What is this thing?
Hello! Nice to meet you! We’re Jen Lancaster and Karyn Bosnak – bestselling authors, friends, Internet OGs. It’s Always Something is a humorous newsletter of essays, musings, rants and raves about the things that consume us. Currently for Jen it’s finding the kind of seven-step skincare regime that will erase decades of too much wine and not enough sunscreen. (She is, to this point, unsuccessful.) For Karyn, it’s experimenting with mushrooms – and not the kind you put on pizza.
Who are we and why now?
Back in the early 2000s when the Internet was the Wild West, we started the websites ‘Save Karyn’ and ‘Jennsylvania’ – and they both went viral. This kickstarted our writing careers and completely changed the trajectory of our lives. 20 years later, our combined accomplishments include: 19 books published in over 10 languages worldwide, 13 New York Times bestsellers, one feature film (starring sexiest man alive Chris Evans), half a dozen ideas optioned for film & tv, four appearances on The Today Show and one on Oprah, and hundreds of stories about us in pubs like The NY Times, LA Times, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal and more.
Life is crazy and we’re proud of our success, but when we think back to when we started, it’s the community we created and the friends we made along the way that we cherish the most - which is why we’re starting this Substack. We miss it. We miss you.
What can you expect?
Our motto here is ‘No Rules, Just Writers’ – and that’s just what you’re going to get. We’ll be serving up a smorgasbord of essays, rants and raves about whatever we’re obsessed with at the moment. We’ll dish on pop culture happenings and the latest news stories, give hot takes on our favorite tv shows, chat with author friends and have guest contributors. There's much more to come and trust us – you won’t want to miss it!
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