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Queer Romance Week: A Queer Fantasy Roundup
Every Friday in October, AAR will run a guest post as part of our participation in Queer Romance Month. Today Ginn Hale, Nicole Kimberling, Astrid Amara and Langley Hyde are here to discuss queer fantasy romance. This piece is hosted by Alexis Hall. AH: So a sense I get from some readers and a lot of…
A Guest Post and Giveaway by Sheri Cobb South
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Blasts from our Past: Purple Prose Parodies
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Reflections on Reviewing Graphic Novels
If I were more organized, I’d have written a graphic novel retrospective at the one-year anniversary. But I’m not, and I didn’t, so here it is now: reflections on nearly a year and a half of graphic novel reviewing for AAR. Since starting graphic novel reviews in March 2014, I have reviewed fourteen, and Melanie…