mamaphonic; coming soon to a bookstore and desert isle near you!

From amazon.com:

“Brought to the kitchen table by Hip Mama managing director Bee Lavender and editor Maia Rossini, Mamaphonic collects confessions and conversations about the exhilarating, entertaining, and difficult aspects of remaining creative while raising children. Essays range from the hilarious, such as “The Rudest Muse” by Lisa Peet, an illustrator and specialty baker who, by listening to her teenage son, finds new directions for her work; to the heart-wrenching “Childish Things” by Lori Pfeiffer, a writer diagnosed with a terminal illness during her pregnancy, who asks, “If you had only six months to live, what would you write?” Including voices as diverse as a transgendered teenage couple, an academic feminist, a punk rocker, and a poet, this eclectic mix of musings proves that becoming a mother is not the end but the beginning. Contributors include Ingrid Wendt, Ayun Halliday, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jen Thorpe, Gayle Brandeis, and others.”

Oh…and I guess I neglected to mention this before now, Gentle Readers. Those “others” — umm…that’d be me.

You know, kind of like, “…the moviestar — and the rest, are here on Gilligan’s Isle!”

Goddamnit, now that I really think about it, I am SO MaryAnn it is killing me. All tits and ass and apple pie.

Only without the apple pie.

Anyway, enough about my boss hooters and wholesome, corn-fed essence and back to the subject at hand: Bee and Maia’s book is EXTRAORDINARY. I feel so fortunate to be a part of this project and to have had my work chosen to appear in a book as stunning and as vital as this one. So, get thine ass immediately to amazon.com and place your order for an advanced copy NOW.

Bee will love you. Maia will love you. Ayun will love you. Gayle will love you.

But most of all — MaryAnn will love you.

And now, if you’ll excuse me…I’ve got a winsome slab o’ sweet cherry pie to try and serve up to that latent, worthless-in-the-hammock, piece o’ shit Gilligan.

Aloha!

About muffybolding

Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.

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