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Host:  Sarah Wendell. 
Everything I Wanted to Know About Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels  I Learned by Asking Sarah Wendell

Sarah will discuss the book, what she learned about writing it, what she learned from the contributors, what tips she has for writing, blogging, and social media -- and answer questions about anything.

WHEN:    Oct 12, 2011 9:00 PM EST - Oct 12, 2011 10:00 PM EST

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Sarah Wendell is co-author of the book, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels, and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books.com, one of the most popular blogs examining romance fiction. The site specializes in reviewing romance novels, pondering the history and future of the genre in digital form and in print, and bemoaning the enormous prevalence of bodacious pectorals adorning male cover models. 

In October 2011, Sarah’s next book, Everything I Know About Love, I Learned From Romance Novels, will be published by Sourcebooks. Sarah has been quoted in People Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, USA Today, The New York Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Metro: New York, and Publishers Weekly. Sarah can be found at smartbitchestrashybooks.com, or via Twitter at @smartbitches.


EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE, I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS 



Take a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces of clothing, and what do you have? A romance novel. What else? Enough lessons about life, love, and everything in between to help you with your own happily-ever-after.

Lessons like...

Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending 

Learning to tell the prince from the frog 

Real-life romance is still alive and kicking 

No matter how bad it is, at least you haven’t been kidnapped by a Scottish duke (probably)

Straight from the heart of influential romance blogger Sarah Wendell, this inventive gift book provides the best wisdom about love that the romance genre has to offer. Laced with signature witty commentary and peppered with thoughts from bestselling romance authors (Nora Roberts, Jennifer Crusie, Debbie Macomber, Eloisa James, Robyn Carr, and lots more) and avid readers, these pages will reveal what every romance reader already knows: while romances are certainly steamy, they have more to offer than just a sexy hero. In fact, they might have more to say about love than we give them credit for. Sarah Wendell is cofounder of one of the top romance blogs, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com.


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