Hey APW,
It’s been… a week. Maddie and I are heading from Oakland to Salt Lake City for Alt Summit early next week. We’re each speaking on a panel next week, and if you’re going to be in SLC, please come see us and say hi. I’m talking about book deals: Do you want one? How do you go about getting one? What kind of books might actually make you money? What does writing a book actually look like? Maddie is talking about being a blog or website contributor: how to become one; what works and what doesn’t; what you should expect to be paid; the works. But before all that starts, we’re meeting up with Deputy Editor Lucy, who’s flying in from Atlanta, and having a massive daylong APW staff meeting.
Next week: all about making APW better. (And going to the indoor pool.) (And getting you a book deal.)
Meanwhile, I’m in the midst of living the process of book writing with book number two, and… what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? I’m far along enough to think the book has a decent chance of being awesome (and to remember that a good chunk of all wedding vendors are totally bananas. Like, just when I think I have nothing useful to say I run face first into the regular industry and… WHAT IS GOING ON THERE YOU GUYS?). But I’m not so far along that I don’t feel like stress crying several times a day.
As for you, have wonderful long weekends, and enjoy your open thread!
(But seriously, who’s coming to SLC?)
XO,
MEG
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Highlights of APW This Week
A guide to religious and non-religious options for premarital counseling.
How one couple planned a budget mountain wedding for $2,000.
Sixteen headpieces that prove bling is back.
Is unhappy marriage really “Facebook’s last taboo“?
Your place to ask all the wedding planning questions.
“The day my husband came clean about his porn blog.”
Big weddings inspiration for anyone looking to keep everyone on their guest list.
This wedding is cooler than all of us.
How do I choose what kind of wedding I want?
Link Roundup
Five ways the wedding industry is plotting to destroy us.
The decisive marriage.
“Things I’ve learned since turning thirty: on fighting.”
Forty-six times Vox completely screwed up a story.
How the hatpin became a tool for women’s liberation.
“Dear women, be kind to other women. Love, a woman.”
What those George Clooney jokes know about red carpet culture.
Gawker’s media responsibility to diversity.
Alessandra Stanley’s troubling reaction to Transparent’s Golden Globe wins.
Let’s all take a moment to look at these fabulously dreamy wedding dresses (and pants!).
Quitting sugar is not the answer.
Sophia Amoruso steps down as Nasty Gal CEO.
Sixty-five surgeries later, a boy who swallowed a button battery is breathing a little easier.
Twenty-five real photos of women’s breasts. (NSFW)
“I, a mere commoner, went to the Golden Globes. This is what happened.”
Choose your own adventure Twitter.
Abandon all hope, ye ovaries.
A couple nails their baby announcement.
The terrifying world of tweenage Dance Moms fans.
A queer, women-owned farm startup gets funded by a women angel group.
Trapped in his body for twelve years, a man breaks free.
Five ridiculous things we say to women who work.
“My lovely wife in the psych ward.”
Cleaning up inventory by making something new.
Nineteen vintage photos celebrating black women’s beauty.
How often you really need to shower, according to science.
“Why I took his last name, even though it’s ‘Porky.'”
Being Winona in a world made for Gwyneths.
