The vagenda book deal

One of the vagenda s main influences is the times columnist caitlin moran, whose book how to be a woman part memoir, part feminist polemic, part standup. We launched the site in february and had a book deal by september. By then wed done a lot of work in schools with young people and wed had loads of submissions to the blog from around the world by a vast diversity of women and men. When the mood strikes i discuss vintage clothes, popular culture, wigs, politics, family, food and book. Vagenda began as a blog, by rhiannon lucy cosslett and holly baxter, as a critique of womens magazines. Dr jen gunter deals in straighttalk, hard facts and medical science.

I wont say that this is good or bad, just unexpected. Not long after the blog started, baxter and cossett found themselves. A sixfigure deal was agreed, with a view to a book release in 20, in the uk. Everyday practicalities and maintenance, skin care and cleansing, menstrual products and mythology, menopause, stis, conditions, and symptoms are the general chapters, each including various sections that deal with specific concerns. The vagenda by holly baxter, 9781784700430, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.

In september 2012, the publisher square peg, owned by the random house group vintage press, outbid 12 competitors to win rights to a book by the two editors of the vagenda. Sadly, the author robert jordan passed away without finishing the series. Apparently a runaway success in the blogging world, the vagenda was founded in 2012 getting 7 million hits in its first year. A zero tolerance guide to the media has just been published. Jordans widow chose brandon sanderson to finish the series based on jordans notes, and most fans were happy with the conclusion. If youve ever read an entire issue of cosmo, for example, and wondered why women have to do some much beautifying and pleasing to keep our men happy because what else are. The hotbed collective land book deal with square peg. Instant new york times, usa today, and publishers weekly bestseller. Young feminists armed with tweets and jokes iol business. If every unpaid, uncredited contributor whos not one of the friends they mentioned stops writing for them then it would certainly have an impact on the success of the book. I found myself laughing out loud several times while reading this. It doesnt actually read like a book at all, more like a magazine, and given the subject matter perhaps that was the intention. In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and celebrityendorsed products, its easy to be. Square peg is publishing a book, more orgasms please, from the writers behind the hotbed collective.

Robert jordans the waste of time spanking the dragon. Publishers vintage have now given the ladies a book deal. Holly baxter, coauthor and i started it with a few friends and thought no one would read it, we certainly had no idea it would go viral. Thirteen publishers competed to buy the book, which was eventually acquired in a sixfigure deal by rosemary davidson at square peg. Barbara bourland is the author of the critically acclaimed ill eat when im dead, a refinery29 best book of 2017 and an irish independent book of the year. Young uk feminists armed with tweets and jokes inquirer. Last week they were among 600 people at a london theatre for an anti. Satirical feminist vagenda s cofounders, holly baxter and rhiannon lucy cosslett, whose website has had 14. Is there still a place for womens pages in the media. The vagenda definitely gets its point across but maybe not quite in the way that i was expecting.

After what the times have reported to be a publisher bidding war that ended in a sixfigure deal, the two friends, now aged 25 and 26, have written a book the vagenda. The book is divided up into general sections, each applicable at different times in a womans life. But it wasnt long before the enthusiastic emails started coming and we started featuring the work of other writers. Not only because i love the vagenda, a witty website designed to call bullshit on magazine culture and beyond. We wrote the book together dividing it into chapters representing what wed heard about most on the blog. My boyfriend and i adopted a cat, not a surrogate child shakespeares female characters are more nuanced than the ones we have now. A zero tolerance guide to the media and over 8 million other books are available for amazon kindle. In terms of legislation, wartime policies are generally not considered part of the new freedom. The vagenda is a book based on the blog of the same name by london journalists holly baxter and rhiannon lucy cosslett. Square peg signs the vagenda in sixfigure deal the.

The vagenda is a blog its not trying to be anything other than what it is and what it does offer is passion and angry and an alternative option. Holly baxter is cofounder and editor of and coauthor of the vagenda. The vagenda is a brilliantly bolshy rallying call to girls and women of all ages. Stylist the vagina bible aims to empower women with a source they can trust, spanning topics. But because, back in the summer of 2012, i sent tentatively sent an email asking if i could write for them. Empowerment of women through accurate information about their own bodies is the vagenda of obgyn and new york times columnist gunters. I dislike feminists having a go at each other rather than working together but, in all honesty, i cannot recommend this. Bridget harrison daily mail consider this book your nononsense vagenda.

Square peg has fought off twelve other publishers to acquire a book in a sixfigure deal by the. If the book is coming out next year then the vagenda needs to sustain interest in their website until the book comes out. After the 1918 midterm elections, republicans took control of congress and were mostly hostile to the new freedom. When we started the blog up until after we got the book deal we were both writing the majority of the vagenda s content for the website. Since then, the vagenda has since transformed into a different thing entirely. It is a brilliantly bolshy rallying call to girls and women of all ages. Fortunately the pair turned their proximity into an opportunity, founding feminist blog the vagenda and securing themselves a lucrative book deal. Or because they published a great book in 20 entitled the vagenda. I had a lot of fun writing the vagenda we pissed ourselves laughing the whole way through. Ill eat when im dead by barbara bourland, paperback. Wednesday martin, bestselling author of primates of park avenue and untrue, deemed it a deft, smart, and hilarious debut. So they launched the vagenda blog in 2012, and now they have written this laughoutloud book.

Wheel of time is a high fantasy series consisting of 14 books published over a 23 year period. Square peg has fought off twelve other publishers to acquire a book in a sixfigure deal by the cofounders of feminist blog, the vagenda. Last year they landed a sixfigure book deal, and the vagenda. The vagenda asks real women everywhere to demand a media that reflects who we actually are. The vagenda breaks down all the silly stereotypes that make up women according to pop culture, and does it in a funny way. The vagenda is feminismlite it is a gateway book for the girl who doesnt want to use the fword feminist, not the rude one but is ready to acknowledge that magazines are a bit off. Were crazy about the yarn we dye on and the colors we create. More vintage lilli ann fabric of france bamboo, marvelous blending of mohair, worsted and silk created by faques exclusively for the exciting new lilli ann couturier dress collection. Yarn bases currently available are listed below, for a more in depth description please keep. Get exclusive deals and discounts on accessories, jewelry, beauty, from tory johnson, and roundups of product picks and gift ideas. From the vagenda teams sixfigure book deal, to the success of lena dunhams smash hbo hit girls, to morans own how to be a woman, all signs point to the fact that the more mainstream press is sitting up and taking notice of what weve known for a very long time.