{"id":1204,"date":"2005-08-15T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T19:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/no-love-lost-for-romance-publisher\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T19:45:24","slug":"no-love-lost-for-romance-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/no-love-lost-for-romance-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"No Love Lost for Romance Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Smart Bitches, Trashy Books<\/I> is fast becoming my go-to blog for news from the romance segment of the publishing industry. First there was the brouhaha over the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001648.html\">RWA awards ceremony<\/A>, and this morning they <A href=\"http:\/\/www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/index.php\/weblog\/another_chance_to_educate_candy\/\">report<\/A> on one small publisher&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/katerothwell.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/more-fun-and-hi-jinks-at-rwa.html\">challenge to RWA&#8217;s bestowals of legitimacy<\/A>. The <I>SB,TB<\/I> reader comments show this issue isn&#8217;t cut-and-dry, and it raises a lot of interesting questions about the role writer&#8217;s groups can play in advocating for their members by keeping publishers &#8220;honest&#8221; (in the broadest sense of the term).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is fast becoming my go-to blog for news from the romance segment of the publishing industry. First there was the brouhaha over the RWA awards ceremony, and this morning they report on one small publisher&#8217;s challenge to RWA&#8217;s bestowals of legitimacy. The SB,TB reader comments show this issue isn&#8217;t cut-and-dry, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}