Music Sets the Tone: A Guest Post by Kim Sakwa

July 13, 2020

Music is one of the most important elements in my writing process. And the music that inspires the stories of my characters differs vastly from one book to the next….

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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite road trip/travel romance?

July 10, 2020

My husband doesn’t want to fly until there’s a vaccine for COVID and so the trips we usually take in the summer are cancelled. We love our beautiful little town…

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The Wayback on Wednesday: Chatting with Sherry Thomas and Joanna Bourne

July 8, 2020

Joanna Bourne & Sherry Thomas published on June 26, 2008   With The Spymaster’s Lady and Private Arrangements these new authors exploded (almost literally considering the volume of the online…

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WHY ROMANCE? A guest post by Alexandra Y. Caluen

July 6, 2020

Romance novels, and romance writers, still get a lot of no respect. Why would any self-respecting, trained historian with a fairly intellectual job choose to write romance, knowing that a lot…

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the ask@ARR: How do you feel about updated romances?

July 3, 2020

Lisa Kleypas has released a revised and updated audio edition of Mine Til Midnight originally published in 2007. The book is the first in her Hathaways series. Here is the…

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the Wayback on Wednesday: The Allure of the Medieval Romance by Shana Abe

July 1, 2020

published sometime in 2003 I must confess that as a child I never really dreamed about being a princess, a damsel in distress, a beautiful medieval lady rescued by her…

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the ask@AAR: What should AAR’s sensuality ratings look like in 2020?

June 26, 2020

For as long as AAR’s been reviewing, we’ve rated romances for how spicy/sexy/hot or not a love story is. (Our current sensuality ratings may be found here.) Currently, our standards…

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the ask@AAR: What’s the best book you’ve read this year?

June 19, 2020

Happy Juneteenth! OK, peeps. We’re halfway through 2020–a year I’ll be thrilled to see the back of–and I want to know: What’s the best book you’ve read this year? And…

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Second Chances Can Happen: A Guest Post by Leigh Fleming

June 18, 2020

You’ve heard the headlines on your favorite morning news show: Divorced Couple Finds Love Again After Thirty Years. The perky anchorwoman then spouts the exciting details of a couple who…

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the ask@AAR: What’s your topic deal breaker?

June 12, 2020

I recently read a book in which the hero of the book had been through and thus was obsessed with school shootings. I could barely get through it. That’s a…

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What are you reading right now?

June 8, 2020

On Friday, a brutal 13 months and 2 days after his diagnosis, one of my closest friends died of Stage Four pancreatic cancer. The last weeks of his life were…

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

June 5, 2020

This week, I was reading Lisa’s review of These Violent Delights (coming out in November), a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai. (She gave it an exuberant DIK.)…

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