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.
I'm watching Ken Burns's American Revolution hoping it doesn't cover any of the tidbits from You, Me, and the Conspiracy, like a totally normal person. 😭
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm watching Ken Burns's American Revolution hoping it doesn't cover any of the tidbits from You, Me, and the Conspiracy, like a totally normal person. 😭
Is there anything more demoralizing than spending an entire morning grading only to check your Canvas queue and to see the number has ticked up because students were turning things in?
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is there anything more demoralizing than spending an entire morning grading only to check your Canvas queue and to see the number has ticked up because students were turning things in?
If Glenn Powell's story from his SNL monologue about the UPS driver is true, it's adorable and I would read that book.
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If Glenn Powell's story from his SNL monologue about the UPS driver is true, it's adorable and I would read that book.
I just watched it, and it's totally entertaining. It's two hours of hot people having a great time. You need it, and you deserve it.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I just watched it, and it's totally entertaining. It's two hours of hot people having a great time. You need it, and you deserve it.
One of my formative life experiences was reading The Scarlet Letter in the fall of 1998.
The flower of my young adulthood was spent hearing about William Jefferson Clinton getting a blow job and here we are 27 years later and ONCE AGAIN I gotta hear about somebody sucking that man's dick.
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
One of my formative life experiences was reading The Scarlet Letter in the fall of 1998.
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The law of the living cannot be eluded .... it is eternal,
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The law of the living cannot be eluded .... it is eternal,
A GORGEOUS COVER FOR A WONDERFUL BOOK!!
Maybe you'd like to see the amazing cover for WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON, my book about an infamously underpowered oracle saving the world alongside the uptight demon who helped ruin her life 20 years ago?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/WOOprh
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/WOOprh
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A GORGEOUS COVER FOR A WONDERFUL BOOK!!
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But [t]he [pedophile] r[ing] emails
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
But [t]he [pedophile] r[ing] emails
My adopted state is pretty great.
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My adopted state is pretty great.
So I see that we're having a really calm news day.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So I see that we're having a really calm news day.
The only thing I have to add to the JCO discourse is that while the woman can be a mess, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" absolutely rivets students. I do love teaching it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The only thing I have to add to the JCO discourse is that while the woman can be a mess, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" absolutely rivets students. I do love teaching it.
I watched this while knitting this weekend, and it was unexpectedly hilarious and also kind of touching and a lot relevant.
Netflix's new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal. n.pr/43Qlg1W
'Death by Lightning' unfolds like an 1880s 'West Wing'
Netflix's new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I watched this while knitting this weekend, and it was unexpectedly hilarious and also kind of touching and a lot relevant.
And Warner's is here www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And Warner's is here www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...
I'm certain that this time, Lucy really is going to let Charlie Brown kick that football. /sarcasm
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm certain that this time, Lucy really is going to let Charlie Brown kick that football. /sarcasm
Does anyone have a recommendation for a book of sock knitting patterns?
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Does anyone have a recommendation for a book of sock knitting patterns?
Am now rereading Frankenstein: "and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors." Ah, what a critique of AI "learning."
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Am now rereading Frankenstein: "and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors." Ah, what a critique of AI "learning."
Frankenstein was a truly beautiful film. Make cinema a visual medium again!
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Frankenstein was a truly beautiful film. Make cinema a visual medium again!
Politicians are happy to speak for "soccer moms" or wine moms or whatever we're calling them these days.
Which is why we--because I am one!--need to speak for ourselves.
Which is why we--because I am one!--need to speak for ourselves.
Suburban moms protesting peacefully and being arrested outside Broadview.
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Politicians are happy to speak for "soccer moms" or wine moms or whatever we're calling them these days.
Which is why we--because I am one!--need to speak for ourselves.
Which is why we--because I am one!--need to speak for ourselves.
I LOVE this idea. Some of my books' theme songs:
You, Me, & the Conspiracy - "House of the Rising Sun," Lauren O'Connell
Bold Moves - "Let You Break My Heart Again," Laufey
Bad Reputation - "Cut to the Feeling," Carly Rae Jepsen
Funny Guy - "Steamroller," Phoebe Bridgers
You, Me, & the Conspiracy - "House of the Rising Sun," Lauren O'Connell
Bold Moves - "Let You Break My Heart Again," Laufey
Bad Reputation - "Cut to the Feeling," Carly Rae Jepsen
Funny Guy - "Steamroller," Phoebe Bridgers
I am so glad to hear I am not the only writer who has opening tv show credits playing in their brain as they write. Here are the theme songs for my other books:
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I LOVE this idea. Some of my books' theme songs:
You, Me, & the Conspiracy - "House of the Rising Sun," Lauren O'Connell
Bold Moves - "Let You Break My Heart Again," Laufey
Bad Reputation - "Cut to the Feeling," Carly Rae Jepsen
Funny Guy - "Steamroller," Phoebe Bridgers
You, Me, & the Conspiracy - "House of the Rising Sun," Lauren O'Connell
Bold Moves - "Let You Break My Heart Again," Laufey
Bad Reputation - "Cut to the Feeling," Carly Rae Jepsen
Funny Guy - "Steamroller," Phoebe Bridgers
I have some books on sale that I should probably plug, huh? First up, in North America, you can grab the ebook of Bold Moves--my super angsty, super spicy chess romance is about secrets, second-chances, and shooting a television show--for $2.49 at Amazon all this month.
Bold Moves: A Novel
www.amazon.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I have some books on sale that I should probably plug, huh? First up, in North America, you can grab the ebook of Bold Moves--my super angsty, super spicy chess romance is about secrets, second-chances, and shooting a television show--for $2.49 at Amazon all this month.
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this airport restriction thing baffles me from a political POV. can someone explain to me what play they think they're making?
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
this airport restriction thing baffles me from a political POV. can someone explain to me what play they think they're making?
There's so much work to do, but it feels less impossible this morning. Let's have more days like this, please.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
There's so much work to do, but it feels less impossible this morning. Let's have more days like this, please.
Love you, Virginia
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Love you, Virginia
I finished my freaking dev edit.
I'm on page 307 of 381 of my dev edit. The book is SO much stronger than when I started almost three weeks ago, but gosh darn am I exhausted.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I finished my freaking dev edit.