Fab day @ the VPFA Sensation Fiction & the Health Humanities study day yesterday. As ever, wonderful to catch up with everyone, make new connections, & be immersed in so much interesting research. Thank you @braddonite.bsky.social for putting together such a great day & programme! @vpfa.bsky.social
VPFJ is seeking to expand its pool of expert reviewers.
Send an email to [email protected] with subject "VPFJ Reviewer Database" including:
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The day may come when I watch the extended editions over the long Easter weekend without crying in every single one and being a blubbering mess by the end of Return of the King, but it is not this day!
(But seriously. What a way to spend the long weekend.)
I went to a VPFA 'Turning your thesis into a monograph' workshop in 2022. After completing my PhD, I thought I'd maybe mine my thesis for a couple of articles and leave it at that. I left the workshop motivated, re-inspired, and my monograph is now in production 👀
So: sign up!
@vpfa.bsky.social
Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection
📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!
Christopher Columbus! I've written a new blog post for @vpfa.bsky.social, this time on the Christmassiness of Little Women adaptations...
It was much harder than anticipated. I changed the ranking many times. I began to question everything. I still am...
victorianpopularfiction.org/christmas-wo...
Emma Butler-Way
My top 10 fiction reads of the year, with 3 NF honourable mentions. At least 2 made me cry, & I was able to help launch another 2 here in Aber.
Hear me out re: Rivals. Bonkbuster is may be, but it's also a biting social commentary with a fascinatingly observational narrative voice. I was a big fan.
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Happy 3-year anniversary to my first ever publication: 'The Neo-Victorian Corset'. It has a very special place in my heart and marked the start of the next stage in my career, even if I remain slightly sad I couldn't come up with a zestier title... doi.org/10.3366/vic....
Emma Butler-Way
Emma Butler-Way
Ghosted is in Bloomsbury's Christmas sale and the hardback is currently £14 until 7th December. It even includes a recipe for ectoplasm you can shoot from your nose - a reliable way to get out of any complicated post-Christmas-dinner board game.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
In a new article, Toni Beardmore from our Department of Geography and Earth Sciences discusses how ‘Banter’ about where you’re from or how you speak is harder to define than racism or sexism, but it is damaging.
🖱️ tinyurl.com/5n7p4dr8
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