Here she is.
I don’t want to say too much. Just look and feel and tell me . . . isn’t that just what we’ve done here at Momastery? Try to live unarmed? And that picture . . . isn’t it exactly what it feels like to try? So scary and naked and climby and freeing? Like you’re finally able to take a deep breath out in the fresh, clean, true air?
I love that lady. I love that lady, focusing up, climbing out, pushing her way up. Eyes on the sky. Hopeful. Brave. Us.
I hope you love our lady and our cover as much as I do. Thank you, Shannon May – the amazing cover artist.
Kay. Things get even more exciting now- because Carry On, Warrior has her own landing page!!! Go visit, it’s for you. It’s for YOU. Our Amy built it with Scribner’s help, and it’s a work of art. There you can connect with other readers and Monkees, catch reviews of the book, and even read the first chapter. You can also register for our SWEEPSTAKES!!
Just register on the landing page to win. Scribner will never, EVER sell your email addresses or use them for anything except to tell you when I’ll be near your town AND to tell you when PRE-ORDERING STARTS!!!!!
I can’t talk about PRE-ORDERING DAY yet. We’re planning more SPECIAL just for Monkees. It makes me pee a little. One thing at a time.
I LOVE YOU, MONKEES!!!!!!!! We did hard things!!!! Now go enter the sweeeeeeeeeeeeepstakes!!!
Love, LOVE. Seriously, LOVE YOU.
Thank you for helping this baby be born, and then for letting me take most of the credit. So kind.
G
I just discovered your page…and now your book. I entered the drawing. Yet, even if I don’t win a free copy I have every intention of buying it…and I NEVER buy books. I’m going to think of it as my little push to help you along on your new life. I stepped out from a sham-of-a-marriage years ago. If I could do it, than you DEFINITELY can!
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Just saw your book and read a bit. I ca’t wait to buy it and give it away to allmy friends and family. You are amazing. Thanks for the honest look into life and parenting.
Xoxoxo,
Macey
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Awesomeness! Really proud of you and proud to be part of this community. And yes, I would wear this on a t-shirt too!
I just read the first chapter and absolutely LOVED it! I was struck by you you saying that being open was the thing you were meant to do with your life. I feel like I have searched for so many years to find my ‘thing’. The one thing that you were born to do. I’ve known for years that it doesn’t have to be a career, but I just deeply love the idea that your ‘thing’ quite possibly is just being your authentic self. How beautiful is that? And even better, almost impossible to stuff up! Thank so much as always for everything you share with us, and of course a BIG congratulations for this glorious book
I really do love it! So exciting! Proud of you!!!
This is fantastic! Congrats, Glennon! I am crossing fingers that I win a copy, but I will definitely buy it if I don’t. Keep up the great work!
Thoughts on next book: A Momastery cookbook!
=-D
Love it, love you, love us! <3
How unbelievably cool!!!!! Congrats!!!!! Can’t wait to get it!
It’s amazing…. She’s free.
I am a new monkee & I am so excited for you G!
I just got chills reading the first chapter! I wish I could’ve kept going!!
I cannot wait to get my hands on that book!
Prayers and Love to you and all the other Monkees out there that need it tonight!
Xoxo
So so so happy to see this! Thank you for your sweat and tears, Glennon. I cannot wait to get my hands on this book!!
Thank you, Glennon, for your gift of vulnerability and being able to share your vulnerability. I am so excited to read your book and to be reading it alongside other Monkees! You and your love are so brutiful. Thank you, and carry-on warrior!
PS – I’m glad you kept your designer jeans…it’s the small things, sometimes 
jennerjames, your post made me cry. chin up, shoulders back – life is long. take good care. sam
I love the art work. If I didn’t know about you or this book, I would buy it JUST because of the cover! Can’t wait to read it.
the cover is perfect, Glennon.
Gorgeous! I just CANNOT Wait to get my hands on this lovely book. Kudos to you. (And now I’m going to go sip some vino to help you celebrate from way up here in Northern Iowa!)
Oh Glennon, I LOVE it! So beautiful. I agree – we need a t-shirt! Oh, and “It makes me pee a little.” You are hilarious!
P.S. Monkees, please say a prayer for me and my family tonight. Today is the 10 year anniversary of when my cousin took his life. We were just 25 when it happened. He was so smart and fun and no one had any idea that he was suffering until it was already too late. I miss him so much.
In the last 1 1/2 years I’ve had my own battles with depression and came close to making his same choice. I wish I could go back in time and tell him that the pain fades. That the light comes on again. Feeling lots of “What if’s” and regrets today.
Thanks so much, friends.
You have my prayers honey
Thank you.
<3 so glad your light is shining through again. its always there. it never dims or leaves, it just gets covered and buried at times. but if we didn't know darkness we would take light for granted. lots of love to you.
