Last night, Dr. Feelgood, my friend Ann and I watched The Man Who Knew Too Much. I had seen it in college and loved it. Morocco! Que Sera Sera! Jimmy and Doris! I had forgotten, however, about the scene in which, fairly early on in the film, Jimmy Stewart’s character–he’s a surgeon–forces sedatives on his…
Today’s ask is inspired by a recent New York Times article about something many readers probably don’t think much about: how libraries pay for ebooks. Several states, including Connecticut and New Jersey, are trying to pass laws that would limit how much publishers can charge libraries for digital books. The idea is to make it…
I’ve been on a damn good reading run. As usual, I’ve read a bunch of books that will come out later in the year, but, in the interest of conversation, I’ll not mention them here. I’m working my way through The New Yorker‘s collection of short stories from the past century–I’m up to 1995. Thus…
Romance has always had a complicated relationship with sex. Not with desire—that’s a given—but with how desire is handled on the page. Is it explicit? Is it suggestive? Does it unfold in detail or dissolve with a fade to black? Lately, I’ve found myself thinking about how central sex is—or isn’t—to a romance novel’s emotional…
Romance novels are all over the big and small screen. Bridgerton, Virgin River, The Hating Game, One Day, Red, White & Royal Blue—they’ve all drawn huge audiences and proved, again, what romance readers have always known: these stories can work. Their source material is rich with tension, grounded in emotion, and built around the thing…
Thank you to everyone who filled out our survey. Sixty readers responded. That number represents a small portion of AAR’s audience, but the feedback was thoughtful, detailed, and deeply engaged. Some, I will, say, seemed a skosh mean spirited which is disheartening. But almost all reflected real investment in the site, in the genre, and…
I think I do. It’s not the most common beginning to a love story, but I have seen it happen. And when it does, it deserves to be taken seriously. Love at first sight is not magic, and it is not enough on its own. But it can be the start of something real. People…
We asked readers to take a short survey about what they read, what they want, and how they use All About Romance. Sixty people responded. The goal was simple: to gather concrete, specific feedback from people who actually use the site. This summary presents the results. All numbers below are drawn directly from the data,…
Romance powers Kindle Unlimited. The genre fills the platform’s most-read lists and delivers the kind of constant engagement that makes KU financially viable. At a glance, that dominance looks like success. But I’ve been watching KU reshape romance for years now, and… I don’t like what I see. Why? Let me count the ways. To…
At All About Romance, we’ve built our reputation on honest, thoughtful engagement with the genre, but that only matters if we’re meeting the needs of the people who come here. Romance has changed, and so have readers. This survey is our way of finding out whether we’re keeping pace with that change. We want to…
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