Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
Romantic Intentions Quarterly’s Ten Questions for Dabney
July 7, 2018Romantic Intentions Quarterly, a new e-zine about romance, interviewed our Publisher, Dabney Grinnan, for their second issue. With their permission, we are sharing the interview. RIQ: All About Romance is one…
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Jenny Holiday on “Prickly Presenting” Heroines (and a giveaway!)
July 2, 2018I was messaging with a reader on Twitter the other day, and she used a phrase that I found delightful—and that has been stuck in my head ever since: prickly…
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Summer Lovin’… at the movies
June 30, 2018Where I live, when June sinks into July, it’s hot. Hot. Hot. Hot. On days where the temperature and the humidity are both over 90, there’s nothing I like better…
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Finding Romance in Yosemite: A Guest Post by Karen Barnett
June 15, 2018Which of these sounds more romantic to you—the lights of Times Square or the starry skies of Yosemite? The sounds of an orchestra or of a rushing waterfall? Truffles or…
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From the blank page to the shelf: Olivia Boothe talks about her journey as a romance writer
June 13, 2018My career as a writer didn’t begin like most authors. I wish I could say I wanted to become a writer since I was five years old. Or that I…
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Female Friendship And Too Many Tears: a Guest post and Giveaway by Toni Anderson
June 11, 2018I was a little worried that the heroine of my newest Romantic Suspense Cold Blooded comes across as a little overemotional at the start of the story. The readers meet…
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AAR’s Top 100 Romances: 2018
May 30, 2018Welcome to the results of the 2018 AAR Top 100 Romances Poll. This is a reader generated poll we do every five years or so. This year, we had over…
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The AAR Top Ten Romances (2018) … with a new number one!
May 28, 2018Thank you to all–the thousands of you–who voted in the AAR Top 100 Romances poll. This is a reader determined poll and we are thrilled so many participated. (All totaled,…
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Round Four of the Top 100 Romances Poll: Picking the Top Ten
May 20, 2018We had over 5000 votes in the past three rounds of the AAR Top 100 Romances Poll. From those, we have our list of our readers’ favorite one hundred romances….
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How a People-Pleaser Found Her Voice By Kristen Granata (and a giveaway!)
May 17, 2018I first started writing Collision while sitting on my couch in a sling just after shoulder surgery. I had not turned thirty yet, and in addition to the excruciating shoulder…
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It’s time to pick the Top 100 Romances! Round Three of the Poll is up!
May 10, 2018We had well over 3,000 votes in the first two rounds of this poll – wow! We knew you all were passionate about romance, but wow! We’ve now taken the…
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The Art of Love: A Guest Post by Suzette D. Harrison
May 9, 20181930S – BOOTLEGGERS, PROHIBITION AND ROMANCE The Art of Love is Suzette Harrison’s contribution to the Decades: A Journey of African-American Romance project. For readers who may be unfamiliar with…
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