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Life and Death: It’s No Twilight
ByDabney Grinnan December 11, 2015

The tenth anniversary edition of Twilight arrived on the shelves several months ago containing the bonus feature of Life and Death, a gender swap retelling of Twilight. The tales are identical aside from the gender swap and an expedited ending. It’s odd to have such divergent feelings after reading essentially the same book but those…

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Writing in Pieces: A Guest Post (and a giveaway) from J.R Gray
ByDabney Grinnan February 5, 2016

Writing is a process. A deeply personal process. As artists who weave words, we all have our own variation of this process. I write in pieces. I used to think I was insane for writing the way I do, taking fragments of a whole, that come to me out of order most of the time,…

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Sarah Morgan’s Maybe This Christmas: a Pandora’s Box
ByDabney Grinnan October 22, 2014

Sarah 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- here at AAR. Today Dabney and Haley discuss the novel.

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Midweek Minis: the RITAs, Part Two
ByDabney Grinnan April 22, 2015

The RITA nominees, the highest awards of distinction in romance fiction, are out. (The entire list is here.) We’ve reviewed many of the books nominated this year. (A list of all of our reviews with links is at the end of this post.) We’ve had a great response to our mini-reviews so I thought it would…

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A New Modesty Code for Romance
ByDabney Grinnan February 18, 2026July 6, 2026

Something has changed at Amazon, and it is not good.* Over the past several weeks, many romance titles have begun returning the same message in Amazon’s SiteStripe interface: This product is excluded from the Amazon Associates Program.** Please link to a related product or category instead. The books remain available for purchase across all formats….

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A Guest Pandora’s Box: Ginn Hale’s Lord of White Hell
ByDabney Grinnan June 12, 2015

Hello everyone and welcome to our monthly AAR blog column. The basic idea is we choose a book every month and have a discussion about it. We being Elisabeth Lane (of Cooking Up Romance), a long-time romance reader who now creates recipes inspired by books and then blogs about it, and Alexis Hall (author of, most…

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