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Speaking of Audiobooks: Top Ten Listens of 2014

Lord of Scoundrels lgIt’s good news all the way around when looking back at romance audiobooks in 2014. The selections were more diverse than ever and we saw a significant rise in overall quality as well. Despite my Dreaded Burnout of 2014, I listened to approximately 80 audiobooks last year. But wait, that should be qualified a bit – I attempted to listen to that number although I officially tagged a number of those DNFs. I only sporadically kept records on my Goodreads shelf which caused a good amount of confusion when I started putting together this list a few weeks ago. New Year’s Resolution #5 – Keep up records at Goodreads.

The Top Ten Romance Listens

1. Lord of Scoundrels – Loretta Chase

Narrated by Kate Reading

Romance audio fans responded with great delight to the audio release of Lord of Scoundrels. It had been at the top of […]

By |2017-06-23T08:30:24-04:00January 5th, 2015|Categories: audio books, Best of List, Lea Hensley|Tags: AAR Annual Readers Poll, Amy Harmon, Anna Fields, Audiobooks, Ilona Andrews, Jojo Moyes, Jonathan Davis, Julie James, Karen Robards, Karen White, Katie Reus, Laura Kinsale, Lea Hensley, loretta chase, Melanie Ewbank, Patrick Lawlor, Renee Raudman, Sandra Brown, Sophie Eastlake, speaking of audiobooks, Suzanne Brockmann, tavia gilbert, Top Ten Listens|20 Comments
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Speaking of Audiobooks: Older Romance Gems I Discovered through Listening

Kiss of the HighlanderWhen I started writing the Speaking of Audiobooks column in 2009, romance listening was still a rather new, if not unheard of, experience for the majority of romance fans. We may have heard of audiobooks, and even tried one, but romance? Possibly we had listened to an instructional audiobook or a children’s book when vacationing with the family but that was it.

Although I know there are huge numbers of yet-to-be-converted romance audio fans out there, audiobook listening is definitely on the rise. The selection, ease of access through downloads, and the affordability of today’s audiobooks brings in new audio listeners every day. […]

By |2017-06-23T08:30:25-04:00November 3rd, 2014|Categories: audio books, Lea Hensley|Tags: Audiobooks, Lea Hensley, Sandra Brown, speaking of audiobooks|2 Comments
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Speaking of Audiobooks: Top Ten 2013 Romance Listens

Kinsale-FlowersfromtheStorm-shadowAlthough we’re seeing the audio romance section over at Audible brimming with unknown authors and narrators these days, it’s an indication that romance audiobooks are more popular than ever and the number of quality titles is on the rise as well. 2013 offered the best selection yet of highly entertaining, exceptionally written and performed audiobooks. My Top Ten List could easily number twenty-five.

When choosing the year’s Top Ten romance titles, it goes without saying that the author’s writing and the narrator’s performance are the most influential factors. With the proliferation of home studios, production plays a bigger role each year as those who take the time to give us a seamless listen without awkward corrections, noisy intakes of breath, or poor sound quality deserve recognition as well. And although all of these elements were taken into consideration when making my selections, there’s another dynamic that sometimes comes into play and overrides […]

By |2017-06-23T08:30:33-04:00January 6th, 2014|Categories: audio books, Lea Hensley|Tags: Audiobooks, Elizabeth Hoyt, Jeaniene Frost, Julie James, Laura Kinsale, Lea Hensley, linda howard, Pamela Clare, Patricia Ryan, romance audiobooks, Sandra Brown, Sherry Thomas, speaking of audiobooks|4 Comments
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Speaking of Audiobooks: November 2013 Audio News

DeadlineWe have general romance audio news today as well as an announcement from AAR. We also have something new for Speaking of Audiobooks – sound clips from several promising audios.

Speaking of Audiobooks Review News

You know all those audiobook reviews you have seen in the Speaking of Audiobooks columns through the years? There are hundreds and we have mourned the inability to search or even find a listing of those reviews we know are there but are seemingly just out of our reach. Oh, they are all still there, tucked away in a Speaking of Audiobooks column somewhere. Well, the good news is – things are a-changing.

Slowly but surely, we are moving those audio reviews into AAR’s review database. As with any review of a print book, you can now go into the Power Search and search by author or title. You can also choose to view our entire selection of […]

By |2017-06-23T08:30:35-04:00November 4th, 2013|Categories: audio books, Lea Hensley|Tags: Audiobooks, connie brockway, Laura Kinsale, Lea Hensley, linda howard, Nora Roberts, Pamela Clare, romance audio books, Sandra Brown, speaking of audiobooks, Suzanne Enoch|16 Comments
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AAR Staff Top Ten Favorites – Haley's Picks

texasdestiny When I sat down to put this list together, I thought this would really be a piece of cake. Well, I was wrong. It turns out, I had more like a top twentysomething list and narrowing it down was not all that easy. Another thing I noticed is that so many of the books represented were some of the very first I ever read. My love of the romance genre began when I was a pre-teen and started pilfering books off my mother’s bookshelf. I knew she wouldn’t be happy with me reading them because I was so young, so I hid them under my bed or in the window seat. I got caught once while reading a book I loved, but now I can’t remember the title, and was told I was forbidden to read the romances. That didn’t stop me. I only grew more and more sneaky. […]

By Lynn Spencer|2019-05-10T13:11:59-04:00August 20th, 2013|Categories: All About Romance, Haley AAR, Romance reading|Tags: All About Romance, Elizabeth Hoyt, Erin McCarthy, Jane Graves, Jodi Thomas, Johanna Lindsey, LaVyrle Spencer, Lorraine Heath, Nora Roberts, Rachel Gibson, Sandra Brown, Top Ten lists, top ten romance novels|7 Comments
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Before They Were Authors

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 another career […]

By Lynn Spencer|2017-06-23T08:31:24-04:00September 12th, 2011|Categories: Authors, Maggie AAR|Tags: All About Romance, 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|12 Comments
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