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Eagerly Awaited September Books

Putting together a list of anticipated September books rather snuck up on me. It’s still close to 100 degrees outside every day where I live, and it doesn’t feel like summer will ever end. Actually, I’m…

Midweek Minis – Late Summer edition

In another of our series of mini-reviews, AAR staffers Keira, Maria Rose, Rike and Sara share their thoughts about some of their recent reads.  If you’ve read any of them, what did you think?  And please…

Nico Rosso on Food and Writing Romance

Thanks for having me today, AAR! Let’s talk about food. I’m always thinking about it. When my wife, Zoe Archer (AKA Eva Leigh), and I are having breakfast, we’re planning lunch. Lunch leads to dinner. After…

Debbie Macomber and Me

One of the many things I love about “romance” as a genre is how varied the definition of it is. For some readers who identify as “romance readers”, it’s all about billionaires, or motorcycle clubs, or…

TBR Challenge 2016 – Kickin’ It Old School

 August’s TBR Challenge prompt is “Kickin’ it old-school” and it’s a prompt I always enjoy as it gives me the opportunity to pick something from the TBR Pile of Doom, which still looms large next to…

Publishing FIVE revised Special Title Lists

A long time ago in a far-off galaxy … you nominated some books for five of AAR’s Special Titles Listings. And then … nothing. Several months of nothing, and then more than a year. We apologize…

Susanna Craig: A Guest Blog

“I’m an English professor, and I read (and write) romance novels.” Although I’m certainly not the first to make such a confession, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t make me a little nervous. Attitudes…

The New Age of the Series – A Reader Rant

Am I crazy but does it feel like every romance novel published today is a part of a series? Almost every new book I pick up has a number after its title. Is the standalone, single…

In Love with Digital People: A Guest Post by Sandra Schwab

Thank you, AAR, for inviting me to talk a little bit about my process of creating covers with digital models! My digital adventures started in December 2014, and I entirely blame Twitter for the whole thing.…