the huge news that was promised

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I had planned for this to be a big fun announcement, but then I got food poisoning (shout out to staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins!) and then I had to fly across the country while still poisoned and anyway what I'm trying to say is that there's not going to be an elaborate announcement. I will simply tell you:

Sex Change and the City is now available for preorder! And YOU, my beautiful sweet patron, can get 10% off your entire order with code "PERVERT" :)

I am so excited about this book. It is 40% longer than our first book! It is beautifully designed by a professional book layout person! Every single piece slaps! Here's the long version of the description that I already wrote, back when my brain worked:

The team behind the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious returns with another delightful, deranged volume of queer media studies.

Sex Change and the City features personal essays, critical analysis, comics, poetry, artwork, games, and steamy short stories by 46 fabulous LGBTQ+ contributors. 

Inspired by the classic TV series, the collection goes beyond asking “Are you a Miranda?” to consider more pressing questions, like “When will Miranda start HRT and begin going by Hobbes?” 

This all-queer, mostly-trans anthology includes thoughtful meditations on the shame of secret relationships, the grief of losing a family member, the confusion of young adulthood, and the rage of middle age—as well as multiple pieces of Steve/Aidan slashfic, tales from a tense Sex and the City bus tour, and behind-the-scenes stories from an And Just Like That…  production assistant.

Readers will discover newly published work by Mattie Lubchansky (Boys Weekend), Harron Walker (Aggregated Discontent), Bri LeRose (The People’s Joker), and Sam Szabo (Enlightened Transsexual Comix) alongside Mad Libs, M.A.S.H., AIM chat logs, a personality quiz, and something called “Mr. Big’s Phalloplasty Emporium.”

Sex and the City fans, queer literature lovers, and anyone who’s ever made an AO3 account will enjoy this highly-anticipated anthology, which combines the incisiveness of critical theory with the raw heart and boundless creativity of an old-school fanzine.

Calvin helped write the last paragraph/sentence, and speaking of AO3, did you know that there's not a single piece of Carrie/Miranda fanfic on the major fic sites? This came up because someone I'm dating had a dream that Carrie & Miranda were making out and apparently their brain was... the first to ever do it?? We researched this minutes before finding out that we were poisoned lmaooo.

Okay so I said this wouldn't be a big fun announcement and clearly I'm wrong, as I'm talking about horny dreams AND, somehow, puking. ANYWAY. Our new book is on presale now! It comes out on Nov 6, which is only 3 months away, wowow. And it is typically $21, but again, use code PERVERT to get it down to like $18.90 — or you can buy our new BUNDLE and get BOTH girl dad press books for ... 90% of $36! Is that $32? There's no way to possibly know.

Okay and ONE MORE THING which is, lololol, I gotta pay the printer $17,000 by Monday so wow it really helps if you buy a copy now. Like obviously we're not gonna break even by Monday or maybe ever (the press currently, right now, has $-7000, with a negative sign) but wow it does help!!! Is this too much transparency??? Oh well!

Love u so much. And I really think and hope that you're gonna love this book, if u choose to partake. That's it for this week, but of course, here's your weekly Rhubarb.

Photo: Ruby laying regally and normally in the sunny windowsill

And Puffin :)

Photo: Puffin lying very goofily, belly-up, in the same sunny windowsill

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective