Juliana Stone talks about bad boys, rock and roll, and why she names her Thanksgiving turkey

February 14, 2014

Juliana, I enjoyed The Bad Boys of Crystal Lake. Your series features three men who have been friends since they were kids and who have all come back to Crystal Lake,…

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My Favorite Mysteries of 2013

February 12, 2014

Next Monday – February 17 – we will announce the results of All About Romance’s Annual Reader Poll for the best romance novels published in 2013. Working on the poll…

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Random Thoughts on Nonfiction Reading

February 10, 2014

I admit it: I’m a genre fiction reader. Nonfiction reads rarely find their way on to my TBR. Last year only 5% of my reading was nonfiction. The majority of…

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Romance was reviewed in the NYT…. Let’s make it happen again!

February 8, 2014

In December I interviewed historical romance author Sarah MacLean. I had contacted her because of a letter she had sent to the New York Times taking them to task for…

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No, I’m not shipping this romance

February 5, 2014

When I heard CBS was doing a modern day Sherlock Holmes set in New York, my response was pure, unmitigated outrage. Yes, I tried to be moderate and keep an…

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The SA in NA

January 31, 2014

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Opening the Young Adult Special Titles List

January 29, 2014

Unique among AAR’s Special Titles Listings, the YA list originally depended on the taste of three readers only. Three teenagers with ties to AAR listed their favorite books – both…

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Tessa Dare releases her latest and Harper Collins offers a give-a-way

January 28, 2014

Tessa Dare, a perennial favorite here at AAR, releases her latest novel, Romancing the Duke, today.

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The Top Top picks of 2013

January 27, 2014

On Friday we shared the books AAR staffers chose as their favorite book of 2013. The list is varied with romances from almost every genre selected by at least one…

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American Indians, Amazing Animals, Time Travel

January 22, 2014

In December we opened up three Special Title Lists for new submissions: the American Indian list, Amazing Animals, and Time Travel. We’ll have to be honest, we didn’t really expect…

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Caroline Linden on historical erotica and the sexual mores of an earlier era

January 20, 2014

One of my favorite books of 2013 is Caroline Linden’s Love and Other Scandals. It’s the first in a series in which young women discover an erotic serial called 50…

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Guest column: Historical romance author Rose Lerner talks about the history behind her Jewish hero

January 19, 2014

Ash, the hero of my Regency romance True Pretenses, is a Jewish con artist who grew up in a London rookery and has been passing as a Gentile for a…

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