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🚨 New Early Access content is available in JPRS! Rain Posner reviews Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing & Success (2024), by Christine Larson. Follow the link to read: doi.org/10.70138/GTO... #RomanceResearch

Cover for the book "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success", by Christine Larson. It has a blue background. Surrounding the title in the center of the image are some shelves that hold books as well as people, who engage in different activities: reading, writing, talking.

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🚨 New publication (as Early Access) alert! You can now read Hanna Hoorenman's (@hannahoorenman.bsky.social) review of Francesca Pierini's latest book: Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre. Follow the link to read and download: doi.org/10.70138/XNU... #RomanceResearch

Book cover for Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre, it features a swirl of pastel blue and pink as a background

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🆕 Amy Duong has reviewed the volume Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (2025), edited by Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno Calleja, for JPRS. Follow the link to read the full early access review: doi.org/10.70138/VPK...

Cover image for the book Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History, edited By Hsu-Ming Teo and Paloma Fresno-Calleja

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CfP 🚨 Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance! 📆 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas (at839@cam.ac.uk). 🔗 Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

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Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

Sports in romance narratives in a variety of media, including but not limited to: genre fiction, memoir, screen media, music, or in the teaching of these media.
The significance of self-publishing in contemporary sport romance
The relationship between sport fan communities, romance fan communities and sport romance fiction
‘BookTok’ and the impact of sport romance fan behaviour on athletes
Precursors to contemporary sport romance such as Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars
Portrayals of gender difference and subversion in sport romance
Class, wealth and celebrity in sport romance
Queer themes and homophobia within sport culture as explored in sport romance
Young Adult sport romance and the pedagogical interventions endeavoured by sport romance in young people’s physical activity

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Jeff Fields McCormack (@jfmauthor.bsky.social) reviews the volume "Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others", edited by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi: doi.org/10.70138/NSV... #RomanceResearch

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Carly Bennett reviews Derritt Mason's book "Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture": doi.org/10.70138/NZG... #RomanceResearch

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Pavlína Studená reviews Cristina Herrera's book "ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy" (2020): doi.org/10.70138/SEX... #RomanceResearch

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🚨 A new book review has been published in JPRS! Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC... #RomanceResearch

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Javaria Farooqui (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social‬) reviews Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (2023), by Jayashree Kamblé (@profromance.bsky.social‬). Find the review here: doi.org/10.70138/TXE... (3/4)

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Morgan Myong Jakobcic reviews Orgasmic Bodies: The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture (2015), by Hannah Frith. Find the review here: doi.org/10.70138/WTR... (2/4)

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies