How To Keep An Author (Alive)

I'm in a TV/movie slump AND a book slump. I have like 4 books started, a handful of books I want to start but cant, and soooo many books on my multiple TBR piles. So let's just read a short story and see where that takes us. Here's A.J. Sherwood's "How To Keep An Author (Alive)" (available via #BookFunnel).

["The old days of vampires slinking sexily through the night are definitely a thing of the past. Now, vampires hold day jobs like everyone else, and Justus is no exception. The funny thing about living forever is that you still somehow have laundry and bills to deal with.

Enter stage left: JD Cooper, Justus’s new employer. Supposedly, the man is a writing raconteur, known to craft a mean mystery. His skills excel on paper, but suck in reality because he’s one step away from hoarder level. Justus takes the job as his housekeeper, expecting eccentricity.

Which he gets. And so much more."]

and becuase it's all just fucking hilarious, the authors "other tags" ["vampires with day jobs, Justus has it rough, Cooper is a walking disaster, how self-indulgent should I make this, the answer is very, bite kink, book hoarding, this is the least angsty thing I’ve written all year, smother tested, editor approved"]

This book was almost slow burn. The romance snuck up on you. But when it did? Holy. Hell.

Cooper was...Cooper (aka a walking disaster), and Justus kept thinking he was sick or sleep deprived or hungry (because those weird feelings he got around/about Cooper couldn't possibly be Feeling).

This perfectly enchanting novella (as well as AJ's Fated Mates series) makes me want to binge the rest of her things (maybe this novella did help my reading slump...time will only tell).

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