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

March 6, 2020

Between the coronavirus, the election, the stock market, and putting our house on the market (last kids moved out and we are downsizing big time), I am frazzled. I take…

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The Wayback on Wednesday: A Winning Review Parody

March 4, 2020

Reviews Parody Contest 1999 (from December, 1999) Merry Christmas, everyone, and a joyous holiday season to all! Today we announce the winner in our first ever Reviews Parody Contest! First…

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Donate to Romance for Literacy!

March 3, 2020

The romance community is running a great fundraiser to support literacy. AAR has a team and we’d love it if you’d donate to make the world a better place!

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the ask@AAR: What kinds of stories would you like to see more of in romance?

February 28, 2020

We’ve talked here before about no-go stories in romance–narratives that readers just aren’t having. Many readers can’t abhor infidelity, others can’t stand violent heroes/heroines, etc… Today I’m curious what stories…

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Dear reader… I’m worried.

February 23, 2020

What is AAR? It’s not a business–we don’t make any money and no one gets paid. It truly is a labor of love for all of us. (I do give…

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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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