For years, All About Romance ran a very amusing Purple Prose Parody Contest. We thought we’d share some of the entries. These two are culled from the 1999 Contest. from Carol Taylor (written as an homage to Dara Joy) Knight of a Thousand Volts Cherry was simply following directions on how to test the batteries by pressing…
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 excluding romance authors and their works from a “Sex” issue published in the Sunday Book Review.
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….
I’m a romance reader (and writer) who loves books of all levels of heat. If it’s got a romance tag on it, I’ll read it, everything from Christian fiction to intense BDSM erotica. With my latest historical fiction novel, super explicit sex scenes weren’t appropriate for the feel of the story, though there is sex, even in the…
AAR feels old! We can’t believe many of us first read Loretta Chase’s classic romance Lord of Scoundrels 20 years ago! We first reviewed the historical romance in 1997. The review was written by a reader who gave the book an A. In the review, she wrote: One of the greatest thrills about reading, for…
Hello again, everyone! It’s our round-up of some of what we’ve been doing. We’ve got lots and lots of Best of 2015 lists! And fresh content for you to enjoy. Here’s what’s new at AAR: The AAR Annual Readers’ Poll Annual Poll Update: It’s a Runoff! For the first time, we are unable to name a…
