Even before COVID-19, I worked at home. I’d get the kids ready and to school, wave my husband off to work, walk the dog and then settle down with my laptop. Many days, around ten, I’d realize the silence was bumming me out, and I’d turn on tunes. For me, music is a basic mental health need. Every day, I listen to at least an hour, from all genres and eras. I sing in the shower, the kitchen, and while exercising. For me, musicians are akin to benevolent gods.

And yet, I haven’t read that many romances I love that feature them as leads. […]

This week an author we’ve reviewed frequently declined to discuss her latest work of women’s fiction with us. Her reason?

….AAR is not the place to discuss this book, simply because of it being called All About Romance. This book, we feel, is really mainstream….

I don’t think she’s alone in thinking the name is too freighted for where the industry would like to go. […]