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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Fifty Shades of Gray" for Republicans.
Michele Bachmann Has Inspired a Sexy Romance NovelMichele Bachmann was the muse for a new romance novel called Fires of Siberia, to be published June 1, about a fiery presidential candidate who tries to bone up on her foreign policy credentials only to get stuck in the wilderness with a sexy stranger. "Inspired by the life of Tea Party leader and Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Fires of Siberia is an old-fashioned bodice ripper romance that brings the heat for the 2013 summer beach reading season," touts publisher Badlands Unlimited.
Badlands Unlimited is not your traditional romance novel publisher. It's run by New York artist Paul Chan, and offers an eclectic mix of titles, from a collection of Saddam Hussein's early speeches to a set of 1964 interviews with Marcel Duchamp, which includes audio files on iTunes. Badlands Unlimited's website says it publishes ebooks "Because you cant publish a .GIF on paper," plus "reading an e-book on e-readers like the iPad or Kindle means you only have to use one hand to read, freeing your other hand to do whatever you please." Or, in the fancier words of the Los Angeles Review of Books, "As a publishing outfit, they are blurring the distinctions between art press, curatorial experiment and publishing industry gambit, while putting out a series of works that are strange enough individually, but seem even stranger when grouped together under the same moniker."
Presidential candidate Danielle Powers, full of firebrand pluck and red state sex appeal, has the country in a tizzy. But on an international tour to beef up her foreign policy experience, disaster ensuesher plane explodes over Siberia. Miraculously, Danielle survives, along with one other passengera mysterious stranger named Steadman Bass. Trapped in a wilderness of snow and ice, the two begin a journey that pushes Danielle to the brink. There she must confront her deepest self and choose between civilization and a wild, primitive ecstasy.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/michele-bachmann-has-inspired-sexy-romance-novel/65453/
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"Fifty Shades of Gray" for Republicans. (Original Post)
kiva
May 2013
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Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)1. This story goes from torrid to horrid
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kiva
(4,373 posts)2. Personally I love the name Steadman Bass...
a romantic hero named for a fish
Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)3. Looks like ol' Steadman really gives her "the vapors"!
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BainsBane
(53,032 posts)4. I'll wait for the movie
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)5. Directed by Roger Corman.