At the beginning of 2025, my friend Ilene Haddad and I sat down for a heart-to-heart. She and I had been working together for two years, meeting weekly to exchange our writing, providing feedback and moral support, and generally holding each other’s hands through the arduous process of writing our respective books. We decided that since we’d been by each other’s side this whole time, and both books were due out later in the year, it was only fitting that we co-launch. So in April, we picked a date, sat down, and created a Very Large Spreadsheet of all the…
