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Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
An AAR Gift Guide: Children and YA
December 18, 2015Following on from our Gift Guide for lovers of Romantic Mysteries, we’re now presenting some ideas for you if you are going to give books as gifts to Children and…
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Mind your language! A Guest Post by KJ Charles
December 14, 2015One of the joys, or not, of writing historical romance is the language choices it requires. Obviously, if you’re writing an Anglo-Saxon romance, you’re going to have to go for…
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Life and Death: It’s No Twilight
December 11, 2015The tenth anniversary edition of Twilight arrived on the shelves several months ago containing the bonus feature of Life and Death, a gender swap retelling of Twilight. The tales are…
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An AAR Gift Guide: Science Fiction
December 9, 2015AAR is running a series of blog posts on books we love which you might want to give as gifts. These books may be recent or classic, reviewed or unreviewed,…
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Funniest Romance & Biggest Tearjerker Romance of 2015 So Far Are…
December 4, 2015Next up in our series of posts leading up to the Annual Poll are romances in two categories that touch readers’ emotions: romances that make you laugh – Funniest Romance…
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An AAR Gift Guide: Romantic Mysteries
December 2, 2015AAR is running a series of blog posts on books we love which you might want to give as gifts. These books may be recent or classic, reviewed or unreviewed,…
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Best Contemporary Romance of 2015 So Far Is……..
November 29, 2015Next up in our series of posts leading up to the Annual Poll for the best in romance published in 2015 is the Best Contemporary Romance category. Julie James has…
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Best Debut Romance Author of 2015 So Far Is……..
November 23, 2015I’ll admit it; I tend to shy away from new authors. Give me a choice between a comfort read and an unknown quantity and I’ll almost always choose the comfort…
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Santa Baby, Bring Me a Love Story
November 20, 2015I have always been a sucker for a holiday romance. There’s something about the holidays that allow me to access the over-the-top, gushily sentimental core of my heart that is…
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Meatworks: A Guest Pandora’s Box
November 15, 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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It’s a VERY big sale at Harlequin!
November 13, 2015Like many other romance fans, I’d heard about the big Harlequin sale that started on November 10. Harlequin has been selling eBook editions for 10 years. They’re celebrating by having…
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Our November Newsletter is online!
November 11, 2015Welcome to November! We usually only send out our monthly newsletter but we thought we’d start posting it here as well. AAR’s Anne Marble puts these together every month! Enjoy! (Wanna sign…
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