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News & Updates

Big news: my second memoir, Make Do and Mend, will be released in early 2026 – after more than a decade of drafting, revising, querying/submitting, taking a break, rinsing, and repeating.

Slightly less big but still notable news: I’ll be releasing a U.S. edition of Navel Gazing (finally!) at the same time! It’ll have a new cover, U.S. spelling (for the anglophobes among us) and a new forward – other than that, I likely won’t change much, because if I start tinkering I’m likely to change everything about it.

If you want to know more about the publishing process and/or get a sneak peek at my many feelings about it, check out the Substack post below:

Courage Is Not the Absence of Cringe, but Feeling the Cringe and Doing It Anyway by Anne H Putnam

Or: The Only Thing We Have to Cringe About Is Cringe Itself

Read on Substack

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