Y’all. This should be a fancy-ass, glossy post where I breezily tell you about something I’m so excited about and I should be wearing a suit while talking to a news anchor as I toss my hair back and laugh confidently while not doing that anxiety-based blinking tic that comes on every fucking time I tell myself to not do that anxiety-based blinking tic.
Instead, I am writing this from under two cats while in my daytime pajamas with two inches of grey roots and blinking hard like a motherfucker. BUT…I’m also really happy because GUESS WHAT? NEW BOOK, Y’ALL:
This book is just as unhinged and baffling as my others, but it’s a little different. Two years ago when Hailey went off to college I fell into a pretty deep depression and felt utterly unmoored. I had a hard time living and writing and just being human, so I started using all of the tools and tricks that I’ve collected in the many decades I’ve lived with depression, anxiety, ADHD, executive dysfunction, squirrel-brain infestation, memory problems, etc to pull myself out. And I realized that all of these tricks that I rely on to save me are actually a pretty amazing toolbox of things that might help others too. This book pools together all of those strange hacks that keep me alive in spite of myself and that keep me creating even when it’s hard. Some are logical. Some are funny. Some are absolutely ridiculous. But together they are a quick-start manual that helped me to stay here, to keep finding joy even when it’s hard, and to stay creative in a world (and brain) that doesn’t always prioritize expression. They may speak a little more to those with my same issues, but I think they can help everyone who deals with fear, memory, focus issues, weariness of the world, doom-scrolling, introversion, artistic block, imposter syndrome, dumpster fires, or who just needs a little voice in their corner offering encouragement and reminding them that it will be okay.
I’ll have so much more to say about this book in the months to come, but for now…want to see the cover?
And you can preorder it today! Click here to preorder and keep that page bookmarked because I’ll be updating it with book tour dates and locations. I haven’t toured in so long that I don’t even know where to go so feel free to leave suggestions in the comments if you have a local place that you love.
I hope that it helps you to read it as much as it helped me to write it.