Author's Log — Why Women in Academia?
People often ask why so many of my stories revolve around female university teachers.
Partly because academia creates a very particular kind of person.
People who think before they speak.
People who analyze before they act.
People who spend years learning how to stay composed.
And perhaps because of that, emotions inside that world rarely move quickly.
What interests me is not love at first sight, but what happens after restraint.
Not dramatic twists, but the quiet negotiations between reason and feeling.
I’m less interested in perfect people than in believable ones.
So these stories are not built around shortcuts.
They are built around choices, hesitation, boundaries—and the consequences that follow.
Because sometimes the most important moments between people are not the ones where they say yes.
But the ones where they almost do.