The Tropical Romance Book Club welcomes Roslyn Carrington
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The Tropical Romance Book Club welcomes Roslyn Carrington

The Tropical Romance Book Club is my project to literally expand my reading horizons by trying books by authors from and set in countries between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. After reading One Night at the Palace Hotel, set in the Philippines, and interviewing the author Bianca Mori, I shifted hemispheres to read books…

Romantic Intentions Quarterly’s Ten Questions for Dabney
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Romantic Intentions Quarterly’s Ten Questions for Dabney

Romantic Intentions Quarterly, a new e-zine about romance, interviewed our Publisher, Dabney Grinnan, for their second issue. With their permission, we are sharing the interview. RIQ: All About Romance is one of the most respected romance-related websites in the world. Can you tell us how it came to be?

The Tropical Romance Book Club featuring Bianca Mori
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The Tropical Romance Book Club featuring Bianca Mori

Welcome back to the Tropical Romance Book Club! The idea for this series is – for me, and hopefully you readers too – to explore some books which tell love stories set in places we in the Western publishing world don’t usually see much, told in the voices of people who live there. Our first…

Introducing… Minerva Spencer
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Introducing… Minerva Spencer

On Friday, I reviewed début author Minerva Spencer’s Dangerous, book one in her series, The Outcasts. I remember being a bit sceptical when the book first appeared on my radar;  I’ve become increasingly wary of historical romances touting danger and adventure over the past couple of years, as so many of them have been disappointing…

AAR talks to Kristan Higgins about her next book–yep, that one.
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AAR talks to Kristan Higgins about her next book–yep, that one.

Dabney: AAR staffers love Kristan Higgins’ forays into women’s fiction. So I was excited to read her upcoming book Good Luck with That. I liked it. A lot. It made me think hard about how America, a nation where the vast majority of us are overweight, treats “fat” people. But it quickly became clear some…

AAR’s Maggie Interviews Mary Kubica, Author of The Good Girl
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AAR’s Maggie Interviews Mary Kubica, Author of The Good Girl

This book is on sale today for 2.99 at all vendors. This was Kubica’s debut and we thought it would be fun to run this 2014 interview again! “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I…

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Japanese American?
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Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Japanese American?

Today we feature something a little different. A friend of mine, Eric Muller, has created a podcast I think is wonderful. It’s called Scapegoat Cities and features human stories behind the Japanese American Internment. I asked Eric if any of his stories featured love affairs. The most recent one, Are You Now or Have You Ever…

An interview with Jennie Melamed
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An interview with Jennie Melamed

This summer two of our reviewers reviewed Jennie Melamed’s debut novel, Gather the Daughters. In her DIK review, Kristen wrote: Gather the Daughters is a haunting tale of a society where women are controlled but children are free, and a young woman on the cusp of that transition discovers something that pulls her ideological foundations out…

Chatting with Virginia Heath… and a Giveaway
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Chatting with Virginia Heath… and a Giveaway

Back in the dim but not so distant past – more specifically, December 2016 – when I was choosing my favourite books of the year, I realised I’d been lucky enough to find no less than three new authors whose books had captivated me and turned them immediately into “must read” authors.  One of those…

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