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Souvenirs from my storage, a new series just for you.

Amber Tamblyn
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A stack of old scripts. Visible titles on the scripts are "The Hateful Eight," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants."
Here, Take This, I Love You giveaway items pulled from my storage.

Hi friends! 

For years, I have wanted to do something unique and meaningful with all the amazing mementos I’ve saved up from my career as an actress, director, and writer. My closets are stockpiled with three decades worth of memorabilia and treasures—more than any closet should ever be expected to hold. Now, it’s time to give some of them away, with the story behind each of them revealed.

Welcome to the inaugural post of Here, Take This, I Love You, a new series where some special artifacts from the vault of my memorabilia could become yours. 

Throughout each month here at Listening in the Dark: A Place to be Heard, I’ll be giving away items from my work and life that I’ve collected over the years—from signed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants scripts, to Joan Girardi memorabilia, to rare chapbooks and broadsides of poetry, signed copies of my books with special surprises inside, and even envelopes filled with goodies stuffed by my soon-to-be six-year-old daughter. (Who knows what she might put in there! A note! Stickers! A toy! Lint! The possibilities are endless.)

If you like what we're building here, consider telling your friends about our community or upgrading to a paid subscription.

HOW IT WORKS: To celebrate the launch of this new series, our first giveaway will be open to subscribers of all levels. You will be automatically entered to win just by being a member of our community or by becoming a subscriber before Friday, January 27th at 5pm ET, when we will select the winner and notify them by email. Feel free to leave a comment on this post and tell me something about yourself, or why the item might have some meaning to you, or just put 30 enthusiastic emojis of a person raising their hand.

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There’s no ask in return, though we’re always grateful if you’d consider telling your friends, family, and social media platforms about our community here.

Today’s item from my storage is something I’ve been excited to share with you for months: a limited edition chapbook made especially for the release of the anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition.

A Play button over a still from a video. Amber holds a small black book and smiles into camera.

When the book came out in October of last year, I asked my friend, Bill Roberts, a chapbook artist who specializes in limited edition letterpress prints, if he would make a small chapbook from an excerpt in the final chapter. The excerpt is from the essay “Roadmap, Revealed,” which guides the reader through a step-by-step exercise in reconnecting with one’s intuition. The excerpt, and the book itself, are meant to feel like a portable guide to be used often, whenever facing big life decisions that require a solid gut check. The book is handbound in black velvet with gold leaf lettering and small enough to fit in a pocket. It is 1 of only 60.

To learn more about this pocket-sized endeavor, become a paid subscriber and check out this Thursday's essay, “Champion of the Chapbook.”

One last thing. Today, paid subscriber benefits kick in and this series will become part of that subscription level for all future installments. Paid subscriptions help support everything we do here, from the editing, to the writing, to the programming, specially curated just for you.


Here, Take This, I Love You: The Fine Print

  • The winner will be notified via email, so be sure to add LITDsubstack@gmail.com to your contact list!

  • Unfortunately, we can only ship to the U.S. and Canada. 

  • If you would like to opt out of this giveaway, please email us at LITDsubstack@gmail.com and we’ll be sure to exclude your email from being entered in this series.

  • Please be considerate of this series and how much some of these items mean to me, personally. Giveaway items are not for resale. 

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Amy McGrath Hughes
Writes Write Hear by Amy McGrath Hughes
Jan 25Liked by Amber Tamblyn

Recalling 'Joan of Arcadia' I'm reminded what an extraordinary series it was. Your vulnerability and ethereal nature shone thru so many times. You had a 'TV family' that was believable and for wont of a better word, natural. I hope your daughter will someday be as touched as I was.

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Andrew Heard
Writes TV's Moral Philosophy
Jan 25Liked by Amber Tamblyn

This is really cool of you. I wish I could be a paid subscriber as this is something I would love to participate in.

Funny enough, the first image in this post presents a contradiction in what I would want if I could get it. I’m a big fan of Buffy and you have the script for the episode you were in featured in the photo. The problem is that it’s because of your participation in Buffy that I gave Joan of Arcadia a chance, which I am very grateful that I did.

I even covered what I think Joan of Arcadia is about in my own writing on Substack.

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