Four authors with EDS walk into a Zoom room...

Is there a punchline? Join our virtual event this Thursday to find out.

Hello!

You may have noticed this newsletter is on temporary hiatus, because I’m having a bit of burnout from last year’s flurry of book promotion.

I’ll be back with more regular content in future, but for now I’m only sending emails when I have an event to announce.

And I’ve got one for you!

I often tell people that Floppy: Tales of Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World was one of the first books about Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective, but did you know that 2023 was also a banner year for new books by EDS authors?

And I’ll be in virtual conversation with three of them this Thursday, July 25 at 11am PST!

Victoria Bennett of Wild Women Press in the UK has been hosting a delightful series of virtual salons, and the July event is called “Belonging & the art of naming: self-expression, the names we carry, and what it means to come home to a ‘chronic’ body.”

Who’s going to be there?

The host, Victoria Bennett, published All My Wild Mothers (2023) in the UK, which just won the 2024 Nautilus Book Award.

Polly Atkin just released the US edition of Some of Us Just Fall: Nature and Not Getting Better (2024), which just won the 2024 Wordsworth Prize for Literature and Poetry.

Louise Kenward edited the wonderful anthology Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability (2023), also published in the UK.

And then there’s me, Alyssa Graybeal, author of Floppy (2023), which won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award and was a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award.

You’ll need to register to attend, but the event will be recorded if you can’t make it live. More details at the link below.

P.S. If you’re in the US, you might also want to check out my running list of books by EDS authors available on Bookshop!