A Five Week Journey

This blog post is a bit different from our previous ones. Rather than informing you about medieval women, or historical gender issues, or weird medical misconceptions from antiquities, we are going to talk about our journey of the last five weeks.

On December 10, 2014, our book, The Medieval Vagina: An Hysterical and Historical Look at All Things Vaginal During the Middle Ages, was finally published and available to purchase through Amazon. This achievement caps off two years of writing, researching, writing some more, giggling, editing, revising, more giggling, and more writing. We both can honestly say that we had fun writing this book. We know we are writing a strange and sometimes embarrassing topic, but through our research, we have been inspired by women of the medieval era. We are inspired enough to keep writing.

It was all worth it as we watched the number of books sold rise higher and higher. We haven’t quite reached the level of J.K. Rowling (although we do seem to be gaining popularity in England), but we have been pleased with the sales, which has spurred us on to market the book to a wider audience.

On December 19, we had a book launch party and we shared excerpts from The Medieval Vagina with those in attendance. We had our first media interview and are looking forward to seeing the article about our book when it hits the newspaper. We have been invited to be guest bloggers on a medieval history blog (which we will link to our blog as soon as it comes out) and are in negotiations with a bookstore in Texas who wants to carry our book. We have also been invited to speak at Ignite Michiana, which is an event featuring brief talks on a wide range of topics, presented by a variety of speakers, with the overall goal to inspire and ignite. We even started our own webpage!

We know we have much to do to get the word out about The Medieval Vagina and we realize that marketing is a never-ending process. We have learned quite a bit so far and more every day. Much has happened in five short weeks and we can’t wait to see what opportunities arise in the next five weeks!