2005 at 06:57 PM

Laurie, by the grace of Elisabeth and Google, managed to successfully guess the answers to this week’s Lonely Heart challenge. Kneel, Laurie, for we Smart Bitches dub thee:

Go forth and use your newly-bestowed powers for good!

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Ohman,thisisaHARDone,suckas!

by Candy Friday, November 04, 2005 at 12:53 PM

All this talk about Harlequin Presents made me nostalgic for all those awful Mills & Boon novels my sister collected back in the day. So this personal ad is going to be more obscure than most, because it’s a Mills & Boon/Harlequin Presents from the early 80s. Good luck guessing the author, the title and the hero’s name. Mwahahahaha.

If you think Candy naming her cat Hitler was perverse, wait till you check out my cat’s name

SWM, reclusive singer/songwriter, looking for innocent virgin to shout at and about whom I can make horrible assumptions. Spineless daddy’s girls who are about to be forced into a loveless marriage a bonus. Oh, and watch out for my cat. He’s one mean sumbitch, and I gave him a totally bitchin’ name so the author can give the book a totally bitchin’ title.

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Bringsnewmeaningtotheword“HotRod!”

by SB Sarah Thursday, November 03, 2005 at 03:47 PM

Thanks to brilliant reader Michelle, I am now dumbfounded and curious about the marketing decisions of major romance brands.

Harlequin will be offering NASCAR themed and branded romances:

NASCAR™ claims 75 million fans and says 30 million of them are women.

“NASCAR™ has one of the largest and most loyal bases of female fans of any sport in the United States and we are delighted to publish novels that will appeal specifically to them,” Harlequin CEO Donna Hayes said.

Now, NASCAR™ in and of itself is fascinating. Born in the deep South (Darlington, SC, for example, hosted the first “superspeedway” before Daytona built their speedway, though the racing itself started in North Carolina way back in the 40’s) it is a mix of down-home activities like watching car racing and tailgating, only with seriously brilliant participants. The men and women of the pit crews? Multiple engineering degrees. You gotta have some seriously mathematical smarts to be a NASCAR™ crew member - and yet many of them are life-long racing fans from small rural areas who had big brains and a desire to get advanced engineering and science degrees. So the potential for some fascinating heroes is definitely there, along with the opportunity for writers to create protagonists that break some of the rural Southern stereotypes.

But as for the Harlequin connection, are female NASCAR™ fans really an untapped demographic of romance readers? Is this a savvy move on their part or is it destined to be a big boo-boo in the history of romance? And, most importantly, is there going to be a RITA category for Best NASCAR™ romance?

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