Linnea Sinclair Archives : All About Romance

AAR Staff Top Ten Favorites: Caroline's Picks

By Lynn Spencer|2019-05-10T13:11:07-04:00July 30th, 2013|Categories: All About Romance, Caroline AAR, Romance reading|Tags: Carla Kelly, Charlotte Bronte, Jeannie Lin, jennifer crusie, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Linnea Sinclair, loretta chase, Mary Balogh, Stephanie Perkins, susan elizabeth phillips, Top Ten lists, top ten romance novels|

Everybody has had so many interesting ideas for how to choose a top ten – breaking down by genre, assuming “pocket copies” of classics, choosing only books which haven’t been listed by other bloggers – so I apologize for using yet another methodology. I’ve chosen books which were so good that I have or would recommend them to non-romance readers. These are books which, in my opinion, stand as books, enjoyable and even lovable by people who will cut them no slack for genre conventions. I hope you love them as well!

Again – Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Again is a true buried treasure: an A grade here at AAR and my personal pick for single best romance ever, and yet it isn’t even in print. Seidel transports you into the meticulously researched world of a historical soap opera called My Lady’s Chamber (think Downton Abbey, but Regency), […]

AAR Staff Top Ten Favorites – Rike's Picks

By Lynn Spencer|2019-05-10T13:10:52-04:00July 23rd, 2013|Categories: All About Romance, Rike AAR, Romance reading|Tags: Barbara Hambly, Carola Dunn, Diana Norman, Georgette Heyer, Joan Aiken, Judith Merkle Riley, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Balogh, Mary Stewart, Roberta Gellis, Top Ten lists, top ten romance novels|

All the romances listed below are true Desert Island Keepers for me, and for each of them the following holds true: Whenever I open them to reread a particular scene, I cannot put them down again, and I end up reading the whole book. Each and every time. So this list is entirely subjective, with no regard to subgenres or dates of publication – although to gain entry on this list, a romance must have been around for a few years, otherwise I won’t know whether I will reread it again … and again … and again.

The order in which I have placed the books is not according to preference, but, as far as I can remember, according to the time in which I discovered them and added them to my own personal canon. […]

Before They Were Authors

By Lynn Spencer|2017-06-23T08:31:24-04:00September 12th, 2011|Categories: Authors, Maggie AAR|Tags: Carla Kelly, Charlotte McClain, Christyne Butler, Debbie Macomber, Dorien Kelly, Eileen Dreyer, Helen Kay Dimon, Inez Kelly, J.R. Ward, Julie James, Justine Davis, Karen Rose, Karina Bliss, Kylie Brant, Laura Kinsale, Lauren Willig, linda howard, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Balogh, Merline Lovelace, Monica McCarty, Nicole Burnham, Pamela Clare, Sandra Brown, Stephanie Laurens, susan elizabeth phillips, Susan Grant, Susanna Kearsley, Tess Gerritsen|

career The recent Labor Day weekend had friends and I discussing the changing job market. Many of us had launched into second (and even third) career paths, something that certainly wasn’t expected when we initially graduated from college. This got me to thinking of others who have a secondary career path (or sometimes even just a second job!); the writers who keep me supplied in romances.

Contrary to what many in the media may think, an author does not, as Eileen Dreyer so succinctly put it, choose this path because she is “a sexually frustrated loser dressed in a robe and bunny slippers who lives in a dreary apartment with my cat and lives vicariously through my devastatingly beautiful heroines.” Most seem to choose it because it is a girlhood dream. And many, many, many of them come to writing only after having pursued […]

Free and Bargain eBooks – Blessing or Curse?

By Lynn Spencer|2017-06-23T08:31:28-04:00June 8th, 2011|Categories: E-books, Rike AAR|Tags: bargains, Carla Kelly, Colleen Gleason, ebooks, Jill Marie Landis, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Kate Allan, Linnea Sinclair, Lynne Connolly, Mary Jo Putney, Naomi Novik, Rosemary Rogers|

kindle I have caught a new addiction: I hunt the net for free and bargain eBooks. Thanks to the delightful folks at Mobileread and here at AAR Potpourri Forum, and thanks to special discounts offered by ebookstores like Fictionwise or Kobo, and by publisher sites like Harlequin, Avon or Carina, I pick up loads of books for comparatively little money. Let’s take the last two months: In April, I acquired 66 new eBooks, and altogether I paid $ 70. In May I acquired 171 new eBooks, and I paid $ 210. On average, that’s $ 1.18 per book, and considering I still paid full price for a number of them, you can see how many came completely free. Before I started to gather my numbers, I was going to write that I now bought more books than usual, but paid less for them than I had done […]

A Tribute to Linnea Sinclair and Sci-Fi Romance

By Lynn Spencer|2017-06-23T08:32:23-04:00December 4th, 2008|Categories: Authors|Tags: Linnea Sinclair|

Once a year, I pick up Linnea Sinclair’s Finders Keepers and devour it. It’s the first science fiction romance I ever read, and what an eye-opener it was! SF-wise, I come from Star Wars and Star Trek, with some Ursula K. Le Guin thrown in. I adore Leia and Han, and I enjoyed the various romances in Star Trek – to the degree that I stopped watching Deep Space Nine after they killed off Dax, much to the deep disgust of my husband. As for Ursula K. Le Guin, I don’t necessarily expect strong romances when I read her novels, which I admire tremendously, but I clearly remember how thrilled I was to find a gem of a romance in Forgiveness Day, one of the novellas in Four Ways to Forgiveness. But all in all, I had taught myself never to expect a strong romance in a […]