Month: June 2011
Review: Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels
Welcoming back Sarah Wendell, aka Smart Bitch Sarah to the blog today. She was co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms, and my go-to person for two articles I wrote about romance writers. As her website says, she is “Man Titty Media Pundit.”
Her new book, Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels, comes out in October. If you haven’t checked out her site, please do. It is everything you want a website to be: funny (very funny), informative, and opinionated.
Her topic is romance novels. As I am a defender of the real Jersey Shore, she is a defender of a genre that generates over $10 billion a year. Still, despite romances being one of the most if not the most profitable segment of a declining book industry, romance writers and readers are easy targets.
Want examples? This, this or this will do.
Dumb. Epically stupid. To suggest that women who read romances are addicted to porn is idiotic. Would you say your grandfather is addicted to mystery because he reads the new James Patterson book as soon as it comes […]