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Who's Publishing What: How Not to Be a Basic Peasant
Want to become a better version of your peasant self?
Kristen Mulrooney’s How Not to Be a Basic Peasant: A Medieval Bard’s Guide to Living Your Best Life (Running Press Adult) has all the answers — such as how to make a scene at a jousting tournament to remain relevant.
Including helpful and insightful illustrations inspired by medieval art, this handy guide promises to help you become just slightly better than your peers, even if you may never achieve royalty status.
Mulrooney, a humorist and satirist in a small town near Boston, is a winner of the 2022 Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence program. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, House Beautiful and many web outlets.
She is a contributor and editor of The Belladonna, a satire and humor site by women and non-binary writers, for everyone. She has studied satire and humor writing with The Second City.
Her words and wisdom on the pitfalls of motherhood appear in her McSweeney’s column “Letters to Mom.” She is the co-author of the best-selling Gilmore Girls: The Official Cookbook and wrote the humor book, Barbie IRL.