Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
Coming soon…. Round Two of the 2018 Top 100 Romances Poll
April 22, 2018Round One of the 2018 Top 100 Romances poll is now closed! Thank you to the many many of you who participated! We had nearly 6,500 write-in votes, with 2400…
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Erica Taylor: “You’re a Duke, Andrew,” and How Regency is my Fan Fiction
April 22, 2018When I was in college, I wrote Harry Potter fan fiction. It’s still posted online, but please don’t try and find it. And if you do, don’t tell me you…
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Last Chance to Vote!
April 20, 2018Hundreds of you have voted and we are slowly sorting through thousands of write-ins. (Big thanks to our staff!) Round One will close on Sunday at midnight EST. If you’ve…
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Making the world a better place: A guest post by Laurie Winter
April 19, 2018One of the things I love most about reading and writing is the power of words to invoke change. Stories can inspire and move people to action. Not that every…
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It’s the new and improved 2018 AAR Top 100 Romance Poll
April 8, 2018Thanks for your patience. Our original poll didn’t, as was strongly pointed out to us on Twitter, include any books by black authors. And, once that was pointed out to…
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The Feminist Hero: A Guest Post by Landra Graf AND a fabulous giveaway
April 6, 2018Thank you to All About Romance for hosting me today. Today I want to discuss something near and dear to my heart, the feminist hero. How often we’ve read the…
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The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen by Lori Leachman
April 5, 2018It is amazing how revealing and enlightening funeral celebrations can be. Long-held secrets may finally be shared. The truth of a particular situation is told. Long-simmering resentments are aired, or…
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: A guest post and a giveaway by Susan Cliff
April 3, 2018Hello AAR! It’s release day for Navy SEAL Rescue, the second book in my Team Twelve series. This story features an Iraqi doctor heroine and a Navy SEAL/mountain climber hero….
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Decades: History has never been so romantic! A Journey of African American Romance
March 22, 2018Note: A Secret Desire by Kaia Danielle was released in February 2018. It’s the second book in Decades: A Journey of African American Romance, a series developed by award-winning author…
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Miss Kitty says There’s More to Paranormal Than Fangs and Fur
March 9, 2018Introducing Miss Kitty Hello darlings! An avid reader of mystery and women’s fiction, with a decided preference for stories with romantic elements, Miss Kitty is here to provide you with…
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Any Resemblance to Actual Persons is Purely Purposeful
March 7, 2018Open any novel, and you’ll probably see this disclaimer-This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination…
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A guest post and a giveaway from Kate Carley
March 5, 2018When was the last time you hung out with your best girlfriends? For me, it seems as if it’s been ages ago. The fact is, I tend to be a…
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