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I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
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If you attended or read RT, you know Heather Graham. Every time Amanda and I recap an issue of Romantic Times, Heather is in it. 

In this clip: when Heather met Kathryn Falk at the beginning of Romantic Times. 

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧🎙️ https://f.mtr.cool/mgxnrylukh
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Today my guest is author Lux Raven, and we are discussing disability in romance, and living with invisible disabilities.

Are you ready for your new favorite character type description?

I hope so!

Listen here, or wherever you get your nifty podcasts!
bit.ly/690Disabilit...
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Our suggestions so far:

Yakity Sax
Tubthumping
Henry VIII
A choir singing all verses of 99 bottles of beer on the wall
The Vengabus.
A very pixely graphic of words on a blurry screen that says ask not for whom the vengabus is coming. It is coming for thee
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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How about @rosiedanan.bsky.social and Karla Nikole?
Fan Service by Rosie Danan and Lore & Lust by Karla.Nikole
September 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Plus Suzanne Young, @katchowrites.bsky.social , Renee Ahdieh, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social

What's your pick?
Suzanne Young's In Nightfall, Wicked Fox by Kat Cho, The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh, and Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I've got jokes AND I've got recs!

@stephanieburgis.bsky.social , @rebeccayarros.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social and Ali Hazelwood, of course.
Bride by Ali Hazelwood, Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis, and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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And, look, the graphic on the article is great.

But this is mine, because graphic design is my passion™.
GUESS WHO'S 20 with a picture of the original cover of Twilight (two pale arms holding an apple) against a background of misty trees. Beneath it says Looking for a good read if you've got twi-stalgia?
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This is, as the academics say, a rich text.

I'd say look at all that chest hair but I can't look away from all that chest hair and I assume the same is true for you.
Albuquerque by Sara Orwig: a white woman with windblown blonde hair and an off the shoulder dress stands with her arms folded and one hand near her clavicle. Behind her is a dude. This dude is: shirtless, with his shirt over his shoulder. Hatless, holding his hat by his leg. Wearing denim jeans, boots, a belt and a holster. He has sort of puffy hair, but when I say there is chest hair, I mean there is artistically rendered chest hair and a treasure trail, and it's hard to look away from. Behind them is a church and a partially built construction of some sort.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This won't be uncomfortable to read.

A book called White Dreams with a woman in a buckskin fringe dress (the default uniform for Indigenous heroines in old skool romances, sort of like the studded leather Hot Topic Urban Fantasy belt, except more racist) with a guy in uniform.

Nice erect cactus!
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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There are so many to choose from. I'm not kidding. Look at this.

I won't find anything problematic in this book called...White Nights.

Those folks in the covered wagon are full on creepers.
White Nights by Susan Edwards, showing a woman in a low cut blue dress with a man with a GIANT mullet behind him and a flannel shirt wide open pulling the shoulder of her dress down. In the background are some folks in a covered wagon who look like they're watching the whole thing go down.
September 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I went to a protest and got a mini zine "Don't be an Imperial Feminist!"

Freaking awesome little zine
A small folded zine with a picture of a blonde woman in a cap and jacket with a red X drawn over her with the caption Don't be an Imperial Feminist - say no to genocide and war
September 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Can you believe this pathetic display was signed off on? Like, "Yup, good show there, Graeme. No, no, doesn't reflect poorly on you at all. Let's print this straight away!"
The green and white garbage truck that says whole man disposal services. Yes the entire man
September 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Holly Black is my guest on the latest episode of the podcast talking about her Night duology, plus haunted places, shadow magic, and Kelly Clarkson.

In this clip: writing romance is all about calibration.

Listen here: bit.ly/684HollyBlack
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Amanda shared a post from writer/illustrator Odette Locke about her work in progress, and my brain caught fire:

FANTASY OSHA
An illustration of a couple wearing visibility vests in the middle surrounded by the trope tags, such as grumpy, forbidden love, berserker knight, love rules, NSFW magic, and at the top, Fantasy OSHA A close up of the words Fantasy OSHA and workplace romance
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Cream of Wheat photoshopped to read Cream of Whut hot bewilderment, Whut the heck. At the top it says Excellent source of HUH?
September 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Well that makes this meme even more hilarious.
Ask not for whom the vengabus is coming. It is coming for thee.
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A person dressed in a Maryland flag body stocking (no idea why that's a thing) smacks one cheek then does a jig
August 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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While discussing the July 2016 Ads & Features from Romantic Times magazine, we took a side trip into a discussion of the Sad Historical Business Man, or the Emotionally Broken Hero trope.

Basically? All of the consuming emotional drama, none of the therapy bills.

bit.ly/681RTRW
August 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Molly Horan teaches YA literature and is writing her thesis on aro/ace YA novels. So of course I wanted to know everything.

In this clip: one example of developing intimacy with aro/ace characters.

Find the episode where you get your tasty podcasts, or listen here: 🎧https://bit.ly/680MollyHoran
August 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Here's an example.

Is that the pee-pee dance? Why are their legs so short?

And then...there are MORE COVERS.

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Love the Duke by Amelia Grey. A historical cover. A man and woman are in a parlor. The man has blond hair and his navy coat is slight open to reveal his chest. He's behind a blonde woman in a blue dress, who appears to be squeezing her legs together.
August 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Look at this shirt. Where do you get a shirt like this? Can I get a shirt like this? What even is this shirt?
A white lady with gray hair stands with her arms behind her back and she's wearing a shirt that is entirely somebody's face with the pink and turquoise sunglasses directly over her bosoms, red hair going over her shoulders and possibly the word girl written in gold across her chest. But the v-neck gets in the way and then below her boobies are red lips and green or yellow nails. Acting like they're smoking a cigarette but there's no cigarette there
August 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Watching Antiques Roadshow on PBS Passport.

Y'all. I am not looking at the furniture.
Two men stand on either side of a piece of wooden furniture and a gallery type room. The man on the left is wearing a blue jacket and is a solid foot shorter than the man on the right who's wearing some skinny chinos and a blue button down the height difference is significant
August 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Y'all @ceilidhann.bsky.social had many, many smart things to say about the topic, including this clip as to why cozy crime novels are satisfying for readers right now.

Listen where you get your podcasts, or you can listen right here: bit.ly/678Kayleigh

Thanks Kayleigh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
August 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I realize it's a fuzzy picture but where is her leg?
The Daring Twin by Donna Fletcher. A man with a red mullet-esque hairdo with now shirt nad a green kilt is lifting? a woman with red curly hair an off the shoulder blouse and a long pink skirt. Her knee is over his hip, and she's higher up than he is but her other leg is not visible and it's very bothersome.
July 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Mo we paused for a good six or seven minutes on this one. My teenagers were baffled.

"Why is he dressed in mixed berry?"
"He looks like a Skittle."
"Seriously what is up with those pants."
Okay. One of the guys in Billy Joel's band. I don't remember which one is wearing a red pink magenta shirt with purple overalls and a gray tie with very high-waisted pleated baggy '90s pants of an indiscriminate color
July 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM