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Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
31 Awesome Queer Romances You Should Read
October 30, 2015I owe Alexis Hall a huge favor. I thought it would be lovley if we ended our Queer Romance Month Friday series with a list of LGBTQ+ books everyone should read. I also had…
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Someday My Print Will Come Back
October 28, 2015I bought my first eBook in 1999. Back then, eBook publishing was like a frontier. Most publishers e-mailed the books to you, and the process wasn’t automated, so if you…
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Why You Can’t Set a Wax Play Scene on Shabbos
October 26, 2015And other things I learned while writing a BDSM erotic romance set in an Orthodox Jewish Community A Guest Post by Tamsen Parker (Ms. Parker is giving away a signed…
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On “Say Yes to the Dress”
October 25, 2015I’ve watched almost no reality TV. I watched the finals of the first four seasons of American Idol, some scenes from the two Survivor seasons my niece’s husband was on, and the episodes…
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Queer Romance: Where Do We Go From Here?
October 23, 2015For our final QRM-themed piece for the AAR blog, Alexis Hall is joined by Roan Parrish, EE Ottoman and Santino Hassell. They’re going to be talk about where they think the genre is…
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Revel with a Cause: The Outback Bachelor Ball
October 19, 2015When Karina Bliss, Joan Kilby and Sarah Mayberry got together to write a series of linked novellas, they knew they wanted to do something in the Outback, and they knew…
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Queer Romance Week: A Queer Fantasy Roundup
October 16, 2015Every Friday in October, AAR will run a guest post as part of our participation in Queer Romance Month. Today Ginn Hale, Nicole Kimberling, Astrid Amara and Langley Hyde are here to…
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When Names Are a No-Go
October 12, 2015A few years ago I picked up a well-reviewed historical – I can’t remember the title anymore but I think it was a Western – and DNFed the book. There…
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Queer Historical Romance: A Roundtable
October 9, 2015In celebration of Queer Romance Month, Joanna Chambers, Alex Beecroft and KJ Charles are here to discuss queer historical romance. KJC: So, let’s kick off with a thing I see…
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Edward is Edythe and Bella is Beau: Discuss
October 6, 2015On Tuesday, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Twilight, author Stephenie Meyer released a version of the book with 400 pages of new content. Twilight Reimagined: Life and Death…
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A Queer Romance Month Post: Looking at Queer New Adult
October 2, 2015Every Friday in October, AAR will run a guest post as part of our participation in Queer Romance Month. Today’s is hosted by queer romance author Santino Hassell. New Adult is one of…
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Twenty years ago, Colin Firth Jumped Into a Lake
September 30, 2015Pride and Prejudice turns twenty this year. Not that Pride and Prejudice, the other one. Colin Firth Darcy Pride and Prejudice. Colin Firth Darcy gazing at Jennifer Ehle Lizzy playing the piano Pride…
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