Blog Archive

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

March brings another lot of exciting new releases, and as usual, AAR staffers have chosen the books they’re most looking forward to reading over the next few weeks.  We’ve a fairly broad range of titles for…

AAR Loves… Historical Romances starring Scientist Heroines

From Mary Anning to Lise Meitner, from Caroline Herschel to Katherine Johnson, history is full of brilliant women in STEM. Historical romances should be, too! If you’re seeking geologists, biologists, mathematicians, botanists, and more, AAR Loves…

Happy Valentine’s Day. We’re giving away a box of books!

It’s Valentine’s Day, that 24 hours each year the world celebrates romantic love. AAR’s a big fan of romantic love–we’ve been writing about it and celebrating it since the early 90s. Over the years, we’ve published…

All Good Things Must Come to an End: Dukes are Forever – the grand finale to Bec McMaster’s London Steampunk series

A compromising situation forced him into marriage. But has his wife been working for the enemy all along? In a steam-fuelled world where vampires once ruled the aristocracy, a dangerous conspiracy threatens to topple the queen,…

The Tropical Romance Book Club: Introducing Lydia San Andres

Welcome back to the Tropical Romance Book Club, a reading project to experience love around the world as written by local authors. In case you’d like to catch up, previous featured authors have been:

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen talk about writing together

A few weeks back, AAR staffer Anne Marble stumbled across the news – via a Facebook post! – that bestselling authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen were to appear at her local library in Howard County.…

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…

An Interview with Julie Anne Long… and a giveaway!

Readers of historical romance are thrilled that Julie Anne Long, after a successful stream of contemporary romance novels, has returned to writing HR. Lady Derring Takes A Lover, due out on February 26th, is the first…

Pick up a Pen! by Holly Bush (with a giveaway)

I’ve been writing for about thirty years on and off and before that I wrote a little for pleasure in high school and college when I wasn’t writing papers for classes. I’ve written some long stories,…