Sometimes the YA world is just… nuts.
As a reader who often heads to the Young Adult section first, I’m frequently called out by adults for my reading choices – usually by those who don’t know what the YA field is like and…
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Dear reader… I’m worried.
What is AAR? It’s not a business–we don’t make any money and no one gets paid. It truly is a labor of love for all of us. (I do give the staff gift certificates at the…
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A List of RWA Chapters Issuing Statements in the Wake of Recent Events
Many of our readers have probably been following recent events in RWA. In the wake of these developments at the national level, RWA local and online chapters have started to weigh in with statements both official…
Has RWA Lost Its Way?
Many readers have been busy with celebrations for various holidays this week and many more do not spend much time on Twitter, so some may have missed the news that dropped on December 23, 2019. To…
Twitter said AAR is the worst. Is it true?
Last Thursday, October 26th, was not a good day for AAR. By the day’s end, many on Twitter—romance authors among them—had tweeted and retweeted accusations that AAR and its readers are racist, sexist, and ablest.
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To the Wonderful Readers of AAR, a Request
This post is now closed. Keira will be contacting those of you who have said they’d like to participate. Thanks! Through more than twenty years of All About Romance’s reviews, AAR’s readers have visited, read…
Male fatphobia in romance novels: why does romance hate overweight men?
In all my years of romance reading, the only hero I recall who was described as overweight was Henry Tewskbury-Hampton of Carla Kelly’s delightful vintage Signet regency Miss Billings Treads the Boards. Over twenty years.
Romancelandia Pet Peeves
A few weeks ago, I selected a book to review that admitted it was a novella, but pretended it was a stand-alone. When I opened it up, the book was fifty seven pages and was about…
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Chatting with Elizabeth Kingston at #RWA18
The best part of RWA’s annual conference is, for us, getting to talk with authors we love. Elizabeth Kingston’s books get high marks from us so we were excited to ask her what she’s writing next.