What a year! There's a lot, and the first item below is the only thing I need your help with.

Nominate a college to receive a signed book

Before I launch into the news, I don't want this to get lost: I have a few extra books from unclaimed Kickstarter backers. I have chosen ten rural community colleges to receive copies of Women In Tech and they all know it's due to your generosity. I'd like you all to suggest the final 10 colleges for me to send books to. Please *don't* email me directly; give my email t@tarah.org to the career center director who's expecting the book and the first ten career center directors who email me will get a book! 

The University of California at Berkeley just taught a class on the book

Women In Tech was just taught as a special topics class at Berkeley. Angie, Kamilah, and I all guested in the class on different days. It was absolutely wild seeing 30 Berkeley students using the WIT book as a college text, and I am still blown away!

Book on multiple printings and coming out in paperback

This October, look for the WIT book in paperback; it's getting a new cover, too!

The book is getting translated into Korean

The publisher has just sold the rights to a Korean translation; I don't know yet when the book will come out, but I can't wait to share it with you all!

Brianna Wu is running for Congress

We're so proud of Brianna; she's running against the incumbent Democrat in her congressional district in Massachusetts. It's time for more women in congress, not just in tech.

Katie Cunningham keynoted PyCon Pune

Katie Cunningham just keynoted the prestigious PyCon Pune conference in India to a packed crowd! 

Kamilah Taylor is top Silicon Valley developer

Fortune Magazine just named Kamilah Taylor to its list of the 43 most powerful developers in Silicon Valley!

Book is on Audible and Kindle!

Don't forget that the book is available on Audible and Kindle if you want the spoken or e-versions of the book.

I'll keep updates slim from this point on; I will send out another when something really cool happens. The book coming out in paperback is AMAZING!

With a huge, huge thank you to Moz in Seattle and their extraordinary CEO, Sarah Bird, all the Women In Tech books have been shipped! 

I've found a couple of books that didn't make it to their homes, so if you can email me if you were supposed to get a hard copy at t@thetarah.com, I'd be grateful. 

The book is still picking up steam, surprisingly enough. We're all doing events in multiple areas around the US and internationally, so don't forget to email if you want us to come sign in your area!

We're all so grateful for the amazing support you've all provided. Please reach to me via email with any questions or any rewards you didn't receive, and I'll follow up with you personally!

Much love,

Brianna, Keren, Katie, Angie, Miah, Kamilah, Kristin, and Tarah!

Greetings all! A quick update: physical book copies will be packed this week and next, and will start arriving soon.

It's been a bit of a challenge getting the logistics handled; I'm coordinating hard with Penguin Random House to make sure you get your books ASAP.

For those of you with ePub copies, you'll receive a private link tomorrow to download it!

I'll keep you all in the loop as we go; wish us luck at the book launch tomorrow night at Seattle's Town Hall!

Tarah

I'm sending out the surveys today! I can only do this once, so please do answer the email question so I can contact you with any logistics. I'll do this slowly so I can catch any errors along the way.

As you all know, you are so very invited to come and cheer us on stage at Seattle Town Hall this coming March 29th! In awesome news, Brianna Wu confirmed she'll be joining me, Angie Chang, Kamilah Taylor, and Kristin Toth Smith on stage in a panel moderated by the killer Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse! Share the event with everyone you know! We'll talk about why we love tech and how it can be even better, games and nerdery (I anticipate some Star ${Wars, Trek} battle trivia questions!), the Easter Eggs in the book from our gamer and programmer friends, and what it's like to help others succeed!

Over the last month, I've been to San Francisco twice and had the chance to meet Kamilah and Miah in person! In a series of events totally unsurprising to anyone who knows me, we bonded over food!

Kamilah took me to a magical, magical land called Dandelion Chocolate in the Mission District! We had s'mores and drinking chocolate and cake and yet more chocolate oh god I forgot what I was saying yummmmm

Miah welcomed me to her house, where she and her lovely girlfriend cooked me AMAZING Korean food (I ate three helpings; don't judge)

Almost there! So much love,

Miah, Keren, Kristin, Kamilah, Brianna, Angie, Katie, and Tarah!

It's finally here! March 29th at Town Hall in Seattle will be the launch party for the book! I, Kamilah, Kristin, and Angie will all be there, doing a panel and discussing the book up on stage. Afterwards will be a book signing, and I can tell you now that there will CERTAINLY be some shenanigans locally for those that want to make a night of it!

You are the people that made this happen. I am very specifically inviting each and every one of you to attend, and there will be a special section for just the Kickstarter backers to sit in. Here's the link to the event! Please spread it far and wide and give it to anyone you think would love to hear the story of how this book came about.

https://townhallseattle.org/event/tarah-wheeler-van-vlack/

If I could, I'd let you all in for free, but fortunately the venue is only charging $5 a ticket. I don't know how quickly it'll sell out, but I know that Seattle tech companies are sending their employees en masse to this. I think they might open up more room if the event sells out soon.

If you are coming, please email me at t@thetarah.com so I can get a good count for how big the Kickstarter backer section they need to section off will be.

I am completely thrilled, and I look forward to seeing you all there. Some of you I'll be meeting for the first time and some are old friends, but it'll be amazing to finally see so many of you together.

Much, much love--we're almost there!

Katie, Angie, Tarah, Brianna, Kamilah, Keren, Miah, and Kristin!