No One Talks About This Stuff
March 21st 2024, Unbound
Mark Ecob, Unbound
On December 15 2021, I launched a campaign with the crowdfunding publishers Unbound for an anthology collecting people’s lived experiences of infertility, baby loss, and not having children. We gave it a working title of No One Talks About This Stuff, because of our experience that, until you’ve gone through it, you might think that you’re the only one in your circle, family, or community who has. I offered dog walks with me and Sybil, social media consultations, interviews, picnics, and book clubs among the pledge rewards!
On April 13th 2022, the book was 100% funded!
On December 15 2022, I handed in the finished manuscript.
The book collates 22 moving, honest, surprising, and funny essays from women, men, and non-binary people about their experiences of infertility. Writers include parents, childless women, childfree women, and people who haven’t decided yet. The aim is to provide a support group in a book that you can buy from mainstream shops so that people don’t feel so alone. They are absolutely brilliant essays.
No One Talks About This Stuff will be available to preorder through the usual places in the autumn and until then you can preorder, access lovely rewards, and read about the contributors and the book process, at No One Talks About This Stuff’s book page on Unbound.
The mock-up of the book cover for No One Talks About This Stuff by Mark Ecob – thanks to a generous pledge, we could increase the contributors from 15 to 22!
It’s Not a bloody trend
February 1 2024, Robinson Psychology (Little, Brown)
A unique and much-needed book that is part memoir/part self-help guide for adults either diagnosed with ADHD or finding they recognise the symptoms in themselves.
Nobody should spend their life feeling defective. Everyone deserves to have a user manual to their brain - welcome to yours.
Once associated more with hyper boys than adults, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is now recognised as a condition in need of a rebrand which affects people of all genders and ages in a multitude of ways.
In this enlightening and definitive layman's guide, Kat Brown cheerfully smashes the stereotypes with scientific evidence, historical context, and practical support for ADHD minds across areas that can cause problems, from finances and work to self-medicating, relationships, hormones and self-esteem.
Based on Kat's personal experience and extensive interviews with ADHDers and world-leading clinical experts, It's Not A Bloody Trend is for anyone wondering if what's always been 'wrong' with them might just be undiagnosed ADHD.