As we begin creating the survey we’ll use to make a new AAR Top 100 list (2024), I thought we’d begin by assessing, in a survey, what current novels on the list readers think should stay and which should go. We’ve done this survey seven times since 1998. You can see all the results as…
OK, I hate to trash another site but I found Book Riot’s article on 8 of the Most Polarizing Romance Novels Ever Written to be, um, a joke. Ravishing the Heiress? The Hating Game? The Heart Principle? The Love Hypothesis? I don’t think so. Perhaps the writer is young-ish or new to romance or unaware…
Dabney: What made you want to write a YA book? Lynn: I love that stage in life, at least on a fictional level. Real life young adulthood is so fraught and difficult and sometimes painful. But in a book, you can pull the best parts of being young and magnify them to tell the story…
AAR has given DIKs to twenty-three books in 2024. Of those, fifteen are 2024 releases. They are: Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira Convenient Vows With a Viking by Lucy Morris & Sarah Rodi At First Spite by Olivia Dade Compass and Blade by Rachel Greenlaw…
The thing about romance novels, it was always said, they had to have a happily ever after ending (or, perhaps, a happy for now ending.) Romance Writers of America still says this: Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. A Central Love Story: The main…
Here are just a few of the March releases the world is chatting about. Are any of them on your radar? If not, what is?
I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from the past three months but these same pages show up on the report for the past year. In the past three months AAR had 443,750…
AAR published its first pages in 1996, started by the brilliant Laurie Gold. Many of the early pages–although not the reviews–are lost due to incompatible software, cost, and error. We can still, however, see some of those pages at the Wayback Machine. The earliest pages they have there of AAR are from May 1998. Even…
I love second chance romances. Not the ones where people dated briefly in high school or had a youthful fling, but those stories where people fell hard out of love and now, years later, have a chance to try again. Give me a Cam and Gigi, a Tara and Ford, a Adam and Marissa, a…
The two best selling fiction works at Amazon in 2023 were Fourth Wing and Iron Flame both of which are–and I so don’t love this mashup–romantasy. Also in the top 25 was A Court of Thorn and Roses–that whole series sold a boatload. If you look at just the best-sellers in romance, romantasy ruled on…
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