Candy Tan's Books
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Beyond Heaving BosomsBeyond Heaving Bosoms is a hilariously snarky but affectionate study of romance novels for the hardcore genre lover and those who are just curious.Read More
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Suite101.com, November 14, 2009
...tone and style of each line shines through in the blog posts. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books In 2005, Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell established Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: all of the romance, none of the bullshit. Tan and Wendell provide comprehensive albeit...
Sydney Morning Herald, October 9, 2009
...genre is almost like admitting you enjoy child porn.So thank Eros for two Americans, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, who dreamed up Mavis for their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels. It's an unashamed celebration of...
New Jersey Monthly, May 10, 2009
...of Montclair, co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches? Guide to Romance Novels (Fireside, 2000). She and Candy Tan also run the popular romance-industry website, smartbitchestrashybooks.com. Trashy? Perhaps. Popular? Definitely. In 2007,...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 9, 2009
...Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War and Terror.' Romance and mystery Beyond Heaving Bosoms By Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan Fireside $15 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon. $23.95 If your mother devours romance...
St. Petersburg Times, April 29, 2009
...find hilarious entertainment in Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. The authors, who blog at www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com, obviously adore romance novels, which are read by 1 in 5...
WebWire, April 14, 2009
...by Greg Cox, and Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. 'I'm so excited that Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan have taken an honest look at the Romance genre' says Abby Broberg, Editorial Director of...
NPR, April 11, 2009
...mind in a punishing embrace! Yes, dear readers, this gently reared young public radio host had just discovered .Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell blog about all things lurid, turgid and heaving. Their new book takes a loving and yes, sometimes bitchy look at...
NPR, April 11, 2009
...her mind in a punishing embrace! Yes, dear readers, this gently-reared young public radio host had just discovered .Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell blog about all things lurid, turgid, and heaving. Their new book takes a loving and yes, sometimes bitchy look...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, October 11, 2009
...to romance written by SB Sarah and SD Candy. So thank Eros for two Americans, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, who dreamed up Mavis for their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels. It’s an unashamed celebration of their...
Teach Me Tonight, September 16, 2009
...31-43. Modleski, Tania. "My Life as a Romance Reader." Paradoxa 3.1-2 (1997): 15-28. Wendell, Sarah, and Candy Tan. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels . New York: Fireside, 2009. The image was created by Egon B and I...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, September 2, 2009
...will beam power back to Earth. Sounds very SFF to me! Shannon Stacey responds to the article by Candy Tan at SmartBitches who was riffing off Meg Cabot’s hatred of the required reading list. Given the number of commenters at the Smart Bitches site who...
Casablanca Authors, June 16, 2009
...the romance fiction readership and marketplace--fascinating! www.rwanational.org Fabulous non-fic book about romance fiction! Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan's BEYOND HEAVING BOSOMS --you will laugh out loud and your bosom will heave. Smart, smart, smart of...
Feminist Review, June 9, 2009
...By Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan Simon & Schuster Romance is a huge market, the most popular kind of fiction—and one of the most maligned. In the introductory chapter of Beyond Heaving Bosoms , the...
RT Book Reviews magazine's MySpace Blog, May 6, 2009
...RT caught up with Sarah Wendell, one-half of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books duo along with Candy Tan, at a book signing on May 5, 2009, in Clifton, N.J. Sarah and the small, but enthusiastic group of fans spent nearly an hour discussing the importance of...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, April 20, 2009
...authors, and authors in between. Today’s first sale story comes from well known bloggers, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. Their nonfiction, women’s studies, literary criticism, comedy, technical manual, work of art can be found in some bookstores in...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, April 15, 2009
...Did you know that Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan wrote a book about romance? They did and it came out today. It’s called Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance . BooksonBoard has it 25% using...
WebWire | Recent Headlines, April 14, 2009
...by Greg Cox, and Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. "I'm so excited that Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan have taken an honest look at the Romance genre," says Abby Broberg, Editorial Director of...
Jaci Burton's Muse, April 14, 2009
...of many genres, successful at all. Excerpt and buy link here And the Smart Bitches, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, have finally released the long awaited Beyond Heaving Bosoms , a very irreverent and loving look at the romance industry. I can’t...
Largehearted Boy, April 12, 2009
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead T-shirt of the day: "MacGhosts" NPR's All Things Considered interviews book bloggers Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell. Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "shorties" posts. also at Largehearted Boy:...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, April 9, 2009
...by Lisa Kleypas. Contemporary recommended by Joonigrrl, Jane, Janet/Robin and JennieF. Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. A sharp and funny look at one of the billion dollar generating romance book recommended by Dr. Sarah and...
