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 saw in today's SBTB sales roundup that The Violin Conspiracy is on sale for $1.99. I thought it was unputdownable and beautifully written. Highly recommend!
Contemporary Romance, a Mystery, & More | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I saw in today's SBTB sales roundup that The Violin Conspiracy is on sale for $1.99. I thought it was unputdownable and beautifully written. Highly recommend!
BUY MY LOVELY FRIEND'S LOVELY BOOK
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
BUY MY LOVELY FRIEND'S LOVELY BOOK
Carville had one good election in 1992, and he's been coasting on it ever since. Cut bait, and let that guy go.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Carville had one good election in 1992, and he's been coasting on it ever since. Cut bait, and let that guy go.
I wrote a rom-com that acknowledged covid (Chick Magnet), and that was a... polarizing choice. So I absolutely believe it's getting sublimated into other varieties of loss and grief.
Shorter version: people are using cancer in romance backstories because it’s less fraught than using covid: discuss
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I wrote a rom-com that acknowledged covid (Chick Magnet), and that was a... polarizing choice. So I absolutely believe it's getting sublimated into other varieties of loss and grief.
this was so fun, and I think it's on the LSA YouTube channel if you couldn't watch live
Thank you @oliviawrites.bsky.social @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social and @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a really lovely and thoughtful conversation! 💗
Thanks to @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social for hosting!
Thanks to @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social for hosting!
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
this was so fun, and I think it's on the LSA YouTube channel if you couldn't watch live
COME TO THIS (FREE & VIRTUAL) EVENT AND SEE MY LOVELY FRIENDS.
I'm going to ask them questions and fangirl about their amazing books!!
I'm going to ask them questions and fangirl about their amazing books!!
Join me and @oliviawrites.bsky.social and our excellent moderator @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a virtual book celebration, 11/22 at 1pm Central. The event is free, but you'll need to register with Love's Sweet Arrow:
shop.lovessweetarrow.com/oliviaandmindy
shop.lovessweetarrow.com/oliviaandmindy
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
COME TO THIS (FREE & VIRTUAL) EVENT AND SEE MY LOVELY FRIENDS.
I'm going to ask them questions and fangirl about their amazing books!!
I'm going to ask them questions and fangirl about their amazing books!!
The world owes romance writers an apology. We told you that writing dirty talk was an art, but you didn't believe us.
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The world owes romance writers an apology. We told you that writing dirty talk was an art, but you didn't believe us.
Happy, happy release week!! I love this book very much
THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power.
Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Happy, happy release week!! I love this book very much
So we're at the show trials stage of things, I see.
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So we're at the show trials stage of things, I see.
a fascinating question!
Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
Feel free to RT/boost
Feel free to RT/boost
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
a fascinating question!
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ok I’m sorry to ever say anything but what the fuck does she think a canto is
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
ok I’m sorry to ever say anything but what the fuck does she think a canto is
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“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
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...