Starting in January I will be doing a monthly Zoom office hours for paid subscribers where you can ask me anything about publishing, influencers, media, life, kids, travel, etc. The annual subscription price is only going to be $30 until 2025 and then it will go back up to $70. So it’s a great deal! Join us! I’ll be talking about how I make money as a full-time creative, what I’m doing to make my own marriage and child-rearing more of an equal endeavor and all of my thoughts on how to fix how badly social media is fucking us up!
Our New Years plans have been somewhat dampened by a bout of the kid stomach flu. We still plan to jump in a freezing cold creek tomorrow and there may be sundown karaoke in my future. But right now I am sitting in front of a fire after screaming at my children to go outside and procrastinating novel writing by watching the Ballerina Farm children wield fullsized knives in the kitchen. Yes. she is continuing to troll us for controversy and views.
While this child was chopping garlic mine poured themselves a bowl of Cheerios and I felt like the mom of the goddamn year. We all parent differently friends.
In fun news The Sicilian Inheritance has reached more than 80k in sales and it is all because of the incredible word of mouth from all of you. Thank you for posting and sharing and gifting. I wanted to share a screenshot of my author portal here because I want to be as transparent as possible with everyone about what book sales really look like. It is a business that will benefit from all of us being more open about it.
If you want to hear about my new years resolutions that don’t totally suck I did an episode of Under the Influence with Glynnis.
Now to avoid jumping on the trampoline with my kids I’ve decided to compile my list of 20 social media, political and pop culture predictions. Remember, I am an expert in nothing, but I am a Sicilian witch, so I know a few things.
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Ballerina Farm and Nara Smith will start beefing and triple their followers.
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The Blake Lively lawsuit starts a massive spill of celebrity publicist text messages.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short will become the next “it” couple.
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Hawk Tuah girl will get a position in Trump’s cabinet.
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Timothy Chalamet will start a substack.
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Taylor Swift will get another cat.
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Elon Musk impregnates ones of the Trumps