Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Leigh Bardugo Answered.

This special edition is part of our Guest Prudie series, where we ask smart, thoughtful people to step in as Prudie for the day and give you advice. Today's columnist is number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. She is the author of the books The Familiar, Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. We asked Bardugo to weigh in on "romantic" gestures gone wrong, conversational vampires, and vocal dogs: I recently met a man on a dating app. We hit it off quickly. We were texting all of the time about work, writing, and the world--often getting pretty flirty. I was having tons of fun. He was charming and seemed to me conspicuously brilliant.