WE WON!! Many kisses and hugs to all of you who voted for us in the BBAW awards, and a complimentary rub (at spot of choice) from either Juan or Sven! Now we’re not going to get all sappy on you or anything so you can ju - oh who are we kidding?! *sniffle* Come here! *group hug* We love each and everyone of you for all your comments, recommendations, man candy pictures and attempts at stealing our pre-dibbed alpha male heroes when you thought we weren’t noticing. Uh huh. You know who you are.

And so, we dedicate our win to you, dear readers.

A special shout-out to all the nominees, the winners and of course, Amy for organising this stellar event. It was, of course, an honor just to have been nominated. We weren’t expecting this win at all! The fact that we may have had a prepared acceptance speech was pure coincidence. Honest!

XOXO,

Lola, Sheridan, Mimi

Our dear readers,

They’re back. They’re ALL back. As we try to work through the problem (by perhaps casting another spell), we deeply apologise if your comments have disappeared and hope that you still love us. *puppy dog eyes*

XOXO,

Lola, Sheridan, Mimi

In the romance novel justice system, sexually inept heroes are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special RMB Unit. These are their stories.

*chang chang*

1. The suspect– Phury from “Lover Enshrined“: Have you ever heard the one about the guy with the wooden leg? Neither have we, but we bet he’d be better at doing it than Phury. Having spent large amounts of time mooning over Bella, the RMB girls were eager to see how Phury’d take to his Chosen, Cormia. Sadly for us (and Cormia), he only took her in the last quarter of the book. We should have known better than to expect something wild from a V-to the-Irgin vampire whose one and only unfinished experience had been in a toilet cubicle with a prostitute. That’s right. Unfinished. Dude, you may have an artificial leg, but surely this doesn’t affect the rest of your appendages. Sentenced to: Ten years hard labour in Cormia’s bed, so that at least the poor thing finally gets what’s coming to her (pun fully intended).
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Greetings from the sparkly pink donut in the sky!

We are thrilled to report that we’re finalists in Book Blogger Appreciation Week for the following categories:

a) Best romance blog
b) Best commentator
c) Funniest blog
d) Best name for a blog

Hip hip! *hic* Hooray! *hic* (Sorry, we broke out the bubbly in joy and are dancing around in our Manolos.)

Please vote for us at:
http://www.myfriendamysblog.com/2008/09/bbaw-awards-2008-voting-booth.html

And congrats to all the other finalists for a job well done!

Girls, we’re ecstatic! As long as you keep on reading, we’ll keep on snarking. Seriously, the only thing that could make us happier at the moment is if John McKenna, Bowen and Lucien Knight came crashing through our sky roof. Nekkid. *faints*

Smooches,
Lola, Sheri & Mimi

A little birdie has told us about Book Blogger Appreciation Week and suggested that Ripmybodice.com throws our stylish statement hats into the ring. If you have an appreciation for snark and RMB’s amusing, irreverent and ok fine, sometimes inflammatory reviews and are filled with overwhelming gratitude that we’ve saved you from reading some real clunkers, how about nominating us for:

Best Romance Blog
Best Name for a Blog
Funniest/ Most Humorous Blog
Best Commentator (really, feel free to nominate any one of us. Our friendship can withstand the test, never fear we’ll go all Simon & Garfunkel on you)

Sadly, our informant little birdie dropped the ball and got sidetracked by a hot male birdie, so she only told us about this yesterday. So err… yes, nominations close on 31 August 2008. Write in to Bbawawards@gmail.com soon (like, today actually)!

XOXO,
Lola, Sheri & Mimi

The RMB girls gather around their large crystal punch bowl filled to the brim with all the different flavours of Absolut vodka, in their Vic’s Secret PINK PJs, chanting:

“Double double toil and trouble,
Spam bots make our blood bubble.
Round about the punch bowl go
In the pink bath bombs throw.

Scale of fish, an old wisdom tooth
An out of season shoe, and a piece of an old booth.
O Romance Gods hear our cries
And of these spam bots whom we deeply despise.
Throw them into a pit so deep
That into our website, their comments no longer creep.
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A swarm of Mimi’s mutant killer bees have escaped from her secret lab (i.e. her office) once again and have attacked our web servers here at RipMyBodice. Due to this unforseen event, we are now hiding up on the roof as the bees have quickly taken over all our offices. We are in trouble. Men with nets and knowledge of computers will be coming any day now to rescue us….or so they said before laughing and hanging up. Fear not though dear readers, we have managed to escape with our laptops and stash of books. We also have a wet bar up here consisting a far bit of alcohol. Thus you, our lovelies, will not have to go too long without one of our reviews/raniews. Please do however, excuse our website during this time of great upheaval.

XOXO,
Lola, Sheri, Mi

A collaborative effort between Scribe Sheridan Sakura Carlotta and Linguist La Lola

A is for “Alpha”, our RipMyBodice battlecry/ The reason we get up each morning (die Betas, die!!)

B is for “Black Dagger Brotherhood” and our reason for living/ The release of a new BDB book is much cause for screaming

C is for “Chicago”, the city not the Broadway show / The city of choice for Ms Judith McNaught; the place where Sheridan hopes to meet an industralist billionaire whose seed he wants to sow
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Hola chicas!

By now, most of you should have received a little token of our appreciation in the mail; assuming you had forwarded us your email addresses before our carrier pigeons left the building. We’re sorry it took so long to reach each and everyone of you. It wasn’t as easy training pigeons as we thought it would be. Don’t worry, next year we’ll use owls instead! I mean, it worked for Harry so I see no reason why it wouldn’t work for us right? Right??

We apologise for the lack of man flesh in the envelope. The RMB budget is running on low this year (already!) so we really couldn’t splurge on postage. I mean, we’re already eating them crappy meals from the clearance bin at Tescos (oh for shame!!) and downing as much wine as we can at communion in order to get y’all something bigger and better next year! So. Thanks again for all your support and love, for liking our reviews, your comments, and fantastic recommendations! Strawberry Bellinis on da house!

XOXO
Lola, Sheri, Mi

Hola RMB readers,

A month back (Ok fine, 2 months) we’d promised to send you guys a little something as a way of saying “Thanks for listening to us swoon over gorgeous, built Alphas and bitch about the heroines who don’t deserve them.” To those of you who have written in with your addresses and demands to know what it is, no, it is not Gerard Butler.

Anyway, we’re sorry it’s a little late, but we’ve been busy reading, reviewing, raniewing, shopping, drinking, eating, drinking and whipping Juan and Sven into submission (this is as fun as it sounds). But we’re going to send it out next week. Pinky swear! So if anyone else still wants to get a little “The RMB girls love me and I can prove it!” gift, drop us an email with your address!

XOXO
Lola, Sheridan & Mimi