Polished, never tamed
Beautiful enough to leave out. Honest enough to fill in. Every cover hides a secret.
Hardcover · A5 · 200 pages · $48 · made to order
The signature detail
The pattern is Morse code. Every column repeats one phrase, top to bottom, in gold. From a shelf it reads as elegant texture. Up close it reads as something considerably less polite. Seven to choose from — you pick which one is yours, and only you know what it says.
Your cover, in gold
“go f*ck yourself”
Em Dash — emerald. The namesake.
Now open
Choose the title, choose the shade, choose one of the seven secrets. Mix them any way you like — the covers you see are example combinations, not fixed editions.
The hero · on sale now
the letters you’ll never send. probably.
Everyone told you to let it go. As if you hadn’t tried. As if it were a balloon and not a whole conversation you’ve had a thousand times — in the shower, in the car, at 2am, with a person who isn’t in the room. Send it nowhere. Say it anyway.
The companion · coming soon
gratitude, with an attitude.
Blessings and grudges, side by side, on the same spread — because most days are genuinely both. The giftable one, if the person you’re gifting can take a joke. Still being written.
Wave two
for the perpetually behind.
Dusky blue · pairs with “hot mess express”
The planner for people who should’ve started yesterday. Pairs suspiciously well with the “hot mess express” secret. Not yet — but soon.
The teen edition · on sale now
Same mission, different voice. No exes, no grudges, no profanity — friendship, perfectionism, comparison, and the gap between who you are online and who you are at 11pm. The hidden message on every teen cover is the house signature: i am enough.
The teen cover, in its shade
“i am enough”
Sage-Mint — the teen lead.
Inside the book
The covers are polished. The insides are unhinged. Two prompts, two moods, your choice — the same page holds both versions of you.
Prompts are set lowercase throughout — it reads as a quiet inner voice, not a worksheet. Big prompts get two or three spreads; quick ones get one. Plain ruled pages in the back for when one spread was never going to be enough.
Why Em+Lo exists
I spent a long time being the composed one. The one who held it together, who was fine, who didn’t make it weird. And somewhere in all that composure I noticed something: women are allowed to feel almost anything, as long as we feel it quietly. Be sad, but not for too long. Be angry, but not out loud. Be grateful, always, on command, no matter what it costs.
We are told, in a hundred small ways, that our feelings are too much — too intense, too dramatic, too inconvenient. So we get good at swallowing them. We become experts at I’m fine.
Em+Lo is the opposite of I’m fine.
It’s named for my two nieces — one quiet and composed, one all glitter and volume — because every woman I know is both. The one who speaks with her face, and the one who speaks with her words. This is a place for both of you.
The prompts are sometimes sweet and sometimes savage, because real life is both. You choose which version of you shows up on any given page. Some days you’ll want to count your blessings. Some days you’ll want to itemize your grudges. Both are allowed here. That’s the whole point.
Beautiful enough to leave out. Honest enough to fill in.
Say the true thing. This is where it goes.
You were never too much. You were just never given the page.
Five prompts, free
Five prompts from Two Whom It May Concern, one from each section, as a printable PDF. It arrives the moment you confirm your email. The books themselves are already on sale — shop them here.