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I understand your pain. I lost my brother, almost 16 years ago, to suicide (I was 27 at the time). There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him in some way. I love what Katie said in her reply, it is so true! The whole experience has made me much more aware and appreciative of the small things in life. Much love and light to you.
Just knowing the book is coming makes me feel a wave of relief. My 42 nd birthday is in April & it might just help me to survive yet another year of this wild ride. You fight the fight and have become my hero . Thank you for being the real, raw, kind , generous self. Thank you.
I literally got chills when I saw the book cover! I LOVE it! Congratulations, Glennon!
Yaaay! LOVE the cover. Congratulations, G, on birthing this baby, and enjoy watching your “little one” grow! Can’t wait to read it.
So AMAZING!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
I love it! Love the cover. And can not wait to read the book.
I absolutely cannot wait! – If I had an extra thumb, I’d give it 3 thumbs up!!!
~The Monkee Junkee
I keep trying to enter but it continuously says “invalid request”…
me too!
Me three! What’s up with the invalid request?
I haven’t been an invalid since I was pregnant with my last baby…
Oh my goodness!! Just read the first chapter on-line – LOVE it! I have a feeling it’s going to be a book that I won’t be able to put down and I’ll be sad when I’m done! Can’t wait! CONGRATULATIONS Glennon!
BOOOO HOOOOOO! I just tried entering your sweep but it won’t let me!! THEN I read the red print US RESIDENTS ONLY and I am a long way from the US – way way down under!!!. Guess Im waiting till April………………. On an unrelated yet related topic Amazing cover my armour is stripped and sometimes I wish I could of at least kept my shield……… LOVE IT!
I love it! I CANNOT wait to have one!!!! (or maybe two so I can share!)
Glennon, this cover rocks!! I love it. I love the message it communicates. I thought I wasn’t fond of your title–cuz people say that too much–pull up your bootstraps, soldier on, and all of that. I don’t want to be a warrior in the traditional sense. I am working on not fighting anyone or anything. But to be THIS kind of warrior–wahoo. That puts a whole new twist on it. I LOVED the opening chapter. Amazing. It must be scary to be so gifted as a writer. So much success would terrify me. I pray for you. I am so happy for you and proud to “know” you through your blog. You are doing wonderful work. Hugs, Heather Kopp
me too heather. me too.
YAY! Glennon! Can’t wait for it! And I know exactly who I will give the second copy to if I am one of the sweepstakes winners
And if I’m not, I guess I’ll just have to buy two copies – hardcover of course – this is not to be a Kindle book!
Love the first chapter! It’s so true that we just need to let it all hang out sometimes. If others see us warts and all it gives them hope. I know that during some of the most difficult times in my life when I could read stories like mine or talk to friends going through similar struggles it made me feel like I was going to make it. On a side note… I tried to enter the sweepstakes several times and it keeps saying “invalid request” when I click the submit button. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?
GAH!!
SO proud and happy for you, G! I feel like a new Auntie with an amazing sister. Can’t wait for the signing tour. The excerpt is great, and I LOVE that you are giving away two books! One for me, one for my sister-friend, so we can keep sharing the circle.
YAY for love! Love wins again!
How do I enter the Canadian mini-sweepstakes?!?!?! I am dying to read this book but I am in Canada and I even tried entering my mom’s US address, but the darn internet Gods know I am in Canada…somehow? How do they know that? Sheesh. Canada loves you G!!!
Amazing. SO excited. Just read the first chapter and can I just say that I LOVE that the title is at the top of every page. I know this is standard in most books but this seemed different, it was like a tiny little reminder everytime I started a new page to “Carry On, Warrior!”
So wonderful and exciting, yet a bit of sadness for this gal living in France ’cause the sweepstakes are only open to residents of the US. And you have touched the hearts of people all around the world!
Mara love,
Please send me your address and I will send you one of very own early copies.
In other words, YOU WON!
After I hold my Canadian mini-sweep stakes, I will only have three left.
SO…what other countries are there? Hm. Alot. Let me think.
England! You there? Lots of British Monkees, right? DO YOU NEED A MINI SWEEPSTAKES???
Wouldn’t it be fun if just a few of the people who win in the sweepstakes share their second book with a non-US monkee? What a fabulous way to reach out across our borders and unite as one!
We could laugh and cry together on skype!
Fun Fun Fun!
Holly, if I win the U.S. sweepstakes, you will be the one I share the second book with. Now….my kids will have to teach me how to Skype.
You’re so sweet! We’ll just have to learn Skype together, I suppose. I’ve iChat’ed and Google hang-out’ed, but never actually Skyped.
We can do hard things!
What a fabulous idea Holly.
I know I will be sharing my copy with a lot of women here in France who might not know Glennon, but I think will love her book and benefit from it in so many ways.
xoxo Mara
A Canadian mini-sweepstakes!!!! So exciting for us north of the border Monkees. Thank you Glennon for all you do.
