Sophie Jordan: The RWA15 Interview

July 31, 2015

I interviewed Sophie Jordan at last year’s Romantic Times conference and what I remember most about the interview is how fast she said interesting things I was too slow to…

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Jennifer Ryan: The RWA15 Interview

July 30, 2015

One of my favorite things about RWA is meeting authors. Jennifer Ryan is an author new to me so I was pleased when Avon asked if I wanted to interview her….

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Sarah MacLean: The RWA15 Interview

July 29, 2015

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a historical romance writer in possession of a great wealth of talent, must be taken seriously by The Washington Post. Except, historically, the WaPo,…

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Lisa Kleypas: The RWA2015 Interview

July 27, 2015

When it comes to romance novelists, few are more storied than Lisa Kleypas. She’s been a beauty queen (Miss Massachusetts in 1985), a best-selling author (she’s written 38 books and…

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The Fabulous Dreamers at RWA

July 25, 2015

Eleanor Roosevelt said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” The 2015 Romance Writers of America conference is brimming with women–and a few men–who do…

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RWA (and AAR) is in the Big Apple!

July 20, 2015

One of the most fun parts of Romancelandia is the annual Romance Writers of America conference held each year in July. Last year it was in sweltering San Antonio and…

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A Guest Pandora’s Box: The Girl Next Door

July 10, 2015

Hello 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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The Best of 2015’s Romantic Suspense (Thus Far)

July 8, 2015

Each January the AAR Annual Reader Poll is a major event here, celebrating the best in romance published for the first time the previous year. And each year many readers…

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How To Lose Money and Annoy Romance Fans: A Story of Scribd.

July 6, 2015

About a year ago, I tried the free trial offered by eBook subscription service Scribd. The number and variety of titles were astonishing, and there were books from both major…

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Girls in the Game

July 3, 2015

In honor of the FIFA Women’s World Cup I thought I’d write about some of my favorite romances starring female athletes. It’s not a huge subgenre (certainly not in comparison…

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Thank You, My Friend

July 1, 2015

I was born in 1961. I grew up in a time and place where sex, drugs, and rock and roll were things all the cool kids did. So was psychoanalysis….

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The Audiobook of Beyond the Sunrise is a DIK!

June 29, 2015

Mary Balogh’s 1992 novel Beyond the Sunrise boasts a storyline quite unlike those found in the other books of hers I’ve read in that it’s mostly plot, rather than character driven….

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