Woman About Town

SARAH DITUM

First-night nerves BY THE TIME THIS MAGAZINE is in your hands, I will be — after much huffing, straining and shedding of tears — a published author. My book Toxic: Women, Fame and the Noughties will be on bookshop tables and readerly nightstands across the country. How do I feel right now? The honest answer is, sort of terrible. This anxiety is, I’m told, normal. No one feels good about publishing a book. Maybe that’s why it’s traditional to douse all the nerves in not-quite-chilled white wine at the launch event. At least I’ve now undergone the ultimate trial by fire: recording the audiobook, which meant four days of reading my own words back to myself while a producer gently corrected my pronunciation and pacing. If I didn’t hate it after…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023

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