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3d ago
When I’m with someone I don’t know that well and the conversation lags, I love to ask them: What’s your favorite movie?
Most of the time, people think a moment and then say they don’t have a favorite movie but, if they had to pick they’d say __________________. Then they ask me for mine.
I say, well, that’s tough but, right now it’s probably ________________. My answer has changed over time–for years I’d have said The Sound of Music. For the past decade, I usually pick Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous but lately I’ve also thrown Body Heat (I could watch it just for Ted Danson and baby Mick ..read more
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1w ago
Dabney: What made you want to write a YA book?
Lynn: I love that stage in life, at least on a fictional level. Real life young adulthood is so fraught and difficult and sometimes painful. But in a book, you can pull the best parts of being young and magnify them to tell the story of maybe how things should be, or you wish they had been.
Too, kids in their late teens are old enough to have all of the feelings of an adult–love, desire, frustration, dreams–but young enough not to have the responsibilities of an adult. I’m not saddled with nagging questions like what am I going to make for ..read more
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1w ago
AAR has given DIKs to twenty-three books in 2024. Of those, fifteen are 2024 releases. They are:
Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira
Convenient Vows With a Viking by Lucy Morris & Sarah Rodi
At First Spite by Olivia Dade
Compass and Blade by Rachel Greenlaw
Promises of Forever by Nicky James
The Hunter by Tana French
First Lie Wins by Ashely Elston
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain
When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein
Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara Ackerman
The Par ..read more
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2w ago
I Hate You, I Hate You, I Love You: The Enemies-to-Lovers Trope
One of the hottest tropes across so many sub-genres of romance is the enemies-to-lovers storyline. You know the deal: couple meets, instant dislike, much antagonism, angry sparks turn to lusty sparks, maybe it wasn’t hate so much as… love? I’m a huge fan.
But while this is one of the most appealing tropes, I also find it to be the hardest one to do well.
Case in point. I’m currently reading Erin Watt’s Paper Princess, which received an A- grade here at AAR. And I can see why. I’m completely engrossed and turning pages like ..read more
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3w ago
The thing about romance novels, it was always said, they had to have a happily ever after ending (or, perhaps, a happy for now ending.) Romance Writers of America still says this:
Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.
A Central Love Story: The main plot centers around individuals falling in love and struggling to make the relationship work. A writer can include as many subplots as they want as long as the love story is the main focus of the novel.
An Emotionally Satisfying and Optimistic Ending ..read more
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3w ago
Here are just a few of the March releases the world is chatting about. Are any of them on your radar? If not, what is?
The post March releases! What are you excited about? appeared first on All About Romance ..read more
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1M ago
I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from the past three months but these same pages show up on the report for the past year.
In the past three months AAR had 443,750 pages views, 137,500 users, and 1,177,000 clicks or events. (Sadly, this does not translate into the same sort of dollars.)
The Home Page had 77,849 views, 12,490 users, and 195,049 total interactions. Power Search v.2 had 10,250 views, 4,083 users, and 29,102 total interactions.
Here are the Top 25 Pages and Th ..read more
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1M ago
AAR published its first pages in 1996, started by the brilliant Laurie Gold. Many of the early pages–although not the reviews–are lost due to incompatible software, cost, and error.
We can still, however, see some of those pages at the Wayback Machine. The earliest pages they have there of AAR are from May 1998. Even then, especially then, AAR was awesome.
Take a look. The links, in general, work!
https://web.archive.org/web/19980529091225/http://www.likesbooks.com/
The post A blast from the past: AAR–then it was likesbooks.com–in May 1998 appeared first on All About Romance ..read more
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1M ago
I love second chance romances. Not the ones where people dated briefly in high school or had a youthful fling, but those stories where people fell hard out of love and now, years later, have a chance to try again. Give me a Cam and Gigi, a Tara and Ford, a Adam and Marissa, a Josiah and Yesmen, or a Lyon and Olivia and I am in romance heaven. (I even have a soft spot for the utterly un PC Jack and Sherrie.)
Truth: Out of the five couples of my family of origin–my parents, my three siblings and I–every couple but one, my sister, broke up for at least a year before reconciling. Dr. Feelgood bro ..read more
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1M ago
The two best selling nonfiction works at Amazon in 2023 were Fourth Wing and Iron Flame both of which are–and I so don’t love this mashup–romantasy. Also in the top 25 was A Court of Thorn and Roses–that whole series sold a boatload. If you look at just the best-sellers in romance, romantasy ruled on many a site.
OK, just to be clear, romantasy is a fantasy with romance in it. Which is fantasy romance, right? I confess I’m not sure I know JUST what it is. The person who, for me, has described it the best is Sarah from Smart Bitches who wrote in The Washington Post:
Like all fun indulgences ..read more