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Thursday Midday Links:  For $2 you can send a note and a cup of joe to a soldier

Thursday Midday Links: For $2 you can send a note and a cup of joe to a soldier

The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance has posted the schedule for its Second Annual Conference on Popular Romance Studies. This year, the conference is in Brussels, Belgium, generously supported by RWA and two Belgian funding sources, KVAB and FWO. The conference is 5-7 August, 2010. The schedule is up. And summaries of(…)

Thursday Morning News Links: ePub May Be Winning the Format War

One of the barriers of entry for ebook reading is the myriad of formats but the headache might be easing for readers. Sony has announced it will drop its own proprietary ebook format, BBeB (also known as LRF), and sell ONLY epub format. I think it makes sense for the consumer to either buy epub(…)

IASPR Open for Business

The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is open for membership! Go to the website and click on the “Join Today!” link. Or just go straight to the membership page! (Through the power of PayPal, they take all comers and all our various currencies all over the world. It is, after all, the(…)

Final Call For Papers for Brisbane Romance Conference

POPULAR ROMANCE STUDIES An International Conference August 13-14, 2009 Brisbane, Australia Sponsored by The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) University of Queensland Queensland University of Technology Romance Writers of America For decades, scholars have studied popular romance, whether in romance novels, films, comics, or other media. They have studied its sexual(…)

Call for Applications: IASPR and JPRS

(Posted by Joan/Sarah F., acting in her academic capacity as Dr. Sarah Frantz. While being Joan is usually much more fun, IASPR/JPRS is a very cool thing, too!) We’re finally getting things off the ground with both the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) and the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS).(…)