It's a bunch of funny posts about how academics are losers. Did you feel like you had a community like that?ĪH: When I was back in grad school, I was obsessed with this Twitter account that's called “Shit Academics Say.” It was definitely an inspiration for both Bee and Levi's Twitter accounts. It's such an honor to know that something that I've written speaks to someone who's in a similar situation.īTW: Bee is behind the popular Twitter account where women in STEM tell their stories and exchange advice. Hearing all these things is such a blessing. There have been so many people who have told me, I read your story about a woman in science and I am a woman in science myself, I really feel seen, or it resonates with me because I have lived a similar experience, or this rings true based on what I know. All of these things are so terrifying in person, but when you explore them within books, you demystify them a little bit. Like losing your funding, or your mentor leaving because of something that happened to me, or feeling like your experiments are not doing well, or feeling like your career is stalling. They don’t sound as scary when you're writing about them in a rom-com. There was a little bit of a catharsis I can take some of the things that I really don't like about my life in the lab, or my life in academia, and I can kind of make fun of them and exercise them a little bit. It was something I was living every day and there were some parts of it that were kind of a struggle, and I wanted to put it on paper. I was very stressed out in grad school, and it was just a fun idea of a bunch of characters that I really loved - how would they react if they were in my situation? If they were in grad school, what would be their way of acting and dealing with the type of hardships that I'm dealing with? That’s how I started incorporating elements of science and academia into what I was writing and the books that I’m writing right now are very much a continuation of that fanfiction.īTW: As your next “STEMinist rom-com book,” can you share more about women in STEM and why it’s important in your writing?ĪH: I started writing about women in STEM it felt closest to my lived experience. Originally I was just really writing fanfiction set in academic settings, which I know sounds a little bit weird, but I think it's because I was in the last year of my PhD. At least, I feel like most of the authors that I talked to had been writing for a while, but I started in my late 20s. I got into writing fiction very, very late. I decided to go into neuroscience and ended up combining quantitative psychology and neuroscience because I still do a lot of stats stuff. I remember taking my first neurobiology class and being obsessed with the idea that the structure of our brain, of our nervous system, can influence the way we are able to process things the way we are. I remember being really young and already being interested about this whole wiring stuff - why are some people one way and other people another way?
I always felt like I was a very anxious person, and I didn’t quite understand why I was worried about everything all the time and some of my friends weren’t. Here, Bookselling This Week talked about writing the book with Hazelwood.īookselling This Week: What inspired you to pursue a PhD in neuroscience and then incorporate your knowledge into writing contemporary romance?Īli Hazelwood: Growing up, I was just very interested in individual differences between people - why some people find some things really, really easy and others find them hard. “Ali Hazelwood has done it again! This is NOT a novel that you can read a few pages here, a few pages there - it demands one sitting,” said Stefanie Lynn of The Kennett Bookhouse in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. “With expert pacing, witty humor, and loveable characters, Love on the Brain is this fall’s hot romantic comedy!”
Bee Königswasser, a Marie Curie enthusiast, as she lands her dream neuroengineering project working at NASA for the summer she finds herself co-leading the project with her former graduate school archenemy, the handsome Dr. Independent booksellers across the country have chosen Ali Hazelwoods’s Love on the Brain (Berkley) as their top pick for the September 2022 Indie Next List.
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