November 20, 2025

Cover Reveal : The Practice of Attention

Pre Order Bonuses + More

Dear Reader,

Today I am thrilled, delighted, and honored to finally share with you my next book, The Practice of Attention : Cultivating Presence in a Distracted World

Drum roll please for the cover reveal

This book is the backbone of everything I’ve taught — from leaving social media to creative mapping to movement. It’s the clearest articulation of the life I’m building and the life I want for all of us.

Samantha Irby calls it “The only book we need right now” 

The book comes out with St. Martin’s Essentials on March 17 2026. Now I know that is four months away so I have PRE-ORDER BONUSES for you! Head to www.thepracticeofattention.com and pick where you want to pre-order the book from. After you pre-order, come back to the website and upload your receipt so the bonuses can automatically fly to you.

BONUSES :

The Attention Audit Workbook : An inventory system to help you see where your focus is going so you can reclaim your time, energy, and creative capacity. With Notion databases, prompts, and exercises to get back on track when your attention is fractured beyond repair.

No Signal : January 1-7 : A digital detox email course + live workshop for logging off at the beginning of the year

PRE ORDER OPTIONS :

→ Choose Bookshop and order it from your favorite indie bookstore or my little shop. This would be the pathway most supportive of small bookstores.

→ Choose Amazon and you’ll be able to leave a review there and with enough pre-orders and reviews on that website it could be added to some lists. Lists are helpful. Amazon is complicated.

→ Choose Barnes and Noble if you’re really into them or are looking for international shipping options.

→ Other ways : Ask your local bookstore or library to order a copy - hell ask them to order many copies!

Non monetary ways to support

→ Share the link or forward this newsletter to a friend

→ Share the The Practice of Attention website on the internet

→ Leave a comment on this post celebrating this book’s emergence into the world (comments open to all readers)

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→ If you’re my friend text me and say yay Cody you did it

The Practice of Attention is a guide for stepping out of the loops that keep us hooked—so we can return to presence, play, and service. This isn’t an anti-technology book; it’s about reclaiming your time and focus so life feels like it belongs to you again. Moving from digital detox and an attention audit into five grounding practices—creative work, hobbies, movement, research, and spiritual life—you’ll learn how to weave your own retreat or residency into everyday living.

This book is : 

→ For anyone who feels stuck in the loop—scrolling, refreshing, searching—and wondering if freedom exists.

→ For the ones who’ve set every limit, rule, and break, only to fall right back in.

→ For those afraid of stepping away and losing connection, relevance, or belonging.

→ For people craving presence, slowness, and a life that feels like their own again

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I’ve been working on outlining, visioning, dreaming, writing, editing, writing, more editing, tiny edits, big edits, and saying YES over and over again to this book since 2021.

Reading this book out loud to myself during the editing process is what actually got me to finally delete Instagram instead of just deactivate it or take a break. My own work worked me.

I’ll be celebrating on March 18 at Boulder Bookstore and would love to see you there. More tour dates forthcoming, I’m also open to you inviting me places!

Pre-orders matter more than most people realize. They tell my publisher — and bookstores — that this book has a life waiting for it. When you pre-order, you’re helping determine the first print run, the marketing budget, and whether booksellers decide to stock it on shelves. Pre-orders are the quiet math behind a book’s future.

If my work has supported you in any way, this is the moment that supports me the most. I wrote this book for you dear reader, the ones who open this newsletter. Who read every week or when they can get to it. I wrote it for us!

Thank you for letting me write to you for over a decade.
I hope this book becomes a companion for whatever season you’re in next.

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