The Update: June 2025

All the links, recs, and good things from last month.

Really, the BIGGEST and only news is that I finished my first full draft of No One Loves An Angry Woman. I knew I had finished because I broke down into full body sobs as soon as I closed the document — all the energy I had been doling out in a steady stream suddenly freed. I didn’t realize how much I was holding back until I was no longer holding it so tightly.

I haven’t looked at the manuscript since that moment, but some of my favorite peers are reading it now, giving me vital notes that will help make it better. The editing process starts in late July, then it will be out of my hands for good come September.

If you want to celebrate this milestone with me, the best way is by subscribing to this newsletter. If you already subscribe, thank you! Maybe you’ll share a favorite post? Or hell, a congratulations goes a long way too. This book was a lot to write, and I loved the process of writing it almost as much as I cried over it (so much!).

ICYMI

• Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward has been out of stock everywhere for a while now but it’s now available in both hardback and paperback editions (and not just on Amazon! yay!).

  

• I wrote about the troubling rise of male feminist influencers, and how swiftly they eclipse the very feminists whose writing and philosophy they tout.

Upcoming Events

• Stay tuned for a new book proposal writing course coming out this Fall, as well as a reboot of my 6-week freelance writing course with a complimentary 1:1 pitch review with in-depth editing notes included.

Links & Recs

I don’t know dudes, go outside. Preferably near water. Hope your kid doesn’t get pinkeye during the 7 hour roadtrip to a National Park that you planned 6 months ago as your big summer trip.

Okay, okay:

• Melissa Petro
  author of Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification is hosting a FREE generative writing workshop on July 9th.
  

• Nancy Reddy
  is hosting Summer Fridays, live chats with authors to help get you inspired to write.
  

• This airbnb in Bodega Bay is my dream cabin. If you’re ever there, don’t hesitate to book it. I sat in the cozy window nook and read for hours.

• I somehow just got around to reading Dear Writer by

  Maggie Smith
  , and cannot recommend it highly enough — if just for the syllabus alone. I wrote 4(!) new poems, at least two of them decent, during the weekend I read it.
  

• Currently obsessed with the Chocolate Chip Pain Au Lait from Trader Joe’s. With a cup of tea, enjoyed outside before it gets too hot out? Perfection.
  

• Nice sunscreen is the splurge I didn’t know I needed, but it makes a beach day so much better (it doesn’t leak into my eyes, doesn’t give me breakouts, and it smells so good).