It's not everyday that you get to meet Oprah's BFF Sarah Wendell on Gayle King

 

Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

Go Sarah!  The author of this book, Sarah Wendell, gave the keynote speech at the Book Bloggers' Conference last May.  She is funny, smart and irreverent; three of my favorite things.  Buy her book.

Product Description

Take a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces of clothing, and what do you have? A romance novel. What else? Enough lessons about life, love, and everything in between to help you with your own happily-ever-after.

Lessons like...

Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending

Learning to tell the prince from the frog

Real-life romance is still alive and kicking

No matter how bad it is, at least you haven't been kidnapped by a Scottish duke (probably)

Straight from the heart of influential romance blogger Sarah Wendell, this inventive gift book provides the best wisdom about love that the romance genre has to offer. Laced with signature witty commentary and peppered with thoughts from bestselling romance authors (Nora Roberts, Jennifer Crusie, Debbie Macomber, Eloisa James, Robyn Carr, and lots more) and avid readers, these pages will reveal what every romance reader already knows: while romances are certainly steamy, they have more to offer than just a sexy hero. In fact, they might have more to say about love than we give them credit for. Sarah Wendell is cofounder of one of the top romance blogs, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com. (20110525) Amazon.com

THE BODICE RIPPING PARTICULARS

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca; Original edition (October 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402254490
ISBN-13: 978-140225449
Kindle: 312 KB
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services 

Sarah's own recounting of her time with Ms. King, including her clothes and jewelry is here at SMART BITCHES, TRASHY BOOKS.