The Foulest Things + fixing stuff + pirate queens

May I recommend

Ordering my book.

The Foulest Things is out this TUESDAY. It’s about a naive archivist navigating her career, her family and her love life whilst also untangling an explosive 100-year old secret whilst also ALSO solving the murder of a man found squished in the art vault’s rolling shelving.

There are jokes! There are twists! There is intrigue! There are archival secrets! There are grand love affairs and murderous climaxes. IT’S GOT IT ALL.

Did I include a blistering takedown of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games? (which of all the Olympic games that I hate is the one that I hate the most because I was two months into my mat leave at the time and suffering from a mild case of undiagnosed postpartum depression so I was unreasonably enraged when the stupid Olympics pre-empted Live with Regis and Kelly, which I had come to rely on for my continued —somewhat precarious— mental health?) No, actually, I didn’t do a takedown of the Olympics, because I know that my hatred of the games…