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August TBR Challenge – Kickin’ it Old School

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn Usually when it’s old school book month at the TBR Challenge, I go waay back in time on my choices. However, as I picked through my TBR, I was…

The End of a Series by Layla Reyne

A few weeks ago, one of those Facebook reminders popped up in my feed, highlighting my tweet from last July when we announced Agents Irish and Whiskey. A year ago, I was celebrating with friends in…

Try it – You’ll Like it!

As a reader I’m often guilty of sticking with the authors or genres of romance that I’m most comfortable with.  I won’t call it a rut necessarily… but taking a close look at my reading shelves…

May/December Romances: A Guest Post and a Giveaway

Hello, everyone! Thank you to All About Romance for hosting us today! In honor of our new release, Permanent Ink, which will be released from Riptide Publishing in a few days—and because it’ll be a central…

AAR interviews the marvelous Joanna Bourne

Dabney: Jo, you know AAR and its readers are the biggest Spymaster fans on the planet. (We’ve reviewed them all at least once!) Thank you so much for chatting with us. Jo: I am so happy…

This year’s RITA winners are….

Romance Novella Winner Her Every Wish by Courtney Milan Self-published Lindsey Faber, editor Buy Now: A/BN/iB/K     Contemporary Romance: Long Winner Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan Harlequin, HQN Flo Nicoll, editor Buy Now: A/BN/iB/K  …

Jennifer Wilck on why she writes diverse characters

When it comes to reading romance, most of us are looking for escape from our everyday lives. We don’t want to deal with our work stress, politics, crazy families or our to-do lists. Personally, while I…

Coming Soon… August 2017

AAR staffers have taken a good look at the wealth of new books being published in August and decided which ones are most likely to make the biggest dents in our bank balances! Joanna Bourne is…

July TBR Challenge – Catch Up on a Series (or Not)

For this month’s challenge, we were called upon to pick a book from a series we’re behind on. One of us followed instructions and the other? Well, we at least tried to stay in the spirit…