Fellow Empresses,
Get ready for some magic!
A friend of mine was recently explaining a report she’d seen on women, credibility, and age. Apparently, from the ages of 20-35, we’re considered too young to be taken seriously in the corporate world. But then after age 45, we’re too old to be considered relevant or valuable, which means we really only have TEN YEARS… ten years to be listened to, to be believed, to be taken seriously in meetings, and to actually advance in our career paths, and after that… we fade. Our authority wanes.
Ten years? That’s it? It made me so angry. It made me “Witches-of-Eastwick-angry” and right as my soul was boiling with incoherent rage, another friend gave me Kirsten Miller’s new novel… THE CHANGE. The very antidote! Somehow… I’d missed it as I am not a watcher of Good Morning America… and I’ve been working so crazy-hard with our team on getting THE IDEALISTS. Journal and weekly show out the door and, then, of course, dreaming up The Empress.
If you too are also tardy to this party, click now because you need to read this sincerely thrilling romp of a book. It’s about three extraordinary women who find themselves all at points in their respective lives where they’ve reached moments of profound professional and personal alienation, only to discover their utmost powers—all while at the center of a terrifying series of island killings amid a nasty strain of patriarchy gone totally unchecked for far too long. I tore through it in three days.
So, grab a copy of THE CHANGE right now, and ask yourself, are you more of a Jo, a Nessa, or a Harriet? Or maybe in the immortal words of the late Whitney Houston, you’ll be singing, “I’m every woman.” It’s definitely worth finding out.
In the meantime, stay tuned for our next dispatch on the famed ur-bra and how a certain someone named Winona might prove your newest bestie. You won’t want to miss it.
Yours in Grandeur,
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Well, clearly (thankfully) I am not Bill Gates because a couple of you just wrote in to tell me that the book link was broken. It is now fixed. Magic!
It's... https://amzn.to/3R2HHJx if you need the actual letters & things. :)