Every attempted hit piece on unionism is an advertisement for unionism.

Give him a month and he’ll be trying to marry it

I got to read this book early and it absolutely rules, so yes, *do* consider.

Cover reveal! A Study in Sparkling is coming out on 28 July in Australia/NZ and 15 September in the US. Aus/NZ preorder: www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/A-Stud... US preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Stud...

In early career you have lists in your head of scholars you admire who are just a few years ahead — I remember clearly when these scholars started to disappear. These scholars aren't replaced. The knowledge disappears. The gaps widen.

ICYMI: the gorgeous cover of my new book! This is the sequel to An Academic Affair, starring a single mother trying to get back on her feet after the humiliation of finding out about her husband's other family, & the lovely younger sommelier who offers to help her in a very, ahem, particular way...

Project Educate Jodi on Action Movies (capably curated by @katydidinoz.bsky.social) reconvened today with a double header of BIG things - Rampage and Pacific Rim, which are both a) full of nonsense & b) stone cold bangers. Updated rankings below (I am now a person who has seen 30 action movies)!

ICYMI: the gorgeous cover of my new book! This is the sequel to An Academic Affair, starring a single mother trying to get back on her feet after the humiliation of finding out about her husband's other family, & the lovely younger sommelier who offers to help her in a very, ahem, particular way...

Cover reveal! A Study in Sparkling is coming out on 28 July in Australia/NZ and 15 September in the US. Aus/NZ preorder: www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/A-Stud... US preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Stud...

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

When bad academics go to hell, they are forced to set up new external accounts on other universities' IT systems for the rest of time.

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Annual reminder for Australian writers and artists: join the Copyright Agency (it's free!) & register your works by 31 March to receive an annual lump-sum payment for their reuse Copyright is even more precious as generative AI companies steal creative work! Separate info below…

Entries to The Steph Bowe Prize can now be submitted until 15 March 2026. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship with an award-winning #LoveOzYA author to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $300. Visit www.stephboweprize.com to enter!

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

"A strategic plan from the Vice Chancellor of Student Enrollment and Faculty Shaming." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

I have some free e-print links to this article. Comment below and I'd be happy to share.

The constant flood of AI author spam emails is getting very old, but one of mine today contained the wonderfully odd phrase "A partner hires a loophole" today, so... the proofreading industry still has some life in it, methinks.

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

@jodimca.bsky.social did this about academic tenure and the broken job market here: www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/An-Aca...

as a romance reader, I hold Two (or more) Freaks Fuck It Up Bigtime as the ideal but I think sometimes as a romance writer, I am pulling my punches and my characters are insufficiently angry with each other

Falling in love shouldn't necessarily make the protagonists better people. It should change them - might make them *more*, heighten or make them more comfortable with parts of themselves - but romantic love is not some kind of moral cure.

Stoked to see @jamesfolta.com in @literaryhub.bsky.social talking up a dataset on int'l bestsellers built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social (I helped). See who the world reads! One nit: Folta sez "Sinykin is a great follow on Bluesky"—LIES lithub.com/find-your-ne...

...and one about whether Wuthering Heights is a romance novel. (Spoilers: no.)

In a (vain, probably) attempt to combat the flood of romance-illiterate Valentine's Day thinkpieces, I wrote two of my own this year - one with @profromance.bsky.social about romance adaptations...

In a (vain, probably) attempt to combat the flood of romance-illiterate Valentine's Day thinkpieces, I wrote two of my own this year - one with @profromance.bsky.social about romance adaptations...

Our third anniversary trail celebrates Australian romance, compiled by Ashleigh Lowry! As always, this is a taste not a best of. The slides, by Monica Clayton, highlight @keshewrites.bsky.social, Colleen McCullough, and Toni Jordan, but check out the full list at: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?

Also thiiiiis

This is a terrific article about respecting the romance genre, particularly relevant at the moment given all those stupid valentine's day articles highlighting "best of" lists that are mostly not romances.

More and more romance adaptations are starting to appear – but what makes the translation from page to screen really sing?

As everyone knows, publishing trends are *never* cyclical and historical certainly won't come roaring back any time soon when, eg, the romantasy bubble bursts...

More and more romance adaptations are starting to appear – but what makes the translation from page to screen really sing?

Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was ‘a hero of romance’ – though the new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?

by me

With the new movie about to come out, I wrote about whether Wuthering Heights is a) a romance or b) romantic for @aunz.theconversation.com .

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with Roberts:

The #1 rule about paying someone to teach you how to make money writing books is don't pay them if they won't even tell you what books they wrote that are making all the money.

Your #Bridgerton friends are back for season 7 (!!) of What Would Danbury Do? . With special guest host @jodimca.bsky.social, we waltz with episode one of season four of Bridgerton, Benedict, Sophie and the lady in silver. On all your favourite podcast providers or bridgertonpod.com #wwddpod

“We’re heading into, within the next five years, a real reduction in the capacities to sustain a creative and cultural workforce … There will be an enormous decline in the amount of creative and artistic activity in Australia.”

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

I am also going to win, because I'm never going to wake up in the morning, stare into the empty eyes of the thing in the mirror, and realise I traded my soul and my children's world to make a small profit off slop.

Good morning to everyone who writes their own goddamn romance novels, using their messy human brain, because that’s where the good shit comes in and we all know it

I don't have much to add to what has already been said about this piece (AI grifts are bad!! romance is about the human!! I hate this!!), but there's one detail I got stuck on - ironically, not an AI one. Sex in a wine fermentation tank??? What are we doing??? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

What a dire timeline right now - even in romance. I'm going to write words about Harlequin killing the Historical line (a threat for the last decade) and now it's been announced that All About Romance, a 30-year old website is shutting down allaboutromance.com/its-been-a-g... #Romancelandia