Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
I’m Telling Bad Boys Bye-Bye
November 11, 2014It’s the eternal question, right? What do women want? I sure as hell don’t know. In fact, I doubt there’s a consensus from females writ large on much of anything….
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Talking with Joanna Bourne
November 5, 2014Dabney: Thank you so much for talking with me. I am an unabashed Joanna Bourne fan girl and have been ever since I first read The Spymaster’s Lady. AAR readers have loved…
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Queer Romance Month and Me
October 29, 2014What, really, does a straight married woman have to say about Queer Romance Month? Not much that might not come out sounding bumbling or privileged or flat out clueless, right? I’ve…
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Sarah Morgan’s Maybe This Christmas: a Pandora’s Box
October 22, 2014Sarah Morgan’s Maybe This Christmas is the third in her O’Neil Brothers series. The first two (Sleigh Bells in the Snow and Suddenly Last Summer) received a B+ and an A-…
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Actually, I Prefer the Film
October 8, 2014It’s rare I go to the movies. Rarer still I head for theater the day a film releases. And yet, that’s just what I did last week when David Fincher’s…
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Interviewing Jaci Burton
September 29, 2014Author Jaci Burton has written over forty-five novels and is contracted to write ten more. She writes in multiple genres, from erotic romance to romantic suspense to contemporary romance. She has won the RT…
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Dirty Ideas: Why Motorcycle Clubs?
September 26, 2014This is a guest post from author Jill Sorenson. Her first motorcycle club romance Riding Dirty comes out on October 1st. Jill is giving away a copy of Riding Dirty…
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Molly O’Keefe talks about winning the RITA while not wearing shoes, the Boys of Bishop, her love for The West Wing, AND gives away three books.
September 24, 2014Molly O’Keefe won the RITA this year for her contemporary novel Crazy Thing Called Love. Her latest romance, Indecent Proposal, comes out at the end of this month. I have…
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Yay! We’ve got an exclusive Audiblebook clip from Virginia Kantra’s Carolina Blues and a giveaway!
September 22, 2014We had a lovely chat with Virginia Kantra last week… and Audible noticed. They so liked our interview they featured it on their Romance page this past weekend.
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Confessions of a Settings Junkie
September 15, 2014I feel like I have been waiting on Connie Brockway’s The Songbird’s Seduction forever even though the truth is I have only had it on order since early June. I’m not typically…
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Chatting with Virginia Kantra about her Dare Island series
September 12, 2014Carolina Blues, the fourth book in Virginia Kantra’s appealing Dare Island series comes out next month. Today, Virginia talks with AAR about heroes, sex scenes, and happy endings. Virginia is offering…
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You Never Forget Your First
September 10, 2014Here at All About Romance, our team of reviewers is dedicated to the romance genre. We read, review, and keep up with the goings on of all things romance. We’ve…
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