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Blog post:: I'm so tired of television shows and movies that can't imagine women outside of basic tropes. That can't imagine female friendships. That can't imagine female experiences—including female pain—outside of a few certain experiences. There is so much life that women experience but we rarely see it on screen because women aren't in writer's rooms or behind the camera.2 months ago Read more
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Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right.
“I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’”
In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins.
People carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” A colleague is fired for “instability.” Pryal learned that, as a psychiatrically disabled person working in higher education, her very livelihood could be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others.
But the problem persists beyond academia.
With candor and grace, these essays discuss the disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. While harrowing at times, Pryal’s story is ultimately one of hope. With this memoir, she aims to make higher education—and all of our society—more humane.
“Pryal writes with a refreshing and raw honesty.” -New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti
“Pryal’s wit and humor shine through even as she tackles harrowing subjects, like living with depression and suicide.” -Award-winning author Kelly J. Baker.
The Complete Legal Writer, a legal research and writing handbook, takes a novel approach: it uses genre discovery to teach students to guide themselves through the process of writing unfamiliar legal document types. Readers learn to write independently and to transfer their knowledge to upper-level classes and the workplace. The book also teaches research and citation literacy as integrated parts of the writing process.
For each legal genre covered in the book (e.g., memo, trial brief), The Complete Legal Writer provides (1) three strong samples, (2) an analysis of the genre, and (3) specific questions to guide students as they study the samples. Another of the book’s innovations is its chapters on giving and receiving feedback—essential legal writing skills that novice lawyers often must teach themselves. The second edition features updates throughout; new chapters on revision, editing, and giving feedback; and an appendix on conducting electronic research.
The book is also supported by a companion website: completelegalwriter.com
Higher education has changed—and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.
When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right—she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track? But this is higher ed in the new millennium. “Off track” is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed “the freelance academic” in a long-running column in The Chronicle of Higher Education of the same name.
Five years after leaving academia, Pryal has created a living for herself. In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher ed has pushed its workforce to the margins. Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive.
“With candor and vulnerability, Pryal shares her own experiences and hard-fought wisdom to make a compelling case for a rewarding professional life beyond the walls of traditional academia.” -Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning novelist and author of Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Law—and Back Again
“An indictment of how the academy squanders talent by embracing the gig economy through contingent labor and the devaluation of teaching. A new, necessary book.” -Catherine J. Prendergast, Ph.D., author of Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
From the bestselling author of Life of the Mind Interrupted comes an essay collection “rich in vulnerability and candor.”
How do we make a good life in a world where sexual violence always lurks in the shadows?
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, rape survivor, law professor, and bestselling author, takes on the rapidly changing legal and social landscape of #MeToo and Title IX. Moving from the deeply personal to the socially critical, the essays in this collection are incisive dispatches from survivor territory.
In these fiery essays, Pryal documents reporting her rape to a university Title IX office, in grim, yet hilarious, detail. She turns her law-trained eye to the Bill Cosby case and the musician Kesha’s struggle to break free of her recording contract because of alleged abuse by her producer. This book is for survivors, those who love them, and those who want to make the world a better place for them. These stories strip away shame. They burn off fear. They lay bare the injustices survivors face and how we can fight them. Best of all, Pryal shows how she has fought those injustices herself—and by showing us, she inspires us to do the same.
“Rich in vulnerability and candor, Pryal’s evocative essays remind us that the survivor journey is far from linear, and that there is power and beauty in our imperfect journey.” -Andrea Pino, co-author of We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
How do you find love when your biggest secret is an unforgivable sin?
Charlie George, Los Angeles attorney, seems to have a perfect life. A sky-high apartment. A drool-worth sports car. A fast-track to partner in a prestigious firm. And a face that would make angels weep. But his drive for perfection is no accident: he carries a secret so ugly that he can never forgive himself. The best he can do is craft the perfect career to carry on his family legacy. He can never let anyone close—his awful past would drive them away.
Tory Murphy has seen it all—at least three or four times. As an emergency medicine doctor, she’s patched up more bullet wounds than she can count. She can diagnose a patient—or anyone—at twenty paces. But Charlie George still manages to keep his secrets from her, even after three years of friendship. And although she senses the heat between them, he’s always held her at arm’s length.
When a terrible homicide case lands on Charlie’s desk, it sets off a bomb that leaves him reeling. His façade shredded, Charlie loses the perfect life he’s built. The only good thing left in his life is Tory—and his undeniable love for her. But is love enough to pull Charlie back from the brink of self-destruction?
"Do not miss this emotional tour-de-force—or anything Pryal writes." -Washington Post bestselling author Kelly Harms
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
Underneath the glitter of Hollywood, nothing is truly as it seems.
Daphne Saito is a talented screenwriter with a seemingly perfect life—a life so fragile it might crumble at any moment.
For Daphne, love always brings disaster. She’s worked hard to bury her troubled past, but now that her best friend is getting married, her world is upended as her past mistakes catch up with her—and threaten the people she loves most.
While planning her friend’s wedding, she meets Marlon—he’s surly on the the outside, and maybe just as damaged as Daphne. But he makes her feel something she hasn’t felt in years—hope. She dares to get close to him, but a tragic turn leaves her with an impossible choice.
