I am happy!

Hey feministing community -

I’ve written a few posts and comments on here over the last 10 months about my work with street harassment and my efforts to collect street harassment stories for a book I’ve been working on. Well, I am pleased to share that I got offered a book contract today and I am really happy!

After talking about writing a book, doing research, interviewing people, and collecting stories, being offered a contract finally makes me feel legitimate and makes the whole thing real!! Especially in this economy, I feel lucky to have found someone willing to take a chance on someone who has never published before, is only a few years out of college, and who has written on an underrepresented topic (in books) and one which will likely be very controversial.

My manuscript is due Jan 1 so I will be working really hard these next few months on it and I want to make sure I include as many points of view, stories, thoughts, and experiences as possible. So thank you everyone who participated in my informal survey last fall, and if you didin’t but you have a street harassment story, strategy for dealing with it, idea for ending it, or if you’re an activist on this issue and you want your info to be considered for inclusion in the book, please contact me at stopstreetharassmentATyahooDOTcom. You can also fill out an anonymous online form to submit the info to me.