I wrote this book because I LOVE the post-apocalyptic genre. Trigger warnings* are in effect for rape, gang rape, human trafficking, and (spoiler alert kinda) FGM. I’m going to level with you: bad things happen. It’s about a world where there are hardly any women left, because of some terrible occurrences.

I’ll have them in stock next week, and I’ll have signing and reading events in SF and East Bay soon. And if you really want to read my book but have no money or very little money, let’s talk sliding scale/trade. I take cash, debit, credit, PayPal, Google Wallet, and Venmo, and I’ll sign it and get it to you wherever you are. You can also buy the book directly from me. It’s available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats.īut you hate Amazon! Or, you don’t have a Kindle! Or, you prefer to buy everything with cash! Fear not. One year later, my book has just been released by Sybaritic Press. I was extremely, incredibly fortunate to be in a short-term writing program at Cal at the time, and I workshopped those first pages with a sharp group of writers who gave me invaluable feedback.

As soon as finals were over, I hunched over my laptop for half a day and wrote the first 12,000 words in one go. I had the idea during finals and I set it aside, convinced that it would take over my life and make studying impossible. I started writing the story that would become The Book of the Unnamed Midwife last summer.

The unnamed midwife