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Comfort Reads – TBR Challenge 2017

My Dearest Enemy by Connie Brockway March’s prompt for the TBR challenge is “comfort read”, which is defined as a book that uses a favourite trope or setting, or is by a favourite author.  I’ve chosen…

A newbie author on the joy and fear of writing romance.

I love romance novels. I love the mushy, tingly feeling I get when the hero and heroine kiss for the first time. I love becoming emotionally invested in the characters and their lives. I love knowing…

Long May She Reign: A Roundtable Discussion

Freya might be in the line of succession to the throne, but being in the double-digits in that line doesn’t inspire dreams of ruling. She’s dedicated herself to a life of science and logic, not of…

A guest post from Damon Suede. And a giveaway!

STRONG ROOTS: on messy nostalgia & going back home without living in the past by Damon Suede First, I want to thank All About Romance for letting me come knock around in their neck of the…

The return of the Dartmouth Brides! A guest post by Elizabeth Essex. Plus, a giveaway!

It has been said in literature that you can’t go home again, but in the age of digital publishing you most assuredly can. And I have—I am thrilled to bring you new editions of my first…

The AAR Seventeen in 17 Reading Challenge – March update

Heading into Spring – in my part of the world, anyway – here’s the chance to keep track of your reading for the  Seventeen in 17 Reading Challenge and share your thoughts on the books you…

An Interview with Rhys Bowen

Over the years, I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed a number of Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness, Molly Murphy and Constable Evans books – she really is a master of the quiet, cleverly plotted mystery.  I was especially…

Megan Crane talks about the Edge series.

From the moment I read the opening lines of Edge of Obsession, the first book in Megan Crane’s Edge series, I was hooked. A hundred years ago, or so the stories went, the great Storms came…

Refugee Heroines

Regency spy novels are chock full of French emigrés fleeing the Revolution, but more recent stories of migration, including refugees, can be a little harder to find. Here are some post-World War II stories of heroes…