THIRTY cover reveal
my new book, coming december 1st
Hi everyone,
Writing in with something special this week: the cover of my new book!
A fun, fully illustrated guide to the decade of major milestones and surprising setbacks—celebrating the flailing, failing, and figuring out.
⭐️Coming this December, available for preorder now!
*Save your receipt, you will get a treat! Stay tuned!
THIRTY is an array of disorienting, thrilling, disappointing, hilarious, and grounding experiences in all the most important areas of life—from home to career, through family and love—offering ways I’ve been able to find rich-ness in the flailing. Despite all that we’ve been told, our thirties are actually made more valuable by not having everything figured out.
As a reader of this newsletter you’ve sort of had a behind-the-scenes peek into what’s gone into writing it. You’ve witnessed my cooking meltdowns, revelations in dating, anxious first steps into pet adoption, general growing up, really—at an age where I’d expected to be fully-formed (we’re never fully formed).
THIRTY will be available for preorder soon—with a chance to snag some merch. Follow me on Instagram to stay in the loop!
Here are snippets of the book proposal to give you a taste:
This book is an exhale into thirty. A friend to lay awake with you at 3am in a hotel room at a friend’s wedding weekend and debrief the dizzying swarm of engagement rings in the buffet line while lightly high on mushroom chocolates and furiously capturing drug-fueled revelations re “the source” on your notes app as you have intermittent diarrhea. (Best friends make the best wedding plus ones and no past, present or future level of coupledom will challenge that truth. I do want a boyfriend and both things can be true).
With my cat, Fran, as my co-narrator, I think of it like a grown-up Amelia’s Notebook meets Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It’s the perfect gift for anyone circling the mythologized decade—either trembling at its threshold, or in it, riding its many waves of change.
I’ve poured the past 4ish messy years into this book and I can’t wait to share it with you.
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