For Your Eyes Only

Newsletter 2022-11-05

Between Daylight Saving Time and a whirlwind trip to Dallas and back this weekend, I somehow managed to lose about six weeks worth of sleep. Luckily, I already had this week’s email update planned months in advance. Tuesday is the most important day of the year. No, I’m not talking about the election, although you should probably still vote because if you don’t those campaign ads will never go away. But while you stand in line at the polling place, you can read the real reason Tuesday matters. I’m referring, of course, to the launch of my new book, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child. Although for the record, it was incredibly rude of America to schedule an election for the same day I released my book.

The full book is about 50,000 words. Here are the first 1,300 of them. You get to read Chapter 1 before anyone else in the world. Except for the British, who got the book on November 1st. And a handful of Canadians, whose pre-orders shipped early. A…