the ask@AAR: What’s the perfect length for a novel?

December 20, 2024

Increasingly, the short novel seems to me to be the ideal literary form for our tired, distracted but still story-hungry age. The above is from a recent column by Margaret…

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the ask@AAR: Are you ready to agree to disagree?

December 13, 2024

Currently, I am working a joint review with another reviewer on a book I loved and she did not. Neither is going to change the other’s mind about this work….

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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite film adaptation?

December 6, 2024

It is the era of the recycled tale. So much so I often wonder whether or not any original stories are being filmed.  Cape Fear, a story originally written by…

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the ask@AAR: What’s the best proposal story?

November 22, 2024

Yesterday, my husband, three of our kids, and their significant others got up at 4am, piled into two rental cars, and drove 90 minutes to the top of Haleakala (on…

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the ask@AAR: What was the best….?

November 15, 2024

It’s that time of year: Our Best of 2024 lists will start to run soon!  We don’t make lists by genre but that doesn’t mean you can’t! What is your…

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the ask@AAR: Do you need a hug?

November 8, 2024

Whatever your politics and wherever you live, this week’s American election is something you’ve been inundated with stories and opinions about. On election day, I heard from friends in India,…

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the ask@AAR: What, if any, social media do you use?

November 1, 2024

I’m old enough to have signed up for Facebook as soon as it was available to the general public. It was 2006 and my 15 year old son and I…

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You guys really like historical romance!

October 31, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, I start running reports–how we’re doing financially, what pages readers visit the most, etc…. One I run each year that becomes less…

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the ask@AAR: What’s the best romance, thus far, of the year?

October 25, 2024

It’s astonishing to me there are just two months left in 2024. That adage about parenting–the days are long but the years are short–gets truer for me every year. Time…

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the ask@AAR: What are the traits a romance hero has to have?

October 18, 2024

I’ve just finished rereading one of my favorite books by Meredith Duran–Written on Your Skin–for an upcoming review. I adore Phin Granville as a hero–he’s complex, strong, brilliant, and willing…

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the ask@AAR: Do you read prize-winning fiction?

October 11, 2024

I’m feeling like a heathen–I have no idea who Han Kang is, the author who was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize in literature. Yesterday, writing about the prize, A. O….

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the ask@AAR: What’s out for heroes these days? What’s in?

October 4, 2024

A few months ago, Slate wondered if billionaire heroes were finally out in romance. Regular romance heroes could have told them, duh, yes. Other than Annika Martin’s Billionaires of Manhattan…

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