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Laura Vivanco
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Independent scholar of popular romance fiction (www.vivanco.me.uk/), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (www.jprstudies.org/) My database of scholarship about romance novels: rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
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Christine Larson's Love in the Time of Self-Publishing How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success is out now www.degruyter.com/document/doi... (in ebook).

Labor arrangements and networks don’t have to be the way they are. As a thought experiment, for instance, media scholar Angela McRobbie asks how creative work might be organized differently had production structures not originally been designed by and for men. “What would it mean to bring a feminist perspective to bear on social and cultural entrepreneurship?” she asks. What might “new forms of community and cultural economy” look like?

I believe it might look a lot like Romancelandia.
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She's arguing there's a lot to learn from Romancelandia about precarious work, albeit "The network never served all authors equally or fairly. For far too long, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and other marginalized writers reaped less advantage [...] than white, heterosexual authors" (3).

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Laura Vivanco
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Independent scholar of popular romance fiction (www.vivanco.me.uk/), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (www.jprstudies.org/) My database of scholarship about romance novels: rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
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