The Best of 2017: Dabney’s List

February 6, 2018

I 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, 2018

Recently, 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, 2018

  The 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, 2018

Dabney: 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, 2018

I 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, 2018

There 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, 2018

Decades: 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, 2018

I 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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All We Want for Christmas… part two

December 21, 2017

We know. It’s tough to beat Michael Buble’s holiday list. But, beyond true love, happy families, and happy ever afters for all, there are a few other things AAR staffers…

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Historical Romance by Christy Carlyle

December 21, 2017

I relate to wallflowers in fiction. Could be because, way back in the Stranger Things era, I kind of was one. If you time traveled back to the 1980’s, you’d…

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All We Want for Christmas Is….

December 17, 2017

OK, OK, It’s not just you we love. (Although we do love you.) But AAR staffers have other things on their holiday list and we thought we’d share them! (This…

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Give Me Your Hands If We Be Friends: An Alexis Hall guest post (and giveaway!)

December 12, 2017

So let’s talk about handjobs. By which I mean, let’s ramble discursively about the problematically different weights that our culture attaches to different forms of sexual activity and how it…

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