An interview with Lynn (also known as Jenna) about her new book!

March 18, 2024

Dabney: What made you want to write a YA book? Lynn: I love that stage in life, at least on a fictional level. Real life young adulthood is so fraught…

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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite romance, thus far, of 2024?

March 15, 2024

AAR has given DIKs to twenty-three books in 2024. Of those, fifteen are 2024 releases. They are: Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips A Wild and Heavenly Place by…

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the ask@AAR: What, now, do we want from love stories?

March 8, 2024

The thing about romance novels, it was always said, they had to have a happily ever after ending (or, perhaps, a happy for now ending.) Romance Writers of America still…

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March releases! What are you excited about?

March 4, 2024

Here are just a few of the March releases the world is chatting about. Are any of them on your radar? If not, what is?

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the ask@AAR: What’s popular at AAR?

March 1, 2024

I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from…

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A blast from the past: AAR–then it was likesbooks.com–in May 1998

February 26, 2024

AAR published its first pages in 1996, started by the brilliant Laurie Gold. Many of the early pages–although not the reviews–are lost due to incompatible software, cost, and error. We…

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the ask@AAR: What are your favorite second chance at love romances?

February 23, 2024

I love second chance romances. Not the ones where people dated briefly in high school or had a youthful fling, but those stories where people fell hard out of love…

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Read any Romantasy lately?

February 19, 2024

The two best selling fiction works at Amazon in 2023 were Fourth Wing and Iron Flame both of which are–and I so don’t love this mashup–romantasy. Also in the top…

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the ask@AAR: Do you care how you look? (I do!)

February 16, 2024

I grew up in peak beauty tip times. Every magazine, newspaper, and friend’s older sister shared how to look better. Starting in junior high, my friends and I spent hours…

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A (personal) history of Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2024

Today, in the U.S., hundreds of thousands of Valentine’s Day cards will be exchanged. Americans will spend close to thirty billion dollars on Valentine’s Day gifts. Close to 300 million…

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An interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips

February 12, 2024

There’s a new Chicago Stars book coming out which I, of course, had to read. I have always enjoyed the chance to chat with Susan, so when her team asked…

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the ask@AAR: What have you been reading lately?

February 9, 2024

Goodreads tells me I’ve read eleven books thus far this year. They are: The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini Never Blow a Kiss by Lindsay Lovise Devil’s Kitchen…

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