The universe has jokes

Good Guys made She Does The City’s Most Anticipated Books of Early 2026 list! In it, they call my novel “an unputdownable thriller about the dark side of philanthropy.” Fun story about She Does The City: my first brush with them was as a publicist, all the way back in 2007, when they were a brand new blog and I was a brand new person.

At the time, I was working in public relations for a prostate cancer charity and pitched She Does The City (successfully) on covering a wacky fundraising campaign where young men grew moustaches for the month of November.

Nineteen years ago, blogs were the bleeding edge of new media and I had to explain the concept to at least one older colleague. Working with the prostate cancer demographic, we were more used to getting media hits in places like Zoomer Magazine.

Well, what do you know, Good Guys ALSO made Zoomer’s 11 Reads for January round-up. They call it “a bracing and darkly comic novel” and “a thought-provoking look at the so-called altruism of capitalism.”

In conclusion, thank you to my publicist Natasha. And friends, life is not a box of chocolates. It’s a nesting doll of self-referential in-jokes.