"I would like to kill you but I will pray for you!" (Oddly enough, not a religious wank)
Candy and Sarah of Smart Bitches who Love Trashy Novels are having a hell of a week. They're embroiled with two fights of quasi-celebrities in the Romance community -- or at least their sockpuppets.

In corner one lies (maybe) Tony Cantazaro, cover model of Sexy Beast III. The Smart Bitches snarked at him a bit last month, particularly when he said his abs were what got the book great reviews, but nothing as bad as what they do to romance covers on a regular basis.

Cantazaro (maybe) writes to the bitches a month later, displaying all the charm of Fred Phelps at a gay man's funeral.


To you “ladies” and I use the term loosely, who have nothing better to do than to trash people they dont even know, probably all look like fat disgusting hairy looking men! You are desperate and pathetic bitches that NEVER get laid and need to hide behind their computer to trash others because they cannot hack it in the real world!

People that have nothing better to do with their lives than to live on the computer and talk shit about people who actually have a life are the biggest, pathetic, degenerate losers on the face of this earth!

Its a real shame when people are so miserable in their own lives, that they have no heart nor compassion for others. Beauty begins on the inside, and you bitches dont know the first thing about what life is all about!

I would love nothing more than to throw you bitches in the trunk of my caddy and dump you in the weeds somewhere off the Belt Pkwy! But instead, I will pray for you.

When you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, you see a pile of shit which is yourself!

I can already smell your skin burning from the hell that awaits you!


The bitches snark, but also are none-too-pleased with the clear threat in the letter.

Then, Cantazaro's wife (maybe) shows up to defend her husband, saying that he wouldn't have to resort to such douchebaggery if those mean ladies would JUST BE NICE, and that anybody commenting on the site IS nice. It's just the mean ones he wants to kidnap.

Amy in my husbands defense he did NOT direct this message to you or anyone else that didnt trash him. It was directed to the few who have on these messages. He is a good man and he was very upset when he read this blog.

To the women that did not talk crap about him....this was not geared toward you. When people make fun and insult other people, especially people that they dont know, that hurts… I’m sure no one else would like it.

Sarah is not impressed.

First, your husband’s behavior, if indeed it was him, is not excused by either his offers to pray for us, or your defense that someone “trashed” him. Good men, to my definition, do NOT threaten perfect strangers or state that they plan to throw people in the trunk of their cars and toss us off the Belt Parkway. Good men don’t hurl insults, and they don’t throw tantrums.

Your husband, to put it bluntly, made a public ass of himself, and you’re not helping in the least. It would be my pleasure to contact the police department, his manager and agent, and my attorney, to discuss his threats further.

For the Love of God. Shut Up.

Also, the bitches also engaged in mockery of an essay by Kathryn Falk, the C.E.O. of Romantic Times magazine. In the article, Falk decried all the meanies on the interweb who are ruining the kind, gentle and loving land of romance novels through all their negativity. The bitches mock verily. But then it takes an odd turn when Kathryn Falk e-mails Sarah, saying that um ... wasn't her and she does not understand this new invention of the internets. But the person might have made arguments that she made or ... something.

Carol said it sounded like me, and it probably is me, but I’m retired.... Carol says it my words about positivity and positive energy, but not the rest.

There’s nothing I can do about it, but I’m not set up to go online. That’s not my focus. Someone took my words but that isn’t me.

But it’s not important. People shouldn’t get off on controversy or nastiness, when it’s more important to be positive to attract good things.... When you fill your bowl of abundance with love, you receive love.

Some of this could get ugly, folks ...

ETA: issendai summarizes an update. It seems like Tony and his wife might really be sockpuppets.

Also, I might have misread Sarah and I think Kathryn Falk may have called her. Not e-mailed her. At least her "I don't get teh internets!" deal makes a little more sense.