There’s good news and bad news about romance authors’ incomes

October 9, 2023

In September, the Authors Guild, in collaboration with 36 other organizations, conducted an extensive survey on author income in the United States. This study involved 5,699 published authors and emcompassed…

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the ask@AAR: Wanna make some recommendations for the AAR Top 100 poll?

October 6, 2023

The AAR Top 100 Poll has always been a readers’ poll. It’s not a list of what AAR staffers, critics, libraries, or the media thinks are the Top 100 romance…

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I can’t believe there are penises trending on Max…..

October 2, 2023

Last week, the Washington Post had an in depth article about the British show Naked Attraction. I was startled to read that the show: The U.S. trailer asks viewers: “What…

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the ask@AAR: What five books would you include in the AAR top 100 poll?

September 29, 2023

I’ve been thinking, with some reluctance, given the challenges we faced in doing our last AAR Top 100 poll, about how we might do a new one. I’ve thought about…

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the ask@AAR: What is the best historical fiction you’ve read lately?

September 22, 2023

I cannot stop raving about The Frozen River, Ariel Lawson’s upcoming book. I can’t wait for youall to be able to read it. It is the best historical fiction I’ve…

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the ask@AAR: What do you think about our new site?

September 8, 2023

Welcome to the new All About Romance! We’ve changed our Home page, added a way for you to keep track of the books you love–Bookmarks–and improved our backend coding. We…

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the ask@AAR: Have you seen Barbie and what did you think?

August 25, 2023

I finally saw Barbie last week in a funky little theater in Asheville, North Carolina. My daughter and I took in an afternoon show and the theater was almost empty–it…

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Are these movies better than the books? I think so! Do you?

August 23, 2023

Gone with the Wind The Godfather Jaws The English Patient Little Women (2019) The Notebook Stardust What, you ask, are these? Movie adaptations that are better–in some cases, much better–than…

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the ask@AAR: Are people more rude than in the past? And if so, why?

August 18, 2023

Lately, everywhere I read, I see articles about the increased cruelty/meanness/rudeness of our modern world. Articles titled  How America Got Mean, Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend, If you’ve…

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the ask@AAR: If AAR had a slogan, what would it be?

August 11, 2023

This week I have been at my annual big family vacation in the North Carolina mountains. We’ve been coming to the same “family camp” since I was a child–this year…

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

August 4, 2023

We are living in a golden age for documentary films. Lately, when I ask people what they’re watching, almost everyone speaks with passion about a documentary. In the past month…

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the ask@AAR: What’s your go to sleep read?

July 28, 2023

I struggle to fall asleep. I always have. As the poet Dana Gioia writes, every night brings to me the useless insight, the unbroken dark. I am not anxious or…

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