@JennaGuillaume Here is an attempt at an extremely (*extremely*) truncated version:
1. In August this year, ex-Borders buyer Sue Grimshaw was announced as an editor for Marie Force's publishing company. It was pointed out that her previous buying practices were shady, as was her Twitter history. @JennaGuillaume 2. SG and that company parted ways, but she remained acquisitions editor for Glenfinnan, run by Suzan Tisdale, and ST jumped in with a video to talk about how SG totally wasn't racist, okay?

First up in the final Romance session at #PopCAANZ18: Eric Selinger on disenchantment, modern love, and romance fiction. Selinger: what makes modern love problematic? Illouz borrows from Weber and says it is a "disenchanted thing". #popcaanz18

First up at #popcaanz18 this morning: @MTRamosGarcia, talking about Jane the Virgin, metafiction and bilingualism. Ramos-Garcia: one of the more original features of Jane the Virgin is the omniscient meta-fictional narrator, playing into the tropes of the telenovela. #PopCAANZ18

First #popcaanz18 Romance panel post-lunch begins with Ellen Carter, comparing hero/ine's names in M/F vs M/M romance fiction. Carter's corpus contains 2536 contemporary romance novels, about one third M/M, two thirds M/F, where she studied the phonology of hero/ine names.

First up in Romance at #popcaanz18: @DonnaMHanson, speaking to her survey results about the interactions of romance fiction and feminism. Hanson had about 200 writers and 600 readers respond to her survey - a really rich dataset! #popcaanz18

First up in the final #IASPR18 session: @DonnaMHanson on science fiction romance. Hanson argues that science fiction romance is romance with the "what if?" element of science fiction. #IASPR18

First panel after lunch! First up, Eric Selinger, speaking about love and place in novels by Sherry Thomas. #IASPR18 Selinger: place (including fictive place) plays an important role in Thomas' backstory as well as her books. #IASPR18

Time for Day 3 of #IASPR18! First up, Fang-mei Lin on the topography of romantic love in Taiwanese literature (specifically, the literary novel Orphan of Asia by Wu Zhuoliu). Lin: Orphan of Asia is concerned with deep questions of national identity, but there has been little work done on how this quest for identity intersects with erotic longing. #IASPR18

Day 2 of #IASPR18 is kicking off with @DrStephR, speaking about Georgette Heyer and her unruly eighteenth century. Russo: Heyer, via Austen, virtually created the image of the Regency which is now the setting for so much historical romance. However, she also wrote eighteenth century novels (long 18thc = 1660-1838). #IASPR18

Last panel today at #IASPR18: the keynote, feat. the @PopFicDoctors (@lmfletcher72, @Beth_driscoll, @KimberleyTweets)! Fletcher: studies of romance often begin from a defensive crouch, defending the genre's ideological and literary merits. #IASPR18