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Guest column: Historical romance author Rose Lerner talks about the history behind her Jewish hero
Ash, the hero of my Regency romance True Pretenses, is a Jewish con artist who grew up in a London rookery and has been passing as a Gentile for a number of years. The heroine Lydia…
The Countess Conspiracy: a Pandora’s Box
Today, Mary and Dabney discuss (and disagree about) Courtney Milan’s The Countess Conspiracy.
Eagerly Awaited February Books
As we get closer to time for February releases, I think it’s fair to say that more than a few of us are curious to see what Tessa Dare’s new historical romance series holds for readers.…
Getting Started on Those 2014 TBR Challenges!
Once again, I’m participating in the multi-blog TBR Challenge but this year we’re doing things a little differently here on the blog as a couple of my fellow AAR reviewers are working on reading challenges, too.…
It’s time for the annual AAR Reader Poll!
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year may be a song about the Christmas season and, in the last many years, that day when kids finally go back to school after summer break, but it…
Where do you keep your romances?
I lived a transitory, small-apartment life for a number of years, and my romance keepers lived in the spare room of my mother’s house. Now I’m living for the first time in my own home, and…
How to write a romance… or not
Since I learned there was such a thing as a How to Write book, I’ve loved those suckers. Even the books that were too basic for me offered something — new advice, a fresh perspective, inspiration…