International Guest: Sarah Wendell

Sarah Wendell is author of the book Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance
Novels, 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 specialises 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 her quest to celebrate the romance genre and the women who read and write it, Sarah has
appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Gayle King Show on The Oprah
Winfrey Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Steven and Chris Show, NPR’s All
Things Considered and on Too Many Books. She has been quoted in People Magazine, The New
Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today, New Jersey Monthly, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times Book Blog, Redbook, Metro:New York, and
Publishers Weekly.