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Beyond Heaving Bosoms is now available in Trade Paperback
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Beyond Heaving Bosoms will be released on April 14, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Apr 14, 2009
Beyond Heaving Bosoms is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 14, 2009
Beyond Heaving Bosoms will be released on April 14, 2009 in eBook
Apr 14, 2009
Beyond Heaving Bosoms is now available in eBook
Apr 14, 2009
Beyond Heaving Bosoms is now available in eBook
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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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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.
Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
A. Saying "Yes" when I ought to say "No thank you."
Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. The ability to function on 4 hours sleep.
Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
A. Awesome. Dude. Indefatigable. Concupiscent. Feh.
Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
A. Rump Shaker. Baby Got Back. MacArthur Park. Lost in Your Eyes. Ice Ice Baby. Honorable Mention: Wind Beneath My Wings. (Thanks Katiebabs!)
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Sydney Morning Herald, October 9, 2009
...you enjoy the 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...
New York Times, October 6, 2009
...the dominant player in the field.) Kate Duffy was a name; she was a force in the genre, Sarah Wendell, a founder of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, a Web site about romance novels, said in an interview on Wednesday. On the site last week, Ms. Wendell...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2009
...digital publishers operating now. It's a combination of their quality storytelling, good editing, good business sense,' says Sarah Wendell, who co-writes the Trashy Books blog. 'Erotic romance is a way of dealing with the oversexualized image of women in...
Examiner.com, July 4, 2009
...digital publishers operating now. It's a combination of their quality storytelling, good editing, good business sense,' says Sarah Wendell, who co-writes the Trashy Books blog and is co-author of 'Beyond Heaving Bosoms,' a new romance novel guidebook...
Washington Post, June 27, 2009
...digital publishers operating now. It's a combination of their quality storytelling, good editing, good business sense,' says Sarah Wendell, who co-writes the Trashy Books blog and is co-author of 'Beyond Heaving Bosoms,' a new romance novel guidebook...
Washington Post, June 27, 2009
...digital publishers operating now. It's a combination of their quality storytelling, good editing, good business sense,' says Sarah Wendell, who co-writes the Trashy Books blog and is co-author of 'Beyond Heaving Bosoms,' a new romance novel guidebook...
Washington Post, June 26, 2009
...digital publishers operating now. It's a combination of their quality storytelling, good editing, good business sense,' says Sarah Wendell, who co-writes the Trashy Books blog and is co-author of 'Beyond Heaving Bosoms,' a new romance novel guidebook...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 13, 2009
...t stop or slow piracy anyway,? said James. Later on a panel devoted to What Consumers Want, blogger Sarah Wendell of the Smart Bitches Trashy Novels blog (9 million pages views in April), a champion of romance fiction, gave a witty presentation on...
New Jersey Monthly, May 10, 2009
...Writers of America has about 250 members. ?They have one of the must-attend conferences in the RWA,? says Sarah Wendell of Montclair, co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches? Guide to Romance Novels (Fireside, 2000). She and Candy Tan...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 9, 2009
...make up 'Long 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...
St. Petersburg Times, April 29, 2009
...novels, she might 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...
WebWire, April 14, 2009
...of the Lycans 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...
NPR, April 11, 2009
...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 the world...
NPR, April 11, 2009
...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 the...
Philly.com, February 12, 2009
...writing lead lives as full as their characters'. 'They are amazingly intelligent women who are exceptionally talented,' says Sarah Wendell, coauthor of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels (Fireside, April 2009, $15) and a...
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2009
...writing lead lives as full as their characters'. 'They are amazingly intelligent women who are exceptionally talented,' says Sarah Wendell, coauthor of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels (Fireside, April 2009, $15) and a...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, October 6, 2009
...reading. Speakers will include Hugh McGuire, Neelan Choksi, Trip Adler, Michael Tamblyn, Jane Little, Malle Vallik, Angela James, Sarah Wendell, Matthew Bernius. The cost is $149, but TOC alumni receive a 50% discount and if you attend you’ll get a...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, September 18, 2009
...O’Reilly will hold an on-line conference on ebooks. Costing $149, with discounts available, the conference will include Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Matthew Bernius Open Publishing Lab, Hugh McGuire of LivriVox, Neelan Choski of Lexcycle and Trip...
Casablanca Authors, June 16, 2009
...independent survey on 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....
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...
The Galaxy Express, June 1, 2009
...answer is not what you think. In the Ghetto Groove Bitches and Bosoms, Oh Boy! Diana Rowland interviews Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches at The Magic District. They discuss the ghettoization of romance—and SF sure can empathize with that, right?!...
Romantic Times BOOKreviews, May 8, 2009
...Smart Bitch Sarah Wendell continued on her book tour Wednesday night, May 6, 2009. This time she was reading at Barnes and Noble on 6th Ave. in NYC. As always, she was entertaining...
RT Book Reviews magazine's MySpace Blog, May 8, 2009
...Smart Bitch Sarah Wendell continued on her book tour Wednesday night, May 6, 2009. This time she was reading at Barnes and Noble on 6th Ave. in NYC. As always, she was entertaining...
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...
LUSTY LADY, April 20, 2009
...there aren't really "rows"): Jenny Block, Gideon Levy, Nicolette Dixon, Sinclair Sexsmith, Megan Hart, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Sarah Wendell, Emily Farris photo by Stacie Joy Virgin Night at In The Flesh Reading Series was packed - standing room only!...
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...
WebWire | Recent Headlines, April 14, 2009
...of the Lycans 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,...
Jaci Burton's Muse, April 14, 2009
...incredibly talented writer 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...
Largehearted Boy, April 12, 2009
...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: Online "best of 2008" music...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, April 9, 2009
...Smooth Talking Stranger 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...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, April 9, 2009
...Smooth Talking Stranger 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...
RT Book Reviews magazine's MySpace Blog, April 8, 2009
...up with founders Hope Tarr, Maya Rodale, Leanna Hieber, and Ron Hogan from Beatrice.com, as well as Sarah Wendell from SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com and, of course, Tony... continue reading: RT Book Reviews blog Let us know what you think at the end of the...
Romantic Times BOOKreviews, April 7, 2009
...up with founders Hope Tarr, Maya Rodale, Leanna Hieber, and Ron Hogan from Beatrice.com , as well as Sarah Wendell from SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com and, of course, Tony. If you've never been to Madame X, the decor is wonderfully romantic, complete with...
RT Book Reviews magazine's MySpace Blog, April 6, 2009
...place to be tonight, April 6! Authors Alisa Kwitney and Maya Rodale will be the featured readers. Sarah Wendell , hilarious blogger and author of BEYOND HEAVING BOSOMS (The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels) will be the guest host. Lady Jane's...
recent posts - blip.tv (beta), April 4, 2009
...Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches Trashy Books talks about over used phrases in romance books. Jaunty feathers anyone?...
Booksquare, February 10, 2009
...conference: Smart Women Read eBooks , featuring the fabulous Angela James from Samhain Publishing , Malle Vallik of Harlequin , and Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books . I’m just going to sit back and let them roll. (Before we get into the...
Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News,, January 12, 2009
...York in February. She’s and a few other female ebook reading champs (Malle Vallik of Harlequin Digital , Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books , and Angela James of Samhain Publishing) are going to be telling this mostly male crowd why women...
