the ask@AAR: What is your favorite fall/winter holiday tradition?

December 5, 2025

I have never been great with traditions. In my adult life, I’ve worn very few Halloween costumes, I’d be happy to buy pre-cooked Thanksgiving food from the grocery store, and…

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It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I am so damn grateful.

November 28, 2025

Yesterday, I sat down for a marvelous Thanksgiving meal–the chef, one of my nephews, is a serious foodie (Did you know you could make a very good stuffing with broccoli?)–with…

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the ask@AAR: What do we think about the romances Goodreads loves?

November 21, 2025

It’s that time of year again. You know, where Goodreads nominates a bunch of books for the Goodreads Choice Awards and many of us are shocked–and not in a good…

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the ask@AAR: What Are Your Favorite Pulitzer Prize–Winning Novels?

November 14, 2025

I’m reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead right now and, to my surprise, loving it. That’s not usually my experience with Pulitzer winners; more often than not, I either loathe them…

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the ask@AAR: Are You Seeing the Changes in Book Publishing?

November 7, 2025

Book publishing has again shifted and for this, we can thank two behemoths that begin with A: Amazon and AI. AI is now part of every aspect of publishing. It…

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the ask@AAR: What books help you make sense of our current world?

October 31, 2025

I’ve just finished reading for the I don’t know how many-th time Joanna Bourne’s Spymasters series. And, somewhat startlingly, they seemed to speak very clearly to our current era. Not…

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the ask@AAR: What are your favorite 2025 TV shows?

October 24, 2025

I had a damn good time watching TV this year. Not everything wowed me–Reacher was a slog, I don’t understand the now old buzz about The Blacklist, Wisting was too…

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Publishers and Reviewers: The Romance Is Fading Fast

October 21, 2025

It used to be that publishers courted reviewers and review sites like ours. Back in the day, my mailbox (and those at AAR who came before me) overflowed with paperbacks…

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the ask@AAR: What love scenes make you swoon?

October 17, 2025

Back in 2017, we ran a set of columns asking our reviewers what love scenes in romance novels made them swoon. Reading over them now–you can find Part One here…

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the ask@AAR: What was the golden era of romance?

October 10, 2025

What was the golden age of romance? For some, it’s the 1980s and 1990s—the era of Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, and Lisa Kleypas, when paperbacks ruled the checkout aisle and…

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the ask@AAR: What romances have made you roar with laughter?

October 3, 2025

One of the great joys of romance is that it offers light when life feels dark. Right now, when stress seems to shadow much of life, laughter isn’t just a…

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the ask@AAR: Where do we go from here?

September 26, 2025

Since 1996, All About Romance has been where readers come to swoon, to squabble, and to share the joy (and occasional outrage) of a genre that never stands still. For…

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