[Book Tour] [Guest Post] Worst Ideas for a New Year’s resolution, by Merricat Mulwray

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Worst Ideas for a New Year’s resolution By Merricat Mulwray

There are memes and ads that make their way around social media during the holidays, something along the order of “Happy New Year! See you at the gym.”  It immediately makes us laugh thinking of how the gyms scam well-intentioned people who go to the gym for one month but get stuck paying for the year.  New Year’s resolutions are the worst ideas. But the worst ones are those that are a huge departure from what you already do, have you give up things you love because someone else wants you to, or because you feel pressure to change because it’s the new year. 

How many times have you or a friend used the New Year’s diet or gym membership as an excuse from Thanksgiving to New year’s to scarf down all the candies, pies, drinks and extra portions? We know we sure have. The fact is that it just provides the cover to indulge in bad habits.  So you end up spending roughly 90 days setting up the worst habits because magically at the end of the year, you are going to go cold turkey, cut all your bullshit and get it together.  It takes 30 days to make a habit.  And you’ve just done that times three. Now the gyms are playing on the fact that you now feel like a total piece of shit to get your money for a whole year. Fuck that resolution! Don’t make it in the first place. If you don’t have the excuse you probably will do better at not overindulging in the first place. And here’s a pro tip- if you want to quit something it takes multiple attempts.  Ask any ex-junkie, ex-smoker, ex-overeater, etc. It took us many times to quit smoking. Don’t make yourself a failure before you even get a chance to really try.

One of our favorite quotes is from Madonna. She once said, “Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.” Countless people are pressured into giving up things they love because someone else doesn't want you to do it. Everything from giving up time with the girls or the boys, or just doing less of what you like in general because of someone else. It will only make you miserable and resentful. And then you’re the asshole who let someone else down because you couldn't stop being you. How about you get rid of them instead? But don’t get it twisted. If someone is asking you to give up fifteen cokes a day because you’re prediabetic, give up the cokes.

Next year when you hear resolutions shouted between friends over blaring music when hips are swaying before the countdown;  “I’m on the wagon tomorrow,” says a guy gripping the neck of a champagne bottle between gulps. “I’m going to go to less live music to save money so my partner can spend more on becoming a professional gamer,” says the girl who loves music. And of course, the person who says, “I don’t know.” But is met with a chorus of, “ You have to do something. It’s the New Year you have to change.” You can laugh at that empty bullshit too.  Change what you want when you want and only if you want.

Sourpuss
Merricat Mulwray
Publication date: January 20th 2019
Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, New Adult

Sourpuss is a blistering satire of the depraved and entitled culture that pervades college campuses.

Mallory Wahl loathes the campus party scene . . .

She’s sprinting through her senior year obsessed with winning a spot on the US Olympic track team. But she runs straight into a hurdle in the form of fraternity president Graham Patterson, an intern assigned to help her recover from an injury – one she blames on him.

Once Graham’s therapies begin to work, Mallory pretends to fall in love but traps herself in her own scheme and tailspins deep into his debauched world. When a scandal erupts which threatens to shatter her Olympic dreams once and for all, Mallory must finally face the dark truth she’s been running from since freshman year.

In the style of a ’90s dark comedy flick, Merricat Mulwray’s debut brings an insightful and humorous perspective to the reckless behavior college students perpetually get away with. Mallory, herself a flawed heroine, is backed by a self-serving cast of athletes, party girls, townies, and fraternity brothers so hilariously dark that the book will leave you wondering if anyone ever gets what they deserve.

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Author Bio:
Merricat Mulwray is the collaboration of two sisters. They live in Los Angeles where they hatch plans and develop schemes, sometimes these turn into novels.

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