It’s Time to Vote for Your Favorite Bad Boy
You voted and here are the top 12 Bad Boys nominated by you, the readers of AAR. And, as promised, here’s the poll in which one Bad Boy will emerge triumphant as…well, AAR Readers’ Unofficial Favorite…
Who Are Your Favorite Bad Boys?
They’re mad, bad, and dangerous to know. And we couldn’t live without them. (In fiction, that is.) From the first moment I was introduced to prototypical Bad Boy Vidal in Georgette Heyer’s Devil’s Cub, I’ve been…
The Art of Love
Finding a balance in life is challenging. The routines, the career, the relationships, the finances, and family and friends – it isn’t easy compartmentalizing as well as merging all of these together, and too often we…
Authors | Characters | Heroes
What Defines Literary Crack?
I think we all know when we’re in the thrall of big time book crack. But, hey, since defining the blazingly obvious is something we like to do around here sometimes, here goes: Literary crack (the…
Characters | Heroes | Jean AAR | Reading
The Beautiful Minds of Heroes
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The Little Things You Do Together
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Monday’s Think Piece: Why I Heart Gene Simmons
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Who’s Your Fantasy Beach Companion?
Last week’s Washington Post featured a nifty column in which they asked a few authors (no romance authors, of course) to name a fictional character with whom they’d like to spend a day at the beach….
The Heroines We Hate
I’ve often felt that romance readers are unduly harsh on heroines. If my literature professor could talk about hero complexes and hubris and approach their ginormous issues rationally and analytically, why can’t we do the same…
Eating My Words (With a Large Side of Crow)
First of all, if you haven’t read Dead and Gone, the latest in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, and you have any intention of reading it ever in your lifetime, then stop reading this blog. Seriously….