Each year AAR features a list of staff members’ buried treasures for the past year. In last year’s blog announcing our 2009 buried treasures, Lynn described them as “the books that we really liked this year that just didn’t seem to get nearly as much attention as we thought they deserved.” While tabulating your votes…
Have you been to any book signings recently? This past month I went to a book signing for two authors at a local mystery bookstore. This time there weren’t any cupcakes or beverages (sigh), but it was a really fun event. One of the authors was a first-time published mystery author from a nearby city,…
Welcome to our new monthly feature of upcoming author book signings. I’d like to thank all of the authors who notified us of upcoming events by sending an email to aarbooksign AT gmail.com. We’re going to try and focus on events up to three months in advance, so at the bottom of this post you’ll…
Let’s get this out of the way first thing: I love to be spoiled. In fact, I frequently beg people at AAR for spoilers before I’ll take a risk on reading a book by a new-to-me author. A large part of why I read reviews is for spoilers about books. Now I’m not talking about…
In January I did a post on my efforts to look for book signings by romance authors. After my original post, several readers and authors commented that they would like to see this as a regular feature at AAR. Time, and personal obligations prevented it from happening sooner, but we’d like to give a serious…
Long ago, before Harry Potter appeared on the scene, and even before the Babysitters Club made their first appearance, young girls read about the adventures of some remarkable girl sleuths. While there were a whole host of girl sleuths, the most popular two were Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. I read, and reread, both of…
Get ready…it’s coming! Yes, we’re going to be updating the All About Romance Top 100 Romances Poll this coming October. To refresh your memory, here are the reigning Top 100. It’s been three years since we last polled for your top 100 romances in October 2007, and it’s time for an update. So, from October…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQotZg-ZkIQ Every once in awhile a thread will pop up in the forums asking readers to pick their choices for actors to play the heroes and heroines of favorite romances. Just who should play Roarke? And what about Bobby Tom Denton? And can anyone correctly portray Zhadist? Well, some readers have given up waiting for…
It’s here, the day many AAR readers and staff have been looking forward to for nearly a year. Yes, we are pleased to announce that voting begins today for AAR’s Annual Reader Poll for books published in 2009. As we announced earlier, this will be a shorter voting period than you’re used to. This year,…
I missed it. About a month ago, I receive a Facebook notice that one of my favorite authors was doing a book signing about an hour away from my home. Problem was, she was doing it at that very moment, a moment when I was getting ready to walk into a meeting at work. There…
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