Crystal Jordan, PhD
@crystaljordan.bsky.social
Academic librarian / award-winning author. Writer of spicy PNR and SFF romance. Lover of tea, travel, books, yarn, and plants. Unapologetic nerd. California native. Proud citizen of Romancelandia. She/her. Demi 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.crystaljordan.com
www.crystaljordan.com
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Writing and reading romance is an act of positive psychology and an act of resistance. Keep pissing them off, #Romancelandia!
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Woke up with "Jenny from the Block" earworming in my head this morning. Why? No clue. I haven't actually heard this song in years.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Woke up with "Jenny from the Block" earworming in my head this morning. Why? No clue. I haven't actually heard this song in years.
GETTING IT RIGHT is out today!
Grumpy single dad horror novelist meets sunshiny artist. Sarcasm and shenanigans ensue.
books2read.com/u/4X18Va
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance #romancereader #booksky
Grumpy single dad horror novelist meets sunshiny artist. Sarcasm and shenanigans ensue.
books2read.com/u/4X18Va
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance #romancereader #booksky
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
GETTING IT RIGHT is out today!
Grumpy single dad horror novelist meets sunshiny artist. Sarcasm and shenanigans ensue.
books2read.com/u/4X18Va
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance #romancereader #booksky
Grumpy single dad horror novelist meets sunshiny artist. Sarcasm and shenanigans ensue.
books2read.com/u/4X18Va
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance #romancereader #booksky
Regular boyfriend: Sends good morning texts
Paranormal romance hero: Fights off rival packs/covens while declaring you're his fated mate
Yeah, I know which I prefer. 🔥
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
Paranormal romance hero: Fights off rival packs/covens while declaring you're his fated mate
Yeah, I know which I prefer. 🔥
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Regular boyfriend: Sends good morning texts
Paranormal romance hero: Fights off rival packs/covens while declaring you're his fated mate
Yeah, I know which I prefer. 🔥
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
Paranormal romance hero: Fights off rival packs/covens while declaring you're his fated mate
Yeah, I know which I prefer. 🔥
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
My librarian colleague and me today...
Her: Forget giving people the stick or the carrot. They don't need to be spoiled with a carrot, just give them the stick!
Me: Girl, you are so Gen X sometimes, it's painful.
Her: (grinning) Especially when I'm the one swinging the stick.
Her: Forget giving people the stick or the carrot. They don't need to be spoiled with a carrot, just give them the stick!
Me: Girl, you are so Gen X sometimes, it's painful.
Her: (grinning) Especially when I'm the one swinging the stick.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My librarian colleague and me today...
Her: Forget giving people the stick or the carrot. They don't need to be spoiled with a carrot, just give them the stick!
Me: Girl, you are so Gen X sometimes, it's painful.
Her: (grinning) Especially when I'm the one swinging the stick.
Her: Forget giving people the stick or the carrot. They don't need to be spoiled with a carrot, just give them the stick!
Me: Girl, you are so Gen X sometimes, it's painful.
Her: (grinning) Especially when I'm the one swinging the stick.
What's your paranormal romance mood today?
🌙 Forbidden vampire love
🐺 Fated mate shifters
✨ Witches with attitude
🖤 ALL the supernatural chaos
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
🌙 Forbidden vampire love
🐺 Fated mate shifters
✨ Witches with attitude
🖤 ALL the supernatural chaos
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What's your paranormal romance mood today?
🌙 Forbidden vampire love
🐺 Fated mate shifters
✨ Witches with attitude
🖤 ALL the supernatural chaos
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
🌙 Forbidden vampire love
🐺 Fated mate shifters
✨ Witches with attitude
🖤 ALL the supernatural chaos
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
Happy Day of the Dead, friends!
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happy Day of the Dead, friends!
Happy Halloween! 🎃 May your night include:
✨ Magic that doesn't backfire
🐺 Shifters who claim you as their mate
🧛 Vampires with excellent consent
🖤 At least ONE book boyfriend
What paranormal romance are you reading tonight?
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
✨ Magic that doesn't backfire
🐺 Shifters who claim you as their mate
🧛 Vampires with excellent consent
🖤 At least ONE book boyfriend
What paranormal romance are you reading tonight?
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 May your night include:
✨ Magic that doesn't backfire
🐺 Shifters who claim you as their mate
🧛 Vampires with excellent consent
🖤 At least ONE book boyfriend
What paranormal romance are you reading tonight?
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
✨ Magic that doesn't backfire
🐺 Shifters who claim you as their mate
🧛 Vampires with excellent consent
🖤 At least ONE book boyfriend
What paranormal romance are you reading tonight?
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
These people are lucky they're in South Carolina. With wildfire season still in full swing in SoCal, it wouldn't just be 1% of the neighbors calling the fire department in absolute panic. 🔥😱 🚒
Halloween home displays causing controversy
From a realistic depiction of a house on fire to a yard full of body bags that led to a man’s arrest, some say home Halloween displays this year may be going too far. NBC News’ George Solis…
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These people are lucky they're in South Carolina. With wildfire season still in full swing in SoCal, it wouldn't just be 1% of the neighbors calling the fire department in absolute panic. 🔥😱 🚒
This Halloween, I'm dressing as someone who has their TBR under control. Scariest costume I could think of. 👻📚
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This Halloween, I'm dressing as someone who has their TBR under control. Scariest costume I could think of. 👻📚
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
#romancelandia #romancereader #romance #booksky #pnr #paranormalromance
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Libraries are political!!!!!!!! !!!!
