Finished reading: Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole 📚
Finished reading: Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole 📚
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ I tore through this one so fast. I think it might partly be because the heroine is a PhD candidate.
Finished reading: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole 📚
My favorite Immortals After Dark book so far. A burlesque dancer becomes a ballerina, ends up a ghost, and falls in love with a vampire who is trapped in the New Orleans Gothic manor that she haunts. 🌹👻🩰
Finished reading: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night by Kresley Cole 📚
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ as always. Werewolves continue to not be my thing but I love witches.
Finished reading: No Rest For The Wicked by Kresley Cole 📚
Listen, all these Immortals After Dark books are 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️, okay? That’s just what’s up. I like this one better than the one that came before it, definitely more my vibe.
I added “Citizen of Romancelandia.” to my bio everywhere.
📚🗨️ “This union was supposed to be for eternity—it followed that their courtship would be extended.” - Kresley Cole, No Rest for the Wicked
See, that’s why W and I were together for 10 years before we got engaged. ("‘Til death do us part" is for quitters.)
Hello, Internet! I hope you have a great day today.
📚 This is your reminder that The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is out today!
Taking a break from academia
I’m taking a deliberate break from all things academia and academia-adjacent.
I spent the past 2 years working on a big project as the key academic personnel on the project. It’s not done; when my contract ended, I had to hand it off to my colleagues. (We couldn’t extend the contract for administrative reasons.)
I’m sitting on a couple of freelance academic opportunities but as I think about pursuing them, I know it’s just not time yet. I can feel internal resistance and it’s telling me that after being in an academic headspace for more than 8 years, it’s time to do something different for a while.
Do I plan to come back to these freelance gigs and be available for academic contract work in the future? Yes. Do I plan to return to FanLIS and fan studies more broadly after I fill my well? Absolutely! But right now, that’s not where I’m at.
It’s kind of like taking a sabbatical.