What We’ve Been Thinking About

Essays & Musings

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

Blame your family! A guest post and a giveaway by Caroline Warfield

April 14, 2017

Family—can’t live with them, can’t kill them. It seems to me that family is the cradle of our profoundest emotions: love, tenderness, jealousy, anger, envy, and, yes, hate. No one…

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Rereading Elizabeth Essex’s Dartmouth Brides

April 8, 2017

In 2011, I read the first of Elizabeth Essex’s Dartmouth Brides books, The Pursuit of Pleasure. This is Ms. Essex’s debut novel and, especially for a first book, quite good. In…

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A DIKlassic Bookclub: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

April 6, 2017

As part of our site reboot, we’ve been publishing DIKLassic reviews. These are books that, in the past (at least five years), were DIKs–this means they got an A-, an…

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Paige Tyler on unique characters. Plus, a giveaway!

March 20, 2017

In Her True Match, the feline-shifter heroine Dreya has always felt like a “freak.” She’s surprised—and relieved—when she learns that there are others just like her. There are lots of…

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Susan Sands: A Guest Post and a Giveaway

March 17, 2017

Hello Friends, I’m thrilled to be a guest today on All About Romance. Thanks to Dabney for inviting me! The third novel in my Alabama series, Forever, Alabama, is due…

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A guest post from Damon Suede. And a giveaway!

March 8, 2017

STRONG ROOTS: on messy nostalgia & going back home without living in the past by Damon Suede First, I want to thank All About Romance for letting me come knock…

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The return of the Dartmouth Brides! A guest post by Elizabeth Essex. Plus, a giveaway!

March 6, 2017

It has been said in literature that you can’t go home again, but in the age of digital publishing you most assuredly can. And I have—I am thrilled to bring…

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Megan Crane talks about the Edge series. And there’s a giveaway!

February 24, 2017

From the moment I read the opening lines of Edge of Obsession, the first book in Megan Crane’s Edge series, I was hooked. A hundred years ago, or so the…

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Why you don’t have to like sports to love them (or sports romance!) by Sara Rider

February 18, 2017

One of my earliest childhood sports memories is the day I found out my dad was taking my brother to watch the Winnipeg Jets. Without me. To say I was…

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Writing about love in a world ravaged by zombies: A guest post by Lee Sutherland

February 16, 2017

Hello, AAR! I’m here today to talk about romance, the apocalypse, and what it’s like to be a male writing in a field dominated and consumed by women. It’s an…

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Scenes that make us swoon…. (Part Two)

February 14, 2017

I asked the AAR staff to share the scenes from novels they found the most romantic. And, boy, did they come up with some exquisite scenes. Be prepared to swoon…….

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Scenes that make us swoon…. (Part One)

February 14, 2017

I asked the AAR staff to share the scenes from novels they found the most romantic. And, boy, did they come up with some exquisite scenes. Be prepared to swoon…….