We wanted to thank you all for another summer of bingo! So far, we have over 100 submissions this year, with around 15% of you getting five bingos. That’s a hell of a lot of reading. The form will be kept open until around 8pm eastern for any last minute submissions. We’ll also reach out to those who have won a box of books. We will most likely skip the Winter Unhinged Bingo because of … Continue reading Thanks for Playing the 2026 SBTB Summer Romance Bingo!→
This piece of literary mayhem is exclusive to Smart Bitches After Dark, but fret not. If you’d like to join, we’d love to have you! Have a look at our membership options, and come join the fun! If you want to have a little extra fun, be a little more yourself, and be part of keeping the site open for everyone in the future, we can’t wait to see you in our new subscription-based section … Continue reading Sunday Sale Digest!→
Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster.
This Rec League was sent in by SA: I come again with a very specific request: do you have any recommendations for romances with a more casual attitude to BDSM? By which I mean, I would like to read a story where the bondage and such is literally just part of having good fun sex and not used to characterize anyone as having a certain personality type (the dominant who always seeks control, the submissive … Continue reading The Rec League: Casual, Playful BDSM→
Welcome back! I’ve made it back from my vacation with a souvenir sickness. Hooray! That’s what I get for traveling around the start of the school year and to Disney no less. I’ve also heard people talking about having the flu already and they haven’t even had a chance to get their seasonal flu shot. I also feel like I’m snowballing into “so many things left to get done with so little time.” Such is … Continue reading Links: Dolly, Barbara, & More→
This HaBO comes from Lindsay, who wants to find this romance: This is an historical (probably written in the early 2000s or 2010s), and the protagonists have either a marriage of convenience or they marry young and some sort of Big Misunderstanding has the hero leaving shortly after the wedding night and going off to war. He returns from war to find that the heroine is thriving without him. As he proceeds to grovel, he … Continue reading HaBO: Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Part Deux→
