Since 1996, All About Romance has been where readers come to swoon, to squabble, and to share the joy (and occasional outrage) of a genre that never stands still. For almost three decades, we’ve written about the books that made us laugh, sigh, roll our eyes, and, sometimes, want to throw them against the wall. In its way, AAR has become a chronicle of all that.

How we’ve stayed online has shifted over the years. Once, Amazon affiliate links kept us afloat; now they average less than ten dollars a day. What supports the site today are two things only: the donations readers choose to make and the paid placements you see on the page. To all of you who have donated—thank you. You mean the world to us.

The industry itself has also changed. Energy has moved to BookTok, to podcasts, to coordinated teams of social media influencers. It has become harder to connect directly with authors and to get the books we once regularly reviewed. It feels as if the era when publishers and authors cared about AAR’s voice has passed.

That reality makes us pause and ask: what does AAR mean to you? Would you miss the steady arrival of new reviews and columns? The chance to discover authors you might not otherwise find? The comment threads where readers hash things out together? Or is the greatest value in the long record already here in the thousands of reviews and essays that tell the story of the genre?

For nearly thirty years, AAR has been shaped by its readers. As we think about what comes next, we’d love to know your thoughts. And, again, thank you for all your support!