Posted February 17, 2011 to Digital, Media Appearances
Sometimes, you think of something slightly amusing, and with the combined power of funny people, librarians, and Twitter, awesomeness happens.
As Media Bistro’s GalleyCat wrote up today, I started a Twitter hashtag of based on my knowledge that when and then , it’s likely because librarians, particularly JERSEY librarians, are fearsome.
And would make a MUCH better reality show than any of the other Jersey-based entertainment currently on television. Which is your favorite? I think my favorite of the #jerseylibrarians tweets are this one from : “Starring Bookie and The Circulation? #Sorry #couldnthelpmyself” and this one from : “The Friends of the Library promise their undying friendship if you would do them a small favor.”
Posted December 09, 2010 to Digital, Media Appearances, Print
Not only am I in The New York Times, but so are my dogs , looking in the window, trying to figure out how to eat the photographer’s bag.
I’m so happy with this article, not just because I’m in it, but because romance is on the front page in a positive article with a collection of quotes and comments from booksellers, publishers, and, anchored on either end of the article, romance readers.
Sarah Wendell, blogger and co-author of “Beyond Heaving Bosoms,” is passionate about romance novels.
Except for the covers, with their images of sinewy limbs, flowing, Fabio-esque locks or, as she put it, “the mullets and the man chests.”
“They are not always something that you are comfortable holding in your hand in public,” Ms. Wendell said.
So she began reading e-books, escaping the glances and the imagined snickers from strangers on the subway, and joining the many readers who have traded the racy covers of romance novels for the discretion of digital books.
If the e-reader is the digital equivalent of the brown-paper wrapper, the romance reader is a little like the Asian carp: insatiable and unstoppable. Together, it turns out, they are a perfect couple. Romance is now the fastest-growing segment of the e-reading market, ahead of general fiction, mystery and science fiction, according to data from Bowker, a research organization for the publishing industry.
Hooray for romance!
Posted October 26, 2010 to Digital, Media Appearances, Print
I’m quoted in the New York Post today in
“It’s a lifestyle for me, but I give all the credit to my mom for making [me] this way,” he says, with a humility befitting one of his romance Romeos. But if his workout regimen could make many a fitness freak swoon, it’s his fantasy-inducing face that has romance readers’ loins quivering.
“This guy’s very special,” says Sarah Wendell, co-founder of the romance review site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. “There are only a handful of people you see over and over again that become an icon in the romance-novel cover world.”
Wendell notes that publishers usually put Adams’ entire head on covers, a rarity in the “decapitated-male-model central of the romance novel aisle.” And with romance fiction sales totaling $1.36 billion in 2009, according to the Romance Writers of America, the choice of cover stud is crucial.
“The cover is a very big draw, especially for impulse shoppers,” says Wendell. “If you’re very lucky, you’ll get pectoral muscles that could shelter you under a rainstorm.”
I wish the caption hadn’t labeled him a “professional beefcake,” as clearly Adams works very hard at his job and at staying in shape.
What floored me? This man is 43 years old! He can climb 183 flights of stairs in a single hour and leap tall bicycles in a single bound and he is 43? I need to go work out. That is awesome – way to go, sir.
