The Tropical Romance Book Club welcomes Kiru Taye
Welcome back to the Tropical Romance Book Club, an as-regular-as-real-life-permits feature in which I explore reading and writing romance in the tropics by interviewing authors who live there.
The Vast Expanse of Romancelandia
A few months ago, I was chatting with our esteemed publisher here at AAR, Dabney, about how the books topping the best seller lists for romance at Amazon weren’t the one we were covering on the site nor were they the ones we saw being talked about on Twitter.
Coming Not So Soon #2 – The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading Later This Year!
Earlier this year, AAR staffers took a look ahead to the books being published throughout the year and selected those they were most looking forward to reading in 2019. For obvious reasons, there were more books on our list that were due out in the first half of the year, so now it’s time to…
Male fatphobia in romance novels: why does romance hate overweight men?
In all my years of romance reading, the only hero I recall who was described as overweight was Henry Tewskbury-Hampton of Carla Kelly’s delightful vintage Signet regency Miss Billings Treads the Boards. Over twenty years.
Coming Soon… The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading in July 2019
With summer in full swing (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), how many of us are looking at new release lists to see which books we want to take on holiday? AAR has some ideas for you – from the latest offering from the doyenne of historical romance, Mary Balogh, to rom-coms, fantasy, romantic suspense…
June TBR Challenge – Historical Romance
I have to admit that I loved being prompted to read a historical this month. Historicals and gothics were my first loves, but my reading habits have evolved over time, and I don’t read as many as I used to. And as frequent readers here well know, Caz is something of a historical maven, so…
AAR Loves… Modern Historicals
There’s a book you love set in 1960, but is it a modern historical? Modern historicals differ from classic contemporaries in that contemporaries were written when the setting was “now,” but to a modern historical author, the setting was “then.” If that 1960 book was written in the sixties, it’s a classic contemp. That same…
Seasoned Romance: A Guest Post by Sandra Antonelli
In one of our recent AAR Loves… posts, (AAR Loves… Seasoned Romances) we talked about romances we loved that featured ‘more mature’ protagonists, and especially heroines who were over forty. One author of such novels who’s recently appeared on our radar is Sandra Antonelli, author of the terrific In Service series, which features a forty-something…
Five Baseball Romances Worth Your Time
It’s spring, and in my world, that means it’s baseball season. I’ve loved this sport since I was wee and I will hear none of this “it’s too boring” nonsense. (I respect all opinions, of course, and you are entitled to them, even those that are wrong.)
Coming Soon… The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading in June 2019
Here we are looking ahead to what will hopefully be a summer of great reads – and judging by the books AAR staffers are looking forward to reading in June, it looks like the season is getting off to a strong start! Romantic comedies, western romances, romantic suspense and paranormals, historical romance, mysteries, contemporaries and…
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