Hi!

My name is Rachael Mogan McIntosh. I’m an Australian writer, mother, crisis counsellor, genius witch and massive knob, depending on my blood caffeine level and perimenopausal cycle. I’ve written for The Saturday Paper, Good Weekend, Sunday Life Magazine, Daily Life, SBS and the ABC as well as News.com and the New York Post, among others.   You can buy my first book Pardon My French in paperback here, and in audiobook here; or my second book Mothering Heights in paperback here and audiobook here.

I went to Catholic school, where teachers once called a meeting with my parents after I wrote a story in which God and the Devil fought for ownership of my unborn child. I reached my menses at fourteen, at which age I was obsessed with late night talkback radio.

On my first day at my first job as a teenage receptionist, I took lunch orders for the entire office after visiting the toilet and inadvertently tucking my skirt into the pantihose I had pulled, so fresh with hope, from their supermarket packaging that morning. I only found that toilet paper was streaming behind me when an engineer said ‘Hey, look! The new girls grown a tail.’

Life has continued on in something like this vein ever since. Which is to say - who knows what this newsletter will evolve to be? Crinkum Crankum is an ancient English words that means ‘elaborate detail’. At the moment, I’m working on a series about ADHD, a series about perimenopause and a series about writing process. If you would like to subscribe, every new edition will go directly to your inbox.

xRach