It’s time! Smart Bitches After Dark is open to everyone for registration!
Come on in, the mayhem is delightful!
You might have seen our first After Dark posts go up the past two Sundays, with a link to register, but this is the Official Announcement.
Mostly because I used Capital Letters.
We already have over 100 members of the community registered, and it’s going to be a LOT of fun.
You can join After Dark right here!
I had set a goal of having 100 subscribers by Thanksgiving, and we’re over 100 after 10 days. Thank you, y’all.
In case you missed our announcement last week, here’s a little more info:
What’s Smart Bitches After Dark?
A special area for SBTB supporting subscribers to have a little extra fun, be a little extra more themselves, and to keep the site open for everyone into the future.
The longer version: Smart Bitches After Dark is an opportunity for community support.
Our goal is to keep the community of Smart Bitches open for everyone, rather than move it all behind a paywall.
We want people to keep discovering romance, the books we talk about, and the wonderful, welcoming community we have here.
In order to do that, we need your help. Enter: Smart Bitches After Dark.
What’s inside Smart Bitches After Dark?
Old Skool Smart Bitches!
We’re bringing back a lot of the features from the archives of Original Recipe Smart Bitches, like open threads, reviews of older romances (especially the absolutely off the wall ones. Remember time travel?!) games, silly contests, recommendations, reader reviews, afternoon tea, and deeper discussions about romance, changes in the genre, and serious topics. We’ll also be doing live events online, including streaming, trivia nights, and happy hour gatherings.
Another thing that’s changed in the past 20 years is how we need safer spaces in which to be ourselves.
We want Smart Bitches After Dark to be that place for us.
To be clear: we aren’t moving any of the existing shenanigans behind a paywall. We want Smart Bitches to stay open for everyone.
It’s going to be fun, and silly, and fulfilling and fabulous. I hope you’ll be part of it!
With your help, we can keep Smart Bitches and the hot pink palace open for everyone.
And members of Smart Bitches After Dark will enjoy a low-ad template for the site, too!
Who is this community for?
- Are you the type of person who is sometimes silly, sometimes snarky, and irreverently passionate about books, characters, and trends?
- Are you a longtime romance and/or Smart Bitches reader who fondly remembers old skool SBTB mayhem like Pregnesia and The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable Girl?
- Are you a newer and happily obsessed fan of romance whose body might maybe flash a little hot sometimes, and who wants to find a community that welcomes your enthusiasm and can perhaps help explain some of the genre’s history, including scandals of yore? Come deepen your fandom!
- Are you tired of hearing about the same 4 books on TikTok and want more personalized and expert recommendations from people with truly encyclopedic knowledge of tropes?
- Are you a reader who values what we do and wants to help keep the site open for everyone?
If you fit any or all of the above (Hi!) and 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.
What’s the cost?
$9 a month, or $90 for the year, which includes two months for free. Free, cheezy bread, free!
Where is it?
Right here! You’ll have a place to log in, and twice a week, there will be special content just for the After Dark community.
What if I have an idea for you?
By all means, please email and tell me!
How do I join?
Anything else?
Thank you for reading! We want Smart Bitches to continue into the future as a community-supported celebration of romance and of reading. Smart Bitches After Dark is going to help all of us sustain the site and with it, the connections between people all over the world who come to hang out here.
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