If you're too frozen to create for fear of Cancel Culture, this one's for you...

Unsolicited Advice: A Consent Educator's (Canceled) Memoir

After my book deal got canceled two months before publication when my editor received a strange email about me, I’ve secured the rights so I can release it on my own. My book, Unsolicited Advice: A Consent Educator's (Canceled) Memoir, will be published on Substack beginning next week. I hope you’ll become a paid subscriber and follow along.

The book starts here.

Unsolicited Advice is a consent manifesto told in memoir. It’s deeply personal and vulnerable, and I’m incredibly proud of it. It’s both a story of a queer millennial artist dealing with mysterious illness trying to find their voice, and a teaching/learning tool.

The book will include the original manuscript, as well as a second introduction and a new Part IV: Canceled. I will be writing extensively about the experience of learning this information and how exploitative I believe the publishing industry can be. I’ll share the process of writing the book, both my own conception and the existential questions I faced as I wrote it, as well as my experience working with and being dropped by an editor, a publisher, and then my book agent. I’ll reflect on what happened, where I went wrong, what I’ll do differently moving forward, and what I’ve learned. A few pages will be released at a time, 1-2 times a week over the next several months.

If anyone starts a reading group, lemme know. Maybe I’ll swing by :)

Exclusive to Substack:

·      Accompanying exercises, tools, and prompts that function as a workbook component

·      There will be 25 discounted copies available from a very limited printed run of the book, to be printed after the entire manuscript has come out on Substack

·      Discussion in the comments!

Being a paid subscriber supports getting anti-carceral consent education as far and wide as possible.

Photo by Summer Wagner

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Hi, I’m Mia. I found consent through Intimacy Coordination and fell in love with it so much that I decided to dedicate my life to making it as widely available as possible.

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I offer classes on consent and creativity, people pleasing, the romantic comedy, as well as trainings for people who want to learn to teach consent. You can read more and sign up at consentwizardry.com.

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