Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.
Jodi McAlister
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I adored both of these books and definitely rec them if they sound at all up your alley.
the writing *is* the thinking, these two things simply cannot be productively divorced from each other
Romance is often one of the earliest genres to grapple with moments of social change or disruption (see also: FIFO romances).
Case in point below!
We're expecting a romance novel where the anti-hero runs an AI data centre any day now.
North American pals!! My book Not Here To Make Friends is on sale in e-book at the moment - it's only $1.99.
She's a reality TV villain. He's her producer. They're Machiavellian masterminds with a complicated shared history and an insatiable desire for control. bookshop.org/p/books/not-...
Jodi McAlister
And also, if you've read them both, there's a little bonus scene on my website that connects them...
North American friends - a couple of my books are on sale in e-book right now! You can get An Academic Affair* for $2.99...
*the one where they're rival academics who get married so they can take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market
bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...
...and you can get Not Here To Make Friends* for $1.99.
*the one where she's a reality TV villain, he's her producer, and they're both Machiavellian masterminds with a complicated shared history wrestling for control
bookshop.org/p/books/not-...
Jodi McAlister
Oh, and it's also currently on sale in e-book in the US for $2.99!! It features:
💙 Rival academics (written by me, an academic)
🩷 A marriage of convenience for work purposes, because of the broken academic jobs market
🥂 A wine bar that is also a bookshop
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Oh, and it's also currently on sale in e-book in the US for $2.99!! It features:
💙 Rival academics (written by me, an academic)
🩷 A marriage of convenience for work purposes, because of the broken academic jobs market
🥂 A wine bar that is also a bookshop
Jodi McAlister
Day by day, decade by decade, the abyss between working scholars and university management widens by another kilometre.
North American friends - a couple of my books are on sale in e-book right now! You can get An Academic Affair* for $2.99...
*the one where they're rival academics who get married so they can take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market
bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...
Near the end of An Academic Affair, Lyons University – the university Sadie and Jonah work for – tries to push forward an agenda called “Renewniversity”,
Fuck this all the way to the lava pit
She said: “I really do feel that it’s allowed me to focus more of my time and energy on what really matters, which is the ideas, the thinking … rather than spending a lot of my time writing sentences from scratch.”
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Happy first birthday* to my little book that could. These totally-just-married-for-work-purposes academics have travelled farther and wider than I ever could have imagined.
*in Aus/NZ, anyway, this one had so many different release dates in various territories I've lost track of them
Happy first birthday* to my little book that could. These totally-just-married-for-work-purposes academics have travelled farther and wider than I ever could have imagined.
*in Aus/NZ, anyway, this one had so many different release dates in various territories I've lost track of them
Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.
