Beth Pickens Consulting

Absolutely not a euphemism! Link in bio: Parakeet 2026 🦜 Look, I’m really good at getting books out of people. I’m fiercely devoted; I have more than 15 years experience working with writers. I want to help you get out of your own way. If you’re ready - like really ready and sick of not doing it - PARAKEET is for you. This book wants to come out of you already! This book needs to get to its readers! This book is blocking traffic - let’s find out what is waiting behind it!

I just can’t do the endless posting work required of me. Please follow @dopaminebooksla because we have incredible books coming this spring / fall and a lot of tour dates to announce! Feel free to ask questions about the rest of the pics. I’ve already forgotten what I selected.

Available wherever books and decks are sold.

Sometimes I joojle my name just to see what the other Beth Pickenses are up to and if they’re doing anything unsavory that I wanna get in on. This time, my self-joojle RUvealed that my next project has already been listed for preorder. A DECK! The kind you flip through and use like an oracle or a creative tool! The Artist’s Deck will be published by @chroniclebooks in March 2025 and you can preorder it now at the link in bio, which benefits @dopaminebooksla I like to preorder things and promptly forget so life is always a mail surprise! 📦 📦 📦 I conceived of the project while on residency at @franconiamn !

While my relationship to social media is continuously buffering 😵‍💫, I still think it’s useful to state that June is social media reset month! I, and members of Homework Club, very intentionally delete social media every June and November to re-establish our relationship to social media. Call it taking a break, a cleanse, a re-centering, a recalibration - whatever you want to call it, let’s be intentional and reflective. Select the platform(s) you want to reduce/abstain from/use appropriately and name how you want to change your relationship. This month, I invite you to redirect that time, energy, emotions, focus and other resources back into your creative practice and life beyond the scroll. I want to hear about it so please share with me what you’re doing, not doing, and what you’re doing instead! ALSO! July + August get busy with a handful of *BONUS* workshops - if you want to stay in the loop join us over at Homework Club! 🔗 in b i o.

Rejection. The universe’s protection? Yes. AND. Rejection is painful, frustrating, deflating, exhausting, and undermining. AND! Rejection is vital for artists to cultivate, even make friends with. Artists (even your faves!) encounter more nos than yeses throughout their careers. Developing a healthy relationship with rejection is a vital sustainability issue. Going after what you want for your art - grants, funding, public opportunities, publicity, residencies - is largely a probability game. The more you ask for - of anything - the more you’ll get AND the more you’ll be rejected. All outcomes will increase. ↗️ Changing your relationship to rejection means: recovering faster, suffering less, feeling your feelings in real time, detaching, not taking things personally, trying again, perhaps even building up your rejection threshold to go after a quantity of rejections, thereby increasing the probability of getting what you want. ↗️ Want to deepen your engagement with rejection in a gentle, supportive, creative container? Homework Club is here for you! We’re engaging with this 📮YOU’VE GOT MAIL 📨 topic this month - head to the 🔗 in b i o and sign 🆙

I have the great honor of assisting one of my all-time favorite writers @michelleteaz with running a queer press, @dopaminebooksla both Michele and I volunteer our time to make this happen and a big part of what I do is raise money so that we can pay our authors and have the books designed laid out copy edited and distributed with our publishing partner @semiotexte our inaugural book launches next week: Sluts Anthology and I want you to buy it from your favorite bookstore irl or online The launch party is Wednesday, May 8 at @2220arts followed by readings around the country To raise money for the beautiful roster of books coming up, I ask you to shell out $100 for a fundraising Slut box which includes a signed copy of the anthology, a luxurious cum towel, and branded matches and lube! /shop

ATTENTION SLUTS! @dopaminebooksla has 80 VIP SLUT boxes remaining! All proceeds benefit our 2024-2025 titles! Your fundraising box includes: - a copy of the SLUTS anthology (Dopamine’s inaugural book) signed by @michelleteaz - a 11x16 jacquard SLUTS cum towel designed by @sethbogartofficial based on the book cover by @fayeorlove - SLUTS branded lube and matches Boxes are limited and ship NOW! Get one for yourself and another for the greatest slut in your life!

SLUTS ON TOUR! 💖💖💖 Weds, May 8th SLUTS RELEASE PARTY Los Angeles Poetic Research Bureau Doors 7:30 Reading 8:00 w/ Michelle Tea, Baruch Porras Hernandez, Hedi El Kholti, D-L Alvarez, Amanda Montell , Tom Cole, Daviel Shy, Sam Cohen, Lydia Conkler, Gabrielle Korn, Taleen Kali, Cheryl Klein, Cristy Road Carrera, Kamala Puligandla, Drew Arriola Sands + Bradford Nordeen Books for sale by STORIES 💝💝💝 Thurs, May 9 Fabulosa Books San Francisco 7pm w/ Michelle Tea, Kamala Puligandla, Drew Arriola Sands, Bradford Nordeen, D-L Alvarez, Tom Cole, Daviel Shy, Lydia Conkler, Robert Gluck, Baruch Porras Hernandez, + Cristy Road Carrera ❣️❣️❣️ Friday, May 17th New York City Dixon Place 7pm Michelle Tea, Cristy Road Carrera, Tom Cole, Daviel Shy, Baruch Porras Hernandez, McKenzie Wark, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Kamala Puligandla, Carley Moore Books for sale by HIVE MIND BOOKS 💕💕💕 Sunday, May 19th Hudson New York The Spotty Dog 7pm Michelle Tea + Laurie Stone in Conversation with readings by Chloe Caldwell, Tom Cole, Daviel Shy, Carley Moore, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Kamala Puligandla, Cristy Road Carrera 💘💘💘 Wednesday, May 22nd Madison WI A Room of One’s Own 6pm Michelle Tea, Sam Cohen, Cristy Road Carrera, Daviel Shy, Vera Blossom ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Thursday, May 23rd Chicago IL Women and Children First 7pm Michelle Tea, Vera Blossom, Cristy Road Carrera, Monir Meredith, Maran Daviel Shy Taleen Kali, Sam Cohen, Lyn Corelle + Jimmy Cooper MORE DATES AND READERS TO BE ANNOUNCED!

ATTENTION SLUTS! .@dopaminebooksla will be releasing SLUTS on May 7th! In anticipation, we’re selling 100 *limited edition* VIP SLUT boxes! All proceeds benefit 2024-2025 DOPAMINE titles! Your box includes: - a copy of the SLUTS anthology (Dopamine’s inaugural book) signed by @michelleteaz - a 11x16 jacquard SLUTS cum towel designed by @sethbogartofficial based on the book cover by @fayeorlove - SLUTS branded lube 💦 + matches 🔥 Boxes are limited to 💯 and will ship mid-April! Get one for yourself and another for the greatest slut in your life! Head to @dopaminebooksla or dopaminepress.org/shop to get a box and pre-order the book!

Just logged in to give you this astrological reminder. 🐸🐸🐸

This year in Homework Club we’re gonna do something new together. We’ll spend an entire calendar year nudging along a big project to the finish line. Pick any project that is nagging you, urgently whispering/pawing/screaming at you when you’re trying to sleep. Whatever it is, let’s make it in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣❗️ In honor of ♑️ season and yours truly, TRY HOMEWORK CLUB FOR FREE! Use code: LetsDoThis 🆓🆓🆓🆓🆓🆓🆓🆓🆓 Sign up through my website www dot bethpickens dot com