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Jessica Pryde

Tucson

Contributing Editor at Book Riot

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Host at When In Romance

Romance enthusiast. Advocate for Black Joy. When in Romance podcast. Librarian. Singer. Writer: BLACK LOVE MATTERS w/ Berkley, available now! she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Articles

  • June 2025 Romance Reads to Ring in Summer

    5 days ago | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

    Friends, it’s June! Which means we’ve made it almost halfway through the year.

  • Must-listen audiobooks written by Black, neurodivergent creators

    3 weeks ago | audible.com | Jessica Pryde

    Being Black can be difficult in the best of times. Being Black and neurodivergent is even more complex. Due to being medically and socially underserved in so many communities, it has been made significantly more difficult for Black folks to gain the official diagnoses of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other brain differences that lead to the accommodations that help the more privileged maintain successful lives.

  • 17 of the Best New Romance Books Out in May 2025

    1 month ago | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

    This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Happy fifth month, Romance Readers. The horrors persist, but so do we, and thankfully, so do romance authors.

  • 7 Romance Reads Featuring Fanfiction Themes

    1 month ago | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

    8th Note PressBy day, Diana works as a cook. But by night, she escapes into the Sam Raymond fandom, penning smutty real-person fanfiction (RPF) about the dreamy rockstar and dreaming of becoming a professional writer. Meanwhile, the real Sam is privately struggling with panic attacks and a vocal injury. And he's found comfort in an unlikely place: interacting as "S" with a clever fic writer in (embarrassingly) his own fandom.

  • Where Are All the Basketball Romance Books?

    1 month ago | bookriot.com | Jessica Pryde

    This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Or, more specifically: where are the Black basketball players in romance? Every major American sport has had its heyday in romance. There was a time when you couldn’t throw a stick without running into a football romance. Baseball emerged triumphant a few years ago.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading
21 Oct 24

Had to come back on this app to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing…whoo y’all the anti-blackness I can’t even #TheSummit

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading
18 Sep 24

RT @ADHDForReal: https://t.co/o5nbJx2GN3

Jessica Pryde
Jessica Pryde @jessisreading
23 Aug 24

Wouldn’t be that hard for @AmericanAir (and the other airlines) to offer a little bag of popcorn or something that isn’t wheat-based, since it’s currently necessary for gf folks to pay if they want a little snack on a flight while everyone else munches on free cookies or pretzels