I Hate You, I Hate You, I Love You: The Enemies-to-Lovers Trope One of the hottest tropes across so many sub-genres of romance is the enemies-to-lovers storyline. You know the deal: couple meets, instant dislike, much…
The thing about romance novels, it was always said, they had to have a happily ever after ending (or, perhaps, a happy for now ending.) Romance Writers of America still says this: Two basic elements comprise…
Here are just a few of the March releases the world is chatting about. Are any of them on your radar? If not, what is?
I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from the past three months but these…
AAR published its first pages in 1996, started by the brilliant Laurie Gold. Many of the early pages–although not the reviews–are lost due to incompatible software, cost, and error. We can still, however, see some of…
I love second chance romances. Not the ones where people dated briefly in high school or had a youthful fling, but those stories where people fell hard out of love and now, years later, have a…
The two best selling fiction works at Amazon in 2023 were Fourth Wing and Iron Flame both of which are–and I so don’t love this mashup–romantasy. Also in the top 25 was A Court of Thorn…