The Wayback on Wednesday: All About Romance Celebrates PRIDE 2018
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The Wayback on Wednesday: All About Romance Celebrates PRIDE 2018

LBGTQ+ PRIDE is celebrated in many countries throughout the world in June, and here at AAR, we’re doing our bit to celebrate the idea that Love is Love is Love and that romance is for everyone by choosing our favourite queer fiction and queer romances. We could all have chosen more than one (or two!),…

Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading in September 2019
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Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading in September 2019

Difficult to believe as it is, we’re heading into tbe back-end of the year now, as Autumn/Fall will shortly be upon us and we’ll be looking ahead to the books we want to curl up with on those long winter evenings! Before that, though, we’ve got the final days and weeks of summer to look…

Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in May 2019
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Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in May 2019

There are a lot of romances we’re eager to read coming out in May, but there’s one real stand-out that’s sure to make a big splash, Helen Hoang’s follow-up to her hugely successful 2018 début, The Kiss Quotient. In The Bride Test, she takes the arranged marriage trope out for a spin and we’re sure…

Coming in 2019 – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading This Year!
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Coming in 2019 – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading This Year!

Well, we’ve already chosen the books we’re most looking forward to reading in January and February 2019, and we’ll continue to update you with our regular monthly look at what’s Coming Soon… but what about what’s Coming Not So Soon?  AAR staffers have looked through the new release lists for the next few months and…

Can we be BFFs? Or, ah, can I be you? (the TV version)
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Can we be BFFs? Or, ah, can I be you? (the TV version)

Jenna’s recent Laminate Freebie List post started a fair bit of discussion on the site and behind the scenes at AAR, and we began to discuss the possibility of making some other lists, and talking about what we’d do if we did.  In the end, we’ve rolled two of our most popular suggestions into one,…

AAR Celebrates Pride 2018 – Part Two
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AAR Celebrates Pride 2018 – Part Two

We’re rounding out Pride Month with another selection of our favourite queer love stories, all of them celebrating the truth that Love is Love is Love. And as ever, we’d love to hear from you about your favourites, so please drop by and tell us about the awesome queer romances YOU love. BJ: Glitterland by…

“I couldn’t put it down…”  What was YOUR last unputdownable read?
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“I couldn’t put it down…” What was YOUR last unputdownable read?

The unputdownable read…  it’s kind of the holy grail of books, isn’t it? That book that hooks you in on the first page and doesn’t let you go until the last; the book you enjoy so much that you can’t stop turning the pages even as you wish you could read more slowly because you…

Fond First Times… Our first experiences with romance novels, part two
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Fond First Times… Our first experiences with romance novels, part two

In part two of our reminiscences about our first experiences with romance novels, AAR staffers are here to share more of our stories about our first romances, when we read them, who we read them with and what, ultimately, made us fall in love with the genre.

Congratulations to the 2018 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists!
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Congratulations to the 2018 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists!

March is an exciting month for romance writers, as it’s when the Romance Writers of America announces their finalists in the RITA and Golden Heart contests for published books and unpublished manuscripts, respectively, submitted in the fall of the previous year. Excitement builds up over the day of the announcement as writers get calls from the RWA…

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