Deadline July 1 for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on the Honey & Wax website! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN! We have 10 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

If anyone's curious, my 18C Novel Course will be reading: Haywood, FANTOMINA (1725) Fielding, THE GOVERNESS (1749) Burney, EVELINA (1778) Austen, EMMA (1816) Anonymous, THE WOMAN OF COLOUR With @rebeccaromney.com JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF as guide to an additional novel adoption.

I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.

It’s so beautiful

This is well said. In the humanities, often the process itself is the point. The field of AI is results focused. AI will not be of much use to the humanities as long as its function (and branding) is to eliminate process — to eliminate thinking and experience-based learning.

As a rare book dealer I think a lot about which books survive the centuries to continue to be read by subsequent generations. Among the books of the 20th century I most believe should continue to be read in 200 years: Goodnight Moon. It is a perfect book.

Got a want match for a rare book and can’t remember why I made the want in the first place: The Rebecca Romney Story.

We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary with an exhibition of our most beloved artifacts—100 objects selected by the 10 teams who steward the collection. 10 × 10 for 10 is on view until October 2025. Thu: 1:00pm–8:00pm (free!) Fri–Sat: 11:00am–6:00pm Visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/?utm_c...

Eeeee I love this book so much and I am utterly delighted by this

There are 5 independent book stores within 2 miles of me—Da Book Joint, Call & Response Books, 57th Street Books, Seminary-Coop, and Powells— and I am looking forward to visiting all of them this Saturday on Independent Bookstore Day.

I finished this book over the weekend and it is *such* a great read! For Austen fans especially, but it’s more than that: about book collecting, women writers, and how writers become part of “the canon.”

This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

Today in Cleveland!

Philly & Wilmington people! Are you interested in Jane Austen and the women she read? Have I got a book event for you! 🤩 THIS THURSDAY, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social author talk for Jane Austen's Bookshelf with @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with ME! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

Next Thursday, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social to hear @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with little ol’ me about her FANTASTIC new book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf! ✨ Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

Had a lovely Janeite conversation on the JASNA podcast about Austen’s favorite books! Listen here: jasna.org/austen/podca...

The Science Behind Old Book Smell

Identifying a first edition vs. a book club edition:

JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF is a read that keeps on giving— At Jane's (& @rebeccaromney.com's) recommendation, I've now read BELINDA by Maria Edgeworth, & EVELINA, by Frances Burney— in case you are in the mood for stories in which cads are mercilessly ridiculed & get their comeuppance. #booksky

Tracing the history of the phrase “pride and prejudice” in a new Jane Austen book — fantastic. www.seattlepi.com/news/article...

I know I’m literally years late to this party, but I’m finally reading Sinykin’s Big Fiction and it is GREAT. I am rapt.

When is the last time we talked about the stunning jacket design for the 1946 first edition of Ann Petry’s THE STREET? Let’s talk about it more. I wish I knew the artist.

Now on its way to a special collections library: these Meiji era (1886) educational cards introducing Japanese students to major figures of Western history and literature, based on the classic Iroha Karuta matching game. Among those included: Newton, Homer, George Washington, Cleopatra, & Moses.

If you’re a Jane Austen fan, and of course you are, you’ve got to get Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. It’s such a fun read, I learned a lot, and it’s been so fun to start digging into the works of the authors she writes about.

My surprised/grateful/joyous/exhausted face as I learned during a 2-hour flight delay that Emma Straub recommended my book this morning on the TODAY Show:

Would 100% attend if I were in Boston.

I talked about JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF with Kelsey Bates, director of @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social, who asked delightful questions (and is now reading Ann Radcliffe!) www.rosenbach.org/blog/in-conv...

So gratified to see @theguardian.com review JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: an unforgettable phrase, “canon jujitsu”! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

If you’re in London, the delightful Heywood Hill has signed copies of my book available:

New from @rebeccaromney.com

Any time is a good time to sing the praises of this book

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

NPR’s Morning Edition visited us at Type Punch Matrix to talk about my book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Give it a listen: www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

My freshly arrived copy of @rebeccaromney.com new book, atop an exhibit case for our “Jane Austen’s Library” exhibit. We look forward to Rebecca’s visit to speak at our library on April 22nd!

Submissions are now open for our 9th year of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Please share widely so we can award these amazing young women some money! lithub.com/submissions-...

It’s pub day for the UK edition of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF — which features a special SIGNED limited indie exclusive issue found in the link below. These are sprinkled around indies in the UK — if you are one of these indies, @ me your link and I’ll boost for those who want the signed version!

Happy pub day — excited to include this book in my 18th Century Novel course this fall.

“It all started with a book that made me curious.” Read an excerpt of my new book JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF via @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/jane-austens...

#SIGNED + sprayed edge editions of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend by @rebeccaromney.com Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page... #JaneAusten #booksky 📚💙

It’s finally publication day for JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF — so excited for readers to learn about Austen’s favorite authors! bookshop.org/p/books/jane... Audiobook: www.simonandschuster.biz/books/Jane-A...

JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF is full of recs of books that influenced Austen. For @literaryhub.bsky.social I made a list of great books that Austen influenced: lithub.com/jane-austens...

Thank you to the New York Times Book Review for this perceptive and engaged review of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF! As I say in the book: the process is the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

Well my reading list just got a whole lot longer... I don't have to be sad that I've finished this book, because it will keep on giving for a long time. #booksky

Fascinating that being an antiquarian book dealer is a factor to be elided when talking about the romance rare book collection I sold to the Lilly!

Love this video from @rebeccaromney.com and am fascinated by the idea that people used to have a “book binder” that would put covers on their books the way people personalize their phones with custom cases/skins today.

Our upcoming print catalogue at the shop includes a rare 18th-century book on insects — so we are leaning into that for the cover design 🪲

Great new podcast episode with tons of info relevant to romance collecting. Also, can't wait to read Rebecca's book! @shelflove.bsky.social @rebeccaromney.com shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/sea...

Another addition to my Jane Austen Bookshelf collection: this 1903 edition of Frances Burney’s EVELINA. My book is finished but I can’t stop collecting 😭