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Midweek Minis: The September 2015 edition, part two
September 23, 2015Welcome to the September Midweek Minis, part two. This week Dabney, Caz, Melanie and Maggie review and rate the books they’ve recently read. There’s a novel by a Pulitzer Prize…
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Julie Anne Long on Lyon and Olivia and coming to an end in Pennyroyal Green
September 21, 2015After finishing The Legend of Lyon Redmond, I cried. I’ve read all the Pennyroyal Green books several times. What I Did for a Duke garnered the first A grade I…
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Luck Be A Lady: A Pandora’s Box
September 19, 2015Welcome to our Pandora’s Box on Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady. They call her the “Ice Queen.” Catherine Everleigh is London’s loveliest heiress, but a bitter lesson in heartbreak…
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Stop Two on the Avon Pennyroyal Green Excerpt Tour
September 18, 2015The last of Julie Anne Long’s Pennyroyal Green books, The Legend of Lyon Redmond, comes out on September 29th. AAR is, along with other romance blogs, part of Avon’s Pennyroyal Green…
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Dangerous Fantasies: A Guest Post by Jill Sorenson
September 17, 2015Hello All About Romance! Thanks so much for having me. This is a discussion post from the Motorcycle Club Heroes class I taught at RWA University in February. Trigger warning…
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My Dark Prince: A Guest Pandora’s Box
September 14, 2015Hello everyone and welcome to our monthly AAR blog column. The basic idea is we choose a book every month and have a discussion about it. We being Elisabeth Lane…
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When Fiction Gets Work Flat Out Wrong
September 11, 2015Recently, AAR’s Maggie Boyd reviewed the book Starlight on Willow Lake, and one of the reasons it received a C- from her was the unrealistic depiction of the heroine’s career….
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Midweek Minis: The September 2015 edition, part one
September 9, 2015Midweek minis! You know you missed them. This is the first one we’ve run since June and we’ve got so many reviews, we’re running half this week and half next…
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Sonali Dev talks Bollywood, Tropes, and Saris: An Author Interview
September 7, 2015One of the coolest romance related things I’ve done this year is attend a meeting of Lady Jane’s Salon in New York City. Lady Jane’s, founded in 2009, is the…
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Thoughts on the Author Interview
September 3, 2015One of the things I like best about my work at All About Romance is interviewing authors. Over the years, I’ve gotten to ask questions about books I loved or…
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Jill Sorenson Interviews Victoria Dahl: A Guest Post
September 2, 2015Today we’ve got an author to author interview. Jill Sorenson interviews Victoria Dahl. Thanks, ladies! Sorenson: Hey Victoria! Or should I call you Vicki? Thanks so much for taking the…
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Jessica Trent: Winsome or Loathsome?
August 30, 2015Welcome back to Winsome or Loathsome, the column in which AAR staffers lobby for and against controversial heroines. Today’s heroine is the leading lady of Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels,…
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