There are only a few days left until An Academic Affair comes out in Canada and the US! It's about two rival academics who get married to take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market. If you like books, wine and/or unions, this is for you. bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

Great piece from Peter Coviello about bad faith media and academia lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

There are only a few days left until An Academic Affair comes out in Canada and the US! It's about two rival academics who get married to take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market. If you like books, wine and/or unions, this is for you. bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that. www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...

Frank is now tasked with ensuring all politicians and commentators have read more than the first part of the 'lucky country' sentence.

Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.

The sweetest slowww burn that then turns to 🧨💥🌶️🥵🥵🥵. Preorder at bookshop.org/a/113984/978...

Insightful analysis from my RMIT colleague Alexa Scarlata in @aunz.theconversation.com about the Aus gov’s newly announced streamer regulation. theconversation.com/new-laws-wil...

Less than a week until An Academic Affair is out in the US and Canada, and it's popping up on a few lists! Loved the little write-up in this one on Book Riot.

This should have happened a long time ago (and the quota should probably be higher), but this is a step in the right direction.

What I'm getting from this photo is that I could love but never tame him, that his truest love is the sea.

"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good." lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off! Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.

Grace Tame's review of Tony Abbott's book is an absolute scream, in two ways.

My latest rom-com An Academic Affair has been out in Australia/NZ/UK for a little while, but it comes out in the US and Canada on November 11! It's about two rival academics who get married to take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market.

When you look at your Google Scholar citations

This is a cool idea for a new way of doing scholarly publishing (which is, at present, an absolute racket).

A bunch of new indie bookstores have been added to my Starter Packs, for a total of almost 300. If you know of an indie bookstore anywhere in the world that has a Bluesky account, but isn't included, let me know. go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm go.bsky.app/9bTR428

And if you're a librarian or bookseller or book reviewer (or similar), it's on Netgalley!

Time to resurrect one of my favorite things Over Here: let me know about a book you either have out now or one that's up for folks to preorder, and I'll repost to boost it! 📚💜

New article alert 🚨 A new article by Emily Fuller has just been published on JPRS. Follow the link to read "Breaking Boundaries through the Body: Love, Monogamy, and Heteropessimism in Fredrik Backman’s Fiction": doi.org/10.70138/LXC... #RomanceResearch

Less than two weeks before An Academic Affair comes out in North America, and it's very cool to see it popping up on a few November round-ups.

We live in the stupidest of times #auspol

We're looking for a new colleague in Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Waikato (L or SL level). Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and circulate to anyone relevant! elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Me in Artshub today, on the occasion of a rare win.

I wrote a little essay about footnotes for The Shit No One Tells You About Writing - why I don't particularly like them as a scholar, and why I used them anyway for Jonah in An Academic Affair.* *which is out on Nov 11 in North America, and which I would be delighted if you would pre-order!

I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w... There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.

One of the reasons I wrote the university as unromantically as I did in my rom-com An Academic Affair was because of frustration with the way it's frequently romanticised in dark academia etc, but this makes a good point about how that's just another way of representing higher education in crisis.

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

Witty part of academic paper title: Serious description of what the paper is about

New idea for an AI agent that just goes around turning off all the annoying AI features and agents like some sort of AI Highlander

The ASA welcomes the Albanese Government’s decision to rule out a Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to Australian copyright law, which would have allowed for AI training on authors’ work. aapnews.aap.com.au/news/copyrig...

Australian artists, journalists, authors and researchers create the stories and knowledge that shapes who we are as a nation. If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Don't want to count this as a win until it's *actually* confirmed, but this feels like it's moving in the win direction.

Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

I am so excited for this! just reread the trilogy of reality show romances and they're so smart and hot

Scholarship applications for my Write a YA Novel course at @allenandunwin.bsky.social ’s Faber Writing Academy close this Sunday. If you have a YA novel in the works but need a bit of a push (and regular workshopping with a bunch of friendly, motivated writers) then apply now! Details here:

Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that. www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...

This is a great piece from Mel Saward on some of the First Nations books that should have appeared on RN's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"

This is so very true. I did a few events in regional libraries for An Academic Affair, was anticipating pretty small turnouts, and had some of the most exciting, energising, well-attended events of my little tour. Libraries are so wonderful.

📣 Important update regarding this CfP: the submission deadline for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" has been extended until 30 November 2025! 🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/... #RomanceResearch

💘 Love takes time and so do great stories! We’ve extended the deadline for our First Nations Romance Anthology to 5pm AWST, Wednesday 31 December 2025. Read more: bit.ly/4owEmlD

I think the favourite thing I've ever seen in this genre is people asking whether Byron would be cancelled today. He was cancelled so hard in his own day that he had to leave the country and he never came back.

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

If you ever wanted my YA "Silence of the Lambs"-inspired serial killer thriller, NONE SHALL SLEEP, in digital then now is an excellent time because it costs less than 2 bucks US 😊🖤 www.amazon.com/None-Shall-S...

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

Each day the upper management of different unis seemingly find new ways to disappoint those of us working at universities. I love what I do, it breaks my heart what's been allowed to happen to unis in recent decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Robodebt for university academic integrity? WT!

Amy Krug from the University of Dayton got in touch about their library's popular romance novel collection, which is being created by her students