You want your library's doors open? - Funding
You want more open hours? - Funding
You want better pay? - Funding
You want bigger collections? - Funding
You want more services? - Funding
BUT - Funding = Politics
#library #libraries #libraryfunding #libraryadvocacy #librarianship
You want more open hours? - Funding
You want better pay? - Funding
You want bigger collections? - Funding
You want more services? - Funding
BUT - Funding = Politics
#library #libraries #libraryfunding #libraryadvocacy #librarianship
October 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Libraries are political!!!!!!!! !!!!
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.
ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up
Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshaled a team of lawyers on his behalf.
Me to my characters: MUST YOU BE SUCH IRREDEEMABLE ASSHOLES???
Them: You made us.
Me: Don't pretend like I'm in charge NOW, fuckers.
Them: Wait, who's driving this thing?
Me: ...
Them: ...
#writerlife #amwriting #romancelandia #romancereader #booksky
Them: You made us.
Me: Don't pretend like I'm in charge NOW, fuckers.
Them: Wait, who's driving this thing?
Me: ...
Them: ...
#writerlife #amwriting #romancelandia #romancereader #booksky
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Me to my characters: MUST YOU BE SUCH IRREDEEMABLE ASSHOLES???
Them: You made us.
Me: Don't pretend like I'm in charge NOW, fuckers.
Them: Wait, who's driving this thing?
Me: ...
Them: ...
#writerlife #amwriting #romancelandia #romancereader #booksky
Them: You made us.
Me: Don't pretend like I'm in charge NOW, fuckers.
Them: Wait, who's driving this thing?
Me: ...
Them: ...
#writerlife #amwriting #romancelandia #romancereader #booksky
Thanks, NYT, but I think I'll stick to the Rock Horror Picture Show. That's about as much "horror" as my psyche can handle. 😱
#halloween #RHPS #horror #scaredycat #authorlife
#halloween #RHPS #horror #scaredycat #authorlife
30 Classic Horror Movies to Stream (Gift Article)
From silent monsters to digital-age demons, these scary-movie cornerstones are available to scream — sorry, stream.
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thanks, NYT, but I think I'll stick to the Rock Horror Picture Show. That's about as much "horror" as my psyche can handle. 😱
#halloween #RHPS #horror #scaredycat #authorlife
#halloween #RHPS #horror #scaredycat #authorlife
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Cuts to federal funding are already making impacts in communities nationwide. Library workers worry about domino effects: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2025/10/13/librarians-sound-alarm-as-trump-administration-takes-aim-at-agency-that-supports-museums--libraries #ForOurLibraries
Librarians sound alarm as Trump admin takes aim at IMLS
Back in March, the President signed an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as part of his effort to reduce the size and cost of the government.
spectrumlocalnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Cuts to federal funding are already making impacts in communities nationwide. Library workers worry about domino effects: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/politics/2025/10/13/librarians-sound-alarm-as-trump-administration-takes-aim-at-agency-that-supports-museums--libraries #ForOurLibraries
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
"But read looking backward, having seen all that came later, the nurse novels come to look like more than a curiosity."
Fanny Howe Found Her Voice in the Romance Novel
In nurse romances written under a pseudonym, Howe began working through the questions that would sustain and bewilder her.
newrepublic.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"But read looking backward, having seen all that came later, the nurse novels come to look like more than a curiosity."
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If you love @lenikauffman.bsky.social's work as much as I do or have ever been curious about our partnership--we've worked on so many projects together, and she's slayed every single cover--please join us this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on Instagram via @avonbooks!
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you love @lenikauffman.bsky.social's work as much as I do or have ever been curious about our partnership--we've worked on so many projects together, and she's slayed every single cover--please join us this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on Instagram via @avonbooks!
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics, an AP-NORC poll finds, after the key group helped his return to the White House.
Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics since January, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics, an AP-NORC poll finds, after the key group helped his return to the White House.
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Idk, guys, I think we've seen this before....
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Idk, guys, I think we've seen this before....
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
Health insurance is not healthcare.
It’s an unnecessary middleman designed to restrict access to healthcare and transfer wealth upwards by exploiting people for profit.
Medicare for All:
$0 premiums
$0 deductibles
$0 copays
…and would cut spending by $650 billion per year
It’s an unnecessary middleman designed to restrict access to healthcare and transfer wealth upwards by exploiting people for profit.
Medicare for All:
$0 premiums
$0 deductibles
$0 copays
…and would cut spending by $650 billion per year
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Health insurance is not healthcare.
It’s an unnecessary middleman designed to restrict access to healthcare and transfer wealth upwards by exploiting people for profit.
Medicare for All:
$0 premiums
$0 deductibles
$0 copays
…and would cut spending by $650 billion per year
It’s an unnecessary middleman designed to restrict access to healthcare and transfer wealth upwards by exploiting people for profit.
Medicare for All:
$0 premiums
$0 deductibles
$0 copays
…and would cut spending by $650 billion per year
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling. "In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know." #Tolkien #BookSky
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling. "In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know." #Tolkien #BookSky
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Bird Flu Is Back. Here’s What to Know...
Bird Flu Is Back. Here’s What to Know
After a quiet summer, bird flu cases are rising again. Scientists expected the development, but what happens next is still uncertain
www.scientificamerican.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Bird Flu Is Back. Here’s What to Know...
Reposted by Crystal Jordan, PhD
BREAKING: Social Security recipients will get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, reflecting an average increase of $56 per month.
Social Security recipients get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, average of $56 per month
The Social Security cost-of-living increase will go up by 2.8% in 2026, which translates to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
BREAKING: Social Security recipients will get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026, reflecting an average increase of $56 per month.