It Sold. Parenting Unpacked Just Got Its First Pre-Order.

Parenting abroad book
Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk

Parenting Unpacked just sold its first pre-order. To a reader in the United Kingdom.

I do not know who they are. I do not know how they found it. I do not know if they arrived through the blog or through Amazon or through someone who mentioned it to them. I just know that somewhere in the United Kingdom a person decided that this book was worth their money before it even exists as a physical object in their hands.

Parenting Unpacked dressed Bridgeton inspired outfit

This is the part nobody tells you about. You spend months on the launch strategy, the cover design, the five versions it took to get here. And then a stranger somewhere you have only been once, where you know only a few people and were inspired by some authors and some wizards, decides yes, before the launch, before the reviews, before anyone told the algorithm to show it to them.

They just found it. And they said yes.

I’m literally over the moon!!! Parenting Unpacked launches June 24th on Amazon. Two days.

The United Kingdom is already in.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

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Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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