New Zealand! We love you G! But I will buy mine on amazon. Am happy to buy one for another monkee too.
Australia!!
I feel so very proud of you, like I am your actual real life sister. I can’t imagine how Sister must be just bursting. I love the cover and I can’t wait to have my own. While I appreciate the “weight” of an ebook, I want a real life copy of this so people will have to ask me about it.
I wish I could afford to give away 200 myself!
Thank you for giving birth to to such an awesome thing! We feel the love!
I just entered! I read the excerpt and I am already crying! I really cannot wait to read the entire book. Glennon, your honesty is helping me be more open with everyone in my life. It is so freeing to tell the truth and show your heart to people. Thank you for inspiring me daily!
Will this be available as an ebook?
Thank you for giving words to our thoughts. Thanks for giving us our space to “just be”. Thank you for being you….
Every time I read that bit about Tess, I cry.
We all need somewhere where we can go deep in our lives and feel safe sharing our pains and our joys with others. But right now, it’s so counter-cultural to go beyond the tweets or the texts or the facebook picture perfection. Thanks for dropping your armor and reviving the ReLOVEution.
Thanks for making it ok to seek out a safe place to land. We all need that. Desperately.
And the cover? It is perfection. Utter perfection.
AWESOME!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!!!! You are amazing and inspirational and I wish I could come sit on your couch and hang out. Your book is so beautiful and I can’t wait to read it!
I can’t wait to read your book, Glennon! I tried to enter the sweepstakes and my computer went to a screen that said invalid request. So I’m not sure if I am entered or not. Has anyone else experienced this same thing? Thanks!
I did too!! I hope they don’t think I am entering a gazillion times! I’m just trying to get it to submit a gazillion times and it’s not working. Do you know if this is happening to others?
Yep, this is happening to me too when I try. I’m using an ipad…could that be the problem??
Hi Ladies! I had trouble earlier today when using my Nook, but everything worked well when I tried with my laptop. Hope it works for you, too!
won’t let either, maybe it doesn’t like Mac’s LOL
But I LOVE LOVE LOVE the book.
You guys, I figured out the “invalid request” thing. It’s a Safari problem. When I did it with Firefox, there was no problem.
So, SO proud of you. Proud of us. Proud of the tears, the laughter, the journey.
Thank you so much for writing this! I can’t wait!
I’m already planning “where” I’m going to read it! It has to be a special place and time, it feels like it will be a holy moment!
So happy for you Glennon, and proud to be a monkee!
Congratulations! I can’t wait to read the entire book! So proud of you.
I’m with Chimmy. Standing Ovation. Cannot wait!
…and I just got goose bumps!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read the first page, the one that just has the two quotes, “Be kind, blah blah blah…” and then yours, “Including you.” and of course I am balling my eyes out already.
Gosh, we can be so hard on each other and ourselves at times, when we CAN BE kind. And love.
I am so excited to read this and see the ripples of our Monkee story continue!!!
Glennon, I’m one of those ‘lurkers’ who rarely posts but have read and re-read what you have written and have been moved beyond words. You have given me new lenses with which to see the world. I can’t wait for the book. Congratulations to you and yay for all of us Monkees!
I keep trying to enter the sweepstakes and after I add all my information and push approve, I get “invalid request” Has this happened to anyone else? Help!!!!!!!!!
Same thing was happening to me, also, while using Safari as my internet browser. I switched to Chrome and my submission was accepted. Hope it works for you too, but can’t take credit if it does. My techy husband helped me figure it out the other night, when I was having trouble with a different website. Safari isn’t always recognized for some reason, newer, maybe? Good luck!
Same thing happened to me!
I was using Safari too, so I just tried firefox, and that time it worked.
I keep getting “invalid request” too and I’m also using Safari.
Yay!!! Congratulations!!! It is beautiful!!! I have already pre-ordered it through iBooks on my ipad!!!! So excited!!!! Will definitely buy a hard copy too, though!!!
I can’t get over how cool and special it is for you guys to give away advanced copies! Crossing my fingers, but for now I read the first chapter. It made me cry. I, too, was “born a little broken, with an extra dose of sensitivity” and am trying to figure out how to be real in this messed up world. Thank you, Glennon.
*standing ovation*
My first thought was it’s rather understated, as I was thinking sort of loud and proud kind of thing, but unsure exactly what that would look like. But, as soon as that thought popped into my head, the K.I.S.S. principle alarm sounded and I thought, PERFECT COVER. Sort of, less is more. I like it. Looking foward to reading it. Congrats on your work! All of your work!
Absolutely PERFECT!! So freakin’ excited for this!!
I am SO EXCITED!!! Love the image, can’t wait to read the book!!! And I’d love the image to purchase as a print, too!!!! Or maybe a t-shirt or coffee mug? Or all three