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Chessela Helm on Readers Create: Building a Story Together
October 13, 2017Romance readers and writers are joined together in a relationship similar to characters who’ve found their happily ever after: neither partner can thrive without the other. Readers support writers by…
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Ginn Hale on When Love is Magic: Finding the M/M Fantasy Romance That’s Just Right.
October 9, 2017When it comes to the gay romance I like them best with at least a touch of magic; it can make for fascinating worlds and thrilling conflict. But sometimes it’s…
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Huge Harlequin sale
October 7, 2017This weekend only, Harlequin has put 500 of its bestsellers on sale for 1.99 each. It’s at all vendors. (Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.) The AAR staff picked…
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One Summer Night by Caridad Pinero
October 6, 2017When I’m asked to describe the idea behind One Summer Night, I say that it’s a modern day Romeo and Juliet story, but with a happier ending. It is a…
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Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Japanese American?
October 4, 2017Today we feature something a little different. A friend of mine, Eric Muller, has created a podcast I think is wonderful. It’s called Scapegoat Cities and features human stories behind the…
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An interview with Jennie Melamed
September 25, 2017This summer two of our reviewers reviewed Jennie Melamed’s debut novel, Gather the Daughters. In her DIK review, Kristen wrote: Gather the Daughters is a haunting tale of a society where…
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Sam Heughan: A Romance Hero for the Ages
September 9, 2017We’re excited for the premiere of Outlander tomorrow! Here’s a column we wrote about Sam Heughan, the lovely actor who plays Jamie Fraser. I’ve been thinking about the Golden…
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Time to reveal…the third story of SIGHT UNSEEN: Free
September 6, 2017What stories would you tell if you could? Where would your mind take you, if you let it? Five of the top voices in romance dare you to explore the…
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Jennifer Wilck on capturing time
September 4, 2017Photographers capture moments in time, whether they photograph people, events, nature or objects. Their photos evoke emotions. A baby or a puppy makes you smile. The ocean crashing against the…
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The End of a Series by Layla Reyne
August 14, 2017A few weeks ago, one of those Facebook reminders popped up in my feed, highlighting my tweet from last July when we announced Agents Irish and Whiskey. A year ago,…
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May/December Romances: A Guest Post and a Giveaway
August 4, 2017Hello, everyone! Thank you to All About Romance for hosting us today! In honor of our new release, Permanent Ink, which will be released from Riptide Publishing in a few…
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AAR interviews the marvelous Joanna Bourne
August 1, 2017Dabney: Jo, you know AAR and its readers are the biggest Spymaster fans on the planet. (We’ve reviewed them all at least once!) Thank you so much for chatting with…
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