The night of the wedding brings a perfect storm of chaos: A dangerous ex-boyfriend is bent on revenge. A woman from Daphne’s past blows into town with a vendetta of her own. Someone Daphne loves gets caught in the middle, a friend she’ll do anything to protect—even if it means committing a horrible act that she can never take back.
“As glamorous and mercurial as Hollywood itself, Chasing Chaos is a novel that glitters.” -New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge
“Pryal deftly portrays relationships that are under the magnifying glass, obsessive and dysfunctional, while still capturing the complexity and love.” -New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
Fractured family, deadly secrets, and a woman on the run in L.A.
The day she buries her mother, Miranda George jumps on a plane from North Carolina, telling no one where she's heading. She wants to disappear and start over. She arrives on the Los Angeles doorstep of college friend Daphne Saito, and even though Miranda hasn't seen Daphne in years, Daphne welcomes Miranda into her home and her makeshift L.A. family.
The problem is, Miranda is on the run from family. All family. Family, in Miranda's experience, can get you killed.
Miranda takes off again, but this time her plan is much more sinister. She certainly doesn't expect her friends to track her down. They bring her back from the edge, but will Miranda be able to save herself and her newfound friendships? Or will she remain strangled by the past?
“A love story wrapped inside a heart-rending struggle for personal freedom.” -Washington Post bestselling author Sonja Yoerg
“A dangerous, sexy, motorcycle ride of a story, which pulls off the feat of being both humorous and heartbreaking at the same time." -Sandra Block, author of What Happened That Night
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
"Me too. It happened to me too."
More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so—share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities, and loves. Theirs is a bold, irrefutable sampling of voices and stories that should speak to all.
A princess, a pauper, and a dog…
From the outside, it might seem like Miranda George has the perfect life—a wealthy family, a great education, a good paralegal job after college in her parents’ law firm. But all is not what it seems. When she’s assigned to Matthias Pino, the newest hire of The George Law Firm, she believes that he’ll be just like any other baby lawyer her parents have hired over the years: narcissistic, self-satisfied, and vain.
When Matthias Pino meets Miranda George, the princess of Winston-Salem, he doesn’t try to wine and dine her. Instead, he shows her where he grew up, in the trailer parks outside of Winston-Salem. He takes her to his brother’s dog rescue farm instead of to a fancy brunch. If she’s going to choose him, he wants her to choose the real him.
But when a family nightmare threatens to drag them apart, Matthias learns that Miranda isn’t nearly as tough as she seems, and Miranda learns that the hardest thing to do is to—quite simply—stay.
"You'll be left wanting more of the Hollywood Lights Series as soon as the last page is turned!" -Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning author of The Truth About Thea
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
A tension-filled weekend at a lake house will change the lives of two unlikely friends forever.
One hot, North Carolina summer, Daphne Saito and her boyfriend Sutton encounter awkward physics geek Greta Donovan, a fellow college student at elite Cameron University. But while Daphne sees Greta as someone worth befriending, Sutton's motives are far from pure.
A romantic spark and a cruel joke send Greta and Daphne’s new friendship into a tailspin over a weekend vacation. Will the trio's lives in end tragedy? Or redemption?
A retelling of My Fair Lady that is filled with unexpected heroism, Love and Entropy reveals what can happen when we let our vision of what others should be cloud our vision of who they are.
“Poignant and thoroughly entertaining, this is a novella you won't be able to walk away from ... and you'll think about long after the last page. Fantastic read!” -Kristy Woodson Harvey, bestselling author of Lies and Other Acts of Love
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
One deadly night will change two friends forever in this dazzling story of love and betrayal.
For Greta Donovan, happiness was always out of reach. Everyone betrayed her. No one could be trusted.
Desperate to leave her painful past behind, she flees to Los Angeles and moves in with her best friend, Daphne, an ambitious Hollywood up-and-comer, and befriends an aging movie star who’s like the father she never had.
Soon, Greta has it all: a blossoming career, friends she can trust, and a new love who wants to give her the world. She can’t imagine her life being any better. But in Hollywood, nothing is truly as is seems.
In one tragic night, Greta may lose it all. Daphne makes an outrageous decision that puts Greta in the path of a dangerous man who’s bent on revenge. With the attacker on the loose, Greta’s world spins out of control—and her future hinges on one secret she doesn’t want to tell. Her friends rally to save her—but will they be too late?
“Equal parts heartbreaking and heartening, Entanglement shines a light on the interior lives of two flawed and fascinating women.” -Camille Pagán, bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
This series of standalone, romantic women's fiction is full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.
In academia, as well as in popular culture, the prefix "neuro-" now occurs with startling frequency. Scholars now publish research in the fields of neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuromarketing, neuropolitics, and neuroeducation. Consumers are targeted with enhanced products and services, such as brain-based training exercises, and babies are kept on a strict regimen of brain music, brain videos, and brain games. The chapters in this book investigate the rhetorical appeal, effects, and implications of this prefix, neuro-, and carefully consider the potential collaborative work between rhetoricians and neuroscientists. Drawing on the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of rhetorical study, Neurorhetorics questions how discourses about the brain construct neurological differences, such as mental illness or intelligence measures. Working at the nexus of rhetoric and neuroscience, the authors explore how to operationalize rhetorical inquiry into neuroscience in meaningful ways. They account for the production, dissemination, and appeal of neuroscience research findings, revealing what rhetorics about the brain mean for contemporary public discourse.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
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