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Confessions of an Anxious Writer
February 15, 2018I think I was probably always a bit of a worrier. When my first baby was born, however, the worry kicked into high gear. And when my second baby was…
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Adam and Eve sells sex toys and makes the world a better place
February 14, 2018If you want to spice up your Valentine’s Day, you can’t go wrong with Adam and Eve. We’re running this column again because we love this company… and you! In…
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AAR’s Top Picks for 2017
February 10, 2018Each year we ask our staff to share the romance, the one romance, they read this year they’d pick as their favorite. This year, they’ve picked more contemporary romance than…
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AAR picks the very best of 2016
February 9, 2018We thought we’d republish this–we’re about to release our top picks for 2017. Did you read any of these? Think we picked well? (originally published on January 4, 2017) Each…
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The Best of 2017: Dabney’s List
February 6, 2018I enjoyed reading in 2017. I read widely and much of what I read was good. So that’s a win. Of the couple hundred books I read last year, these…
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How to have a sexy and romantic Valentine’s Day… with a little help from Adam and Eve
February 6, 2018Recently, while at a talk about the business of romance, I found myself talking with a very enthusiastic retired rabbi/marriage counselor who said he thought the reason women loved romance…
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Our Bodies, Our Stories: the AAR staff talks about weight
February 1, 2018The discussion about Kristan Higgins’ Good Luck with That got AAR staffers talking about their own experiences with weight and body image. We, all women, range in age from…
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AAR talks to Kristan Higgins about her next book–yep, that one.
January 31, 2018Dabney: AAR staffers love Kristan Higgins’ forays into women’s fiction. So I was excited to read her upcoming book Good Luck with That. I liked it. A lot. It made…
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A Guest Post and a Giveaway from Scarlett Cole
January 28, 2018I am so excited to be here at All About Romance to share with you a little about my latest release, Final Siege, which is the second book in my…
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A (not grumpy) guest post and a giveaway by Nicole Helm
January 23, 2018There are two types of romance readers in the world. Readers who hear the words ‘grumpy hero’ and go on with their day, and the readers who hear ‘grumpy hero’…
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Decades: History has never been so romantic!
January 15, 2018Decades: A Journey of African American Romance by Wayne Jordan Years ago, Harlequin in its American Romance line published a 12-book series, A Century of American Romance. Each story was…
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Elizabeth Bright ponders the possible sexism of the HEA… and has a giveaway.
January 12, 2018I was a thousand feet above the ground with blood seeping from a scrape along my elbow when I finally told my close friend the secret I had been carrying…
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