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Period 15
April 14, 2023
Book news My tour dates are now all official! I really hope you’ll come see me at some of these venues. April 26th at The Literary Book Bar in Champaign IL...
Period 14: pull that string
April 7, 2023
Book news If you’ve gotten an early copy of the book, you may have found where I joke that I will not be providing instructions for IUD self-removal. However...
Lucky number thirteen periods… which is the average number most people have in a year!
March 31, 2023
Book news Did you pre-order from Bookshop? Then you should already have a copy! Did you pre-order from Barnes and Noble? Those pre-orders will start to...
A dozen periods is called a clot: a giveaway, and the four wolves inside me
March 15, 2023
Ok that’s not true. But, shouldn’t it be? Can we make it a thing? Or maybe, a dozen menstruating people is a clot? I feel like we could design a pretty...
Period #11, in honor of Cocaine Bear
February 24, 2023
Book news My first official book review is in, from Publishers Weekly! And it’s good!!! Addressing what might be my favorite chapter, the reviewer writes:...
Period #10: Grumpfest, then period inflammation
February 17, 2023
Well, the newsletter has made it to double digits! I had to skip last week’s newsletter because it was a whole big catch-up week. This week was too, and...
Period #9
February 3, 2023
Well, for the first time in three years I’m sick. I am grateful it’s not covid, but still feeling very whiny and sorry for myself with this unpleasant head...
Period #8, open this one today for mysterious reasons!
January 27, 2023
Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off all pre-orders sale and it ends tonight (Friday Jan 27). If you’ve been wanting to pre-order my book now would be a...
Lucky Number Seven: BIG NEWS
January 20, 2023
And lucky this newsletter is, to me at least. Because I have big news! I’m writing another book! Last year, as I was wrapping up final edits on PERIOD, I...
Half a dozen periods
January 13, 2023
It’s the first full week I’ve had childcare since mid-December, and the semester here at Illinois starts next week. Of course I’m blowing up and piecing back...
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