If you're enjoying #Bridgerton today, consider adding some philosophy!

Really enjoyed Adriana Anders' Dom-Com. Fave part: when the MMC tries the old "I'm just not a relationship guy," the FMC, instead of slinking away, pretending not to care, shouts at him: "“Are you kidding me? You are being so unserious right now!"

Oh First-Time Caller will be a movie! Really liked this book. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY is out now! Available at all the usual retailers. 22 chapters connecting the show (and books) to philosophical concepts and problems. Loads of quotes and Easter eggs, a fun read (I promise)! #romancelandia #Bridgerton #Netflix #Booksky #Romancebooksky

You can read my essay, on Bridgerton and the Happily Ever After, from the forthcoming Bridgerton and Philosophy, online here: andphilosophy.com/2026/02/06/b...

Excited to let folks know my edited book BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY (Wiley Blackwell) is out soon. 22 essays taking a philosophical look at the Netflix show and books. www.wiley.com/en-us/Bridge...

My gosh, what a lost book collection! 20k books! (and vinyl!). Glad everyone is ok.

Faculty romance book club still going strong! Last night's selection was The Most Wonderful Time by Jayne Allen. Two women at a crossroads in Chicago and Malibu swap houses for a week. Takes on some serious themes (racism, grief).

#Romancelandia, can we keep this GFM going? Robin is out of hospital, but the medical expenses and bills due have not stopped. Please chip in what you can, and share regardless; every $5 adds up. (remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)

I've read and enjoyed everything Ali Hazelwood has written, more or less, but I may have to DNF her latest, Deep End. I don't see how the MMC can redeem himself. #romancelandia #romancereaders

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

It’s my bookaversary! Happy three years to BLACK LOVE MATTERS, the book of my heart! I didn’t let the pandemic, cancer, or corralling 13 authors in ten states and two countries hold me down, and we got something magical in return! What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

It's been rough on campus. So many of my colleagues have had grant applications pulled, had to cancel fed funded funded conferences, and on and on. Just so scary and disheartening.

Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

Agreed. All my subs are banning links to X and many are adding Meta links, too.

My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog

Julie Ann Long's My Season of Scandal is absolutely fantastic. How is it possible this woman is not a NYT bestseller? She is one of the best in historical romance and has been for many years!

@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Trying to create my bioethics syllabus, a course I haven't taught for years, and I am struggling mightily. I think I'll quit and read some more of My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long.

Please take care if you choose to read this. It is excellent. I feel sick.

Since GenAI in classes came up, here is a very interesting document on GenAI Refusal in Writing Studies: refusinggenai.wordpress.com

Yep, it's in-class written exams for me this spring (with appropriate accommodations for students who need them of course).

Friends, look look look! I got to see this live and in person for the first time ever at MLA yesterday. A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US—now at the @sunypress.bsky.social booth (and on the website here of course: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...)

This showed up as a freebie with Amazon Prime, a "First Read", yay! II guess I get two free books a month? Is this new? Sonali Dev's There's Something About Mira. Coming out Feb 1.

For my fellow oldsters and young Yacht Rock fans: listened to Michael McDonald's memoir, What a Fool Believes, driving down to NYC and back -- it was great!

Forgot to mention which book I picked up at The Ripped Bodice. Make A Scene by Mimi Grace, a fake relationship for a wedding date romance.

Finally made time to visit The Ripped Bodice on a Brooklyn visit!

Just watched Conclave. I understand the praise for Fiennes but...this was not a good film and the ending made it a terrible film.

Half of writing is just saying, ‘I’ll deal with that later’ and then panicking because it’s later.

Been listening to last year's buzzy Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and BOY is this "sex scene" not written by a romance novelist: "She put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis." #romancelandia

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

Silo, I gave you a season plus. I'm sure the books by Hugh Howey are great but I'm so bored by this show.

what a wonderful writer, way ahead of her time in many ways #romancelandia

For more disabled authors to follow, check out my starter pack! If you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/NuhLqpf

Would buy

A terrific book as a whole, too!

I don't know what possessed me to try the audio of Butcher and Blackbird on audio when I usually avoid serial killer entertainment, but thankfully Audible let me return it. Just so gross.

This looks terrific!

Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I'm also rereading The Vegetarian bc the spouse decided to read it and I am questioning my life choices. Maybe I should go back to the emotionless yet angry earl.

Free on Kindle, I bought Defying the Earl by Erica Ridley which I am sure is good, but in the first 2 pages the text is telling me the earl is an "emotionless automaton" at the same time describing him as angry, glowering, teeth grinding, stalking about, jaw clenched. I'm having whiplash!

The calls for papers for the @iaspr.bsky.social and PCA Romance conferences close this Saturday 30 November! If you're studying popular romance in any capacity and want to submit an abstract, now's your chance. Here's the IASPR CFP (Mexico City/online, 24-26 June 2025)...

Nabbed a couple .99 Betty Neels today!

Hey #romancelandia, I am writing a thing about the Minerva Press and historical romance! I've come across 10ish recent novels where characters visit/discuss the Minerva Press or library, but am sure there are more--if you know of any, do share! #rombookchat #rombkchat #rombktalk#romancebooks

Hey @lizmc2.bsky.social my son is taking a Canadian Lit course and he read Molly of the Mall by LM Jacobs which I sneak-read when he wasn't using it. It was kind of fun, didn't love it but it made me laugh. Do you know this book or author?

When you convince your romcom-obsessed-cartoon-cover-loving book club to take a chance on Judith Ivory's 1991 historical Black Silk for next month's read.

Our Maine romance book club full of professors is reading a Maine romance author writing about professors for our November book club meeting! "Given Our History" by Kristyn J. Miller.

I'm so pleased to post this CFA: andphilosophy.com/2024/06/04/b... #Bridgerton #Romancelandia Please share!

My iconic reality TV villain and the producer who's pining for her are now officially published in the US. 💜💛 #Romancelandia Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/unti...