this one is fast!
Hi Friends!
This email is going to be short because things are crazy out there, and who has time for long emails? NOT US!
I hope you’re all taking care of yourselves in whatever way you can. For me, that meant buying a sweatshirt with a hedgehog in a teacup on it. You might find a way that does, in fact, not involve hedgehogs or cozy glassware and that is fine but in my opinion this is the best way.
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I’m mostly writing because, after months of talking about it, THIS WAS THE WEEK MY BOOK “EVERYONE GETS A SAY” CAME OUT. It was so exciting and overwhelming, and my amazing publisher set up twelve radio interviews, so by the end of the day I was so exhausted I had no idea what I’d said about voting to whom, and just had to cross my fingers that I hadn’t said anything terrible. See how long that previous sentence was? That’s how long my day was. But it’s two days later and nobody’s mad, so I don’t think we are in the clear!
Now that the book is out, I wanted to share with you all one of my favorite illustrations. As you can probably guess, I write the words to the book with some vague idea of what I think the pictures might look like. But my illustrator E.G. Keller blows me away every time, and this picture in particular makes me tear up every time I look at it:
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(lotta hedgehog content in this newsletter, I know. I will not apologize.)
I also offered a deal on twitter that I wanted to make sure to offer to you guys too:
If you order (or buy at your local bookstore) a copy of “Everyone Gets a Say” by Monday the 31st, I’ll send you an “I SAID” sticker like the one in this illustration.
I figure a lot of people will be voting by mail this year, and after this hell-slog of a year WE ALL DESERVE VOTING STICKERS.
Once you’ve ordered, just reply to this email with a screenshot of your receipt and where you’d like me to mail the sticker, and I’ll send it! (And before you ask, if you already ordered it and still want a sticker, that is ok too. Who am I to be stingy with stickers??? That is not who I am in my soul.)
Last thing: I was on a couple of great podcasts this week and I wanted to share. First I did, “Make My Day With Josh Gondelman” where we did some rapid-fire animal naming, talked about a court TV show staffed entirely by penguins, AND I got to give a pep talk to my favorite people in the world —theatre people. Josh’s podcast always puts me in a better mood, and I was so excited to be a part of it.
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And second, I got to talk a lot about how I became a writer and how I learned to get better at writing jokes on “First Draft with Sarah Enni.” Hers is the podcast I would go to when I wanted to learn more about the publishing process, and she asks such insightful questions.
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You are all the best people I know. Wear a mask and save someone’s life, you heroes!
Kisses (metaphorical!)
Jill Twiss
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