Books by Katie Rose Guest Pryal

**Winner of the GOLD Medal in the 2019 INDIE Book of the Year Awards.**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

Academia isn’t an easy place to be if your brain isn’t quite right.Colleagues carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” Another colleague is fired—easy enough to do these days, when most college teachers no longer have tenure—for “instability.” In these ways and many more, psychiatrically disabled people working in higher education are reminded every day that their privilege, their very livelihoods, can be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. Their lives can be, in an instant, interrupted.The essays in this book cover topics such as disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. Written for a popular audience, for those with disabilities and for those who want to learn more about living a disabled life, Life of the Mind Interrupted aims to make higher education, and the rest of our society, more humane."Katie Rose Guest Pryal is one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today." —Catherine J. Prendergast, Ph.D., Professor of Disability Studies

From the IPPY-award-winning author of Entanglement comes a novel of family tragedy, a young woman's sacrifice, and how love can save us from our darkest places.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 NightThe Hollywood Lights Series is a series of standalone, romantic women's fiction full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.

From the IPPY-award-winning author of Entanglement comes a novel of friendship, tragedy, and one woman's journey to self-forgiveness and love.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 MorettiThe Hollywood Lights Series is a series of standalone, romantic women's fiction full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.

From IPPY-award-winning author Katie Rose Guest Pryal, the #1 Amazon bestseller full of romance and suspense, Hollywood style.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 ExperiencesThe Hollywood Lights Series is a series of standalone, romantic women's fiction full of suspense, family drama, deep friendship ties, and happily ever afters. The series is now complete.