What We’ve Been Thinking About

Essays & Musings

Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.

Chatting with Sherry Thomas at #RWA18

July 23, 2018

The best part of RWA’s annual conference is, for us, getting to talk with authors we love. And we love Sherry Thomas. (If you haven’t been reading her, you need…

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Why We Need Romance by Leslie Hachtel

July 16, 2018

Life is definitely getting harder. The news is more terrible everyday: children are killing children, Mother Nature is angry and more and more people are suffering. Sometimes just getting through…

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What, why and how do you read? A survey by M.K. Tod

July 14, 2018

Readers and writers – a symbiotic relationship. Ideas spark writers to create stories and build worlds and characters for readers’ consumption. Readers add imagination and thought to interpret those stories,…

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Romantic Intentions Quarterly’s Ten Questions for Dabney

July 7, 2018

Romantic 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, 2018

I 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, 2018

Where 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, 2018

Which 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, 2018

My 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, 2018

I 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, 2018

Welcome 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, 2018

Thank 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, 2018

We 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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