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Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
All About the Money: A Guest Post by Santino Hassell
May 2, 2017I have a complicated relationship with wealth. Instead of being intrigued by characters who are cool or sexy or likeable because of their money, power, and social status, I love…
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The Neverland of Vermont: A Guest Post by Sonja Yoerg
April 30, 2017When I tell people I grew up in Vermont, they often smile dreamily, as if I had claimed Neverland as my home state. In a sense, they are right. My…
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Blame your family! A guest post and a giveaway by Caroline Warfield
April 14, 2017Family—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, 2017In 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, 2017As 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, 2017In 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, 2017Hello 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, 2017STRONG 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, 2017It 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, 2017From 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, 2017One 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, 2017Hello, 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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