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

February 21, 2020

Today, it’s all about the novella. According to Wikipedia, A novella is a work of narrative prose fiction, longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Publishers and literary award societies typically…

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Marsha Canham on writing what needed to be written

February 17, 2020

I have written three trilogies, and each time I wrote the third book in the set, I thought: okay, tie up all the loose ends, make sure everything you need…

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the ask@AAR: What’s the most wildly romantic scene you’ve ever read?

February 14, 2020

On some rare occasions, if you’re favored, you read a passage or a scene in a novel so grandly romantic, you’re gobsmacked. You swoon, your heart feels tender and ardent….

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The ask@AAR: One Romance to Rule Them All?

February 7, 2020

Later this month, a friend of mine’s book club which typically only reads very serious books for adults is going to read a romance. They read about the RWA fiasco…

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Catching up with Milla Vane… and a giveaway!

February 3, 2020

A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian…

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

January 31, 2020

Lately, I’ve been craving a book that will break my heart… and then put it back together again. It’s been so long since I read a romance that made me…

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the ask@AAR: An HEA? An HFN? How do you define a happy ending?

January 24, 2020

I’m not sure how old you have to be to cringe when you hear the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song. For those of you whose childhoods were blessedly free of this rhyme, it…

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The Best of 2019–Dabney’s List

January 22, 2020

Like many an AAR reader, I was a child repeatedly decried as “lost in a book.” I am a swift reader and, while growing up, read a book every two…

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the ask@AAR: Why do YOU read romance?

January 17, 2020

A recent article in the Washington Post was titled Reading will supposedly make you a better person. That’s not the real reason to pick up a book. In it, the…

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the ask@AAR: Who’s your favorite couple (of all time) in romance?

January 10, 2020

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman. Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. Stella Lane and Michael Phan. Naledi Smith and Thabiso Moshoeshoe. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Dominic Frey and Silas Mason. Just to name a few….

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the ask@AAR: What was THE BEST in 2019?

January 3, 2020

AAR no longer has the manpower to run our annual reader poll but we still want to know what you think! So, give us your 2019 choices for: Best romance…

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the ask@AAR: Traditional Publishing vs. Self-Publishing in Romance–What are your thoughts?

December 20, 2019

It’s damn difficult to get numbers on what percentage of romance novels are self-published or traditionally published. One site, looking at Kindle sales only, posits these numbers:

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