Alert: Premium Content Paused

Danielle is working on a new writing project

Hello dear subscribers,

I’m pausing the monthly Premium cocktail conversations, as I am currently working on a sequel to my novel, Amanda.Bright@Home. The first draft of the novel originally ran as a weekly serial in the Wall Street Journal over the summer of 2001. It was the first novel ever to be serialized by the Journal (at least since the 19th century).

The novel’s description goes as follows:

Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this: not her elite college degree, not her brainy friends, not her mother the feminist heroine. At age 35, she finds herself at home with two children, mopping spills and singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. It doesn't help that her husband's face is all over national television or that her best friend is dating a billionaire or that every woman she knows seems to have a plastic surgeon and an interior decorator. While everyone else is racing up the fast track, it's getting hard for Amanda to remember why she left work in the first place. Set amidst the glamor and power of boom-time Washington, D.C., Amanda Bright is a novel about status and ambition marriage and jealousy and a woman's struggle to discover the things that matter most. Amanda Bright@Home will become an anthem for a generation of women that is learning that success is not always found at the office.

The sequel I’m currently writing meets Amanda again in her early 50s. She is newly separated and must face returning to the now Millennial-run workforce after years spent raising her children at home. She will also — God help her — discover dating apps.

All billing has been paused, so those with paid subscriptions don’t need to do anything — you won’t be charged until further notice. For my Premium subscribers, I’d be delighted to send you a signed copy of AmandaBright@Home to make up for the temporary loss of bonus content. But if you are really annoyed, I’d also be happy to Venmo you the balance of your subscription. Please reach out to me directly: Danielle@femsplainers.com. Tell me which option you prefer. And as always, I am extremely grateful for your support of my writing.

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