originally published March 1, 2001

(many of the links in this post have been lost to history)

To all the winners in our fifth annual readers’ poll, congratulations and continued success! With nearly 30 categories polled, the AAR Reader Awards ballot is quite comprehensive; readers must study the ballot and be prepared with details on titles, characters, and definitions in order to participate. Turnout far exceeded expectations for the 22 positive and 6 negative categories polled. […]

(originally published in August of 1997)

We asked author Patricia Gaffney, author of the Wyckerley trilogy and the upcoming Wild at Heart for her thoughts on reader criticism. Here is what she had to say:

Show me a writer who says she enjoys reader criticism, and I’ll show you somebody whose pants are on fire. Don’t believe her! We all hate it, no matter how “constructive” the criticism might be. […]

Adele Ashworth on her Virgin Widow

I’ve been reading romance novels for a long time. A long time. Now, it’s true that for the first twenty-five years or so of my personal romance reading, there wasn’t any place for discussion of what I liked and disliked as there is now on the Internet. I simply read what was available to me and accepted the stories for what they were. […]

In more than one of my columns, I’ve talked about how broadly the definition of a romance novel should be extended. Some romances read to me like historical, epic fiction, others as suspense novels with some romance thrown in for good measure. In some cases the author is truly trying to write a romance but separates the lead characters for so much of the book that it leaves me wanting. […]

published on June 9th, 2009

Three of AAR’s publishers are buzzing – literally – about Bound by Your Touch, Meredith Duran’s new historical novel to be released at the end of June.

Here’s what Blythe had to say:  “For me, it’s all about the hero – he was completely delicious. The book is just plain encouraging; sometimes it’s easy to think all the really good books have been written already, and there’s nothing else out there.” […]