Emma Barry
@authoremmabarry.bsky.social
Novelist, college lecturer, and former political staffer. Lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, where she occasionally finds time to read and write. she/her https://linktr.ee/authoremmabarry
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Emma Barry
@authoremmabarry.bsky.social
· Sep 25
So I can finally share my vague publishing news with you: I wrote an academic adventure romance.
We were 17, and we went to see The Blair Witch Project on opening weekend. He later admitted that he picked it so that I'd hold his hand...which I totally did. (He probably didn't anticipate that I wouldn't ever let go.)
This is an unapologetically sappy feel-good subject (at least, I guess, for people in a happy relationship”). So, to prepare for Valentine’s Day, what did you and your partner do for a first date?
My wife and I went to tea at Huntington Gardens and walked around.
My wife and I went to tea at Huntington Gardens and walked around.
On our first date, my spouse and I spent like an hour talking about footnotes.
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
We were 17, and we went to see The Blair Witch Project on opening weekend. He later admitted that he picked it so that I'd hold his hand...which I totally did. (He probably didn't anticipate that I wouldn't ever let go.)
in case anyone needs a Valentine for their nerdy English major crush...I got you.
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
in case anyone needs a Valentine for their nerdy English major crush...I got you.
this is from You, Me, & the Conspiracy. but I don't have preorder links yet, alas.
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
this is from You, Me, & the Conspiracy. but I don't have preorder links yet, alas.
Oooh, I'll post something tomorrow!!!
Every Friday, share a #FridayFling snippet from your WIP or published work. :)
This week’s prompt is QUESTION!
You don’t have to match it exactly, just go with vibes. And if it’s published, drop those links in a reply to your main post so people can find it!
#Romancelandia #BookSky
This week’s prompt is QUESTION!
You don’t have to match it exactly, just go with vibes. And if it’s published, drop those links in a reply to your main post so people can find it!
#Romancelandia #BookSky
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Oooh, I'll post something tomorrow!!!
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“We can both fit!” Rose cried.
“It’s okay,” said Jack, shivering. “The Dow is over 50,000.”
“It’s okay,” said Jack, shivering. “The Dow is over 50,000.”
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
“We can both fit!” Rose cried.
“It’s okay,” said Jack, shivering. “The Dow is over 50,000.”
“It’s okay,” said Jack, shivering. “The Dow is over 50,000.”
Every single talking head in the American Experience documentary on Kissinger is just astonishingly smug. Their smugness is tangible. I can taste it.
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Every single talking head in the American Experience documentary on Kissinger is just astonishingly smug. Their smugness is tangible. I can taste it.
I'm absolutely shocked by the news about James Van Der Beek.
February 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I'm absolutely shocked by the news about James Van Der Beek.
Time is such a flat circle. In grad school, I read multiple books on bank note reporters, which were basically periodicals to help businesses decide if bank notes were real during the free banking era (which was also the peak con era) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_no...
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Time is such a flat circle. In grad school, I read multiple books on bank note reporters, which were basically periodicals to help businesses decide if bank notes were real during the free banking era (which was also the peak con era) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_no...
I see that we're having another really normal one in the good old U.S. of A.
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I see that we're having another really normal one in the good old U.S. of A.
One of my great aunts was called Honey. I didn't realize that wasn't her actual name until I was in my 20s.
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 AM
One of my great aunts was called Honey. I didn't realize that wasn't her actual name until I was in my 20s.
the world is ready for a super homoerotic Billy Budd (which is just to say...an adaptation of Billy Budd).
Frankenstein was a commercial hit. “Wuthering Heights” is going to be a hit. Maybe the studios should look at classic literature adaptations as one way to get young people going to the movies. Woke 2.0 adaptations of Melville and Hawthorne. It’d work
February 10, 2026 at 7:44 PM
the world is ready for a super homoerotic Billy Budd (which is just to say...an adaptation of Billy Budd).
the curling, it is TENSE.
February 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
the curling, it is TENSE.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Well, that was an amazing party!
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Well, that was an amazing party!
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
So it starts with a woman defending her himbo neighbor from a zombie with a burrito, and then it turns out that the neighbor is a vampire and they fall in love while saving the world.
It's a steal at any price, that's what I'm saying.
It's a steal at any price, that's what I'm saying.
Hey, everyone! The ZOMROMCOM ebook is $1.99 *today only*--so if you've been waiting for a price drop, now's your moment!
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B&N: go.oliviadade.com/Zbn
Kobo: go.oliviadade.com/Zk
iBooks: go.oliviadade.com/Zi
Google: go.oliviadade.com/Zgp
Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/Zbs
February 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
So it starts with a woman defending her himbo neighbor from a zombie with a burrito, and then it turns out that the neighbor is a vampire and they fall in love while saving the world.
It's a steal at any price, that's what I'm saying.
It's a steal at any price, that's what I'm saying.
I'm going to use the Will Lewis resignation email as an example when I teach the passive voice on Monday. Yeesh.
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I'm going to use the Will Lewis resignation email as an example when I teach the passive voice on Monday. Yeesh.
"All things have worked together as they have fallen out."
I've been listening to A Tale of Two Cities while knitting in the evenings, and truly, Sydney Carton is one of literature's ur fuckbois.
February 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
"All things have worked together as they have fallen out."
I ♥️ my adopted state!
February 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I ♥️ my adopted state!
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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People targeted by racist invective are under no obligation to say or do anything. Not even the Obamas. This is not their problem; it is ours.
February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
People targeted by racist invective are under no obligation to say or do anything. Not even the Obamas. This is not their problem; it is ours.
PRETTY!!
COVER REVEAL! 💜
It comes out next month and has a spunky FMC who seems to like trouble and a MMC who fell hard for her and looking for a second chance
Because of their Romeo & Juliet type relationship, I asked the artist (Sugam Thakur🥰) to do a hot air balloon version of the balcony scene 😄
It comes out next month and has a spunky FMC who seems to like trouble and a MMC who fell hard for her and looking for a second chance
Because of their Romeo & Juliet type relationship, I asked the artist (Sugam Thakur🥰) to do a hot air balloon version of the balcony scene 😄
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
PRETTY!!
that he is unhappy as we've made the rest of us is cold comfort...but it *is* comfort.
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
that he is unhappy as we've made the rest of us is cold comfort...but it *is* comfort.
ICYMI (it's me, I missed it), Lizzy McAlpine dropped a gorgeous cover of "The House of the Rising Sun" last week www.youtube.com/watch?v=3igY...
Lizzy McAlpine - House of the Rising Sun (Audio)
YouTube video by LizzyMcAlpineVEVO
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
ICYMI (it's me, I missed it), Lizzy McAlpine dropped a gorgeous cover of "The House of the Rising Sun" last week www.youtube.com/watch?v=3igY...