Announcing my book deal! 🏳️‍🌈💰📚

A quick dispatch about the now-public project I've been working on this summer.

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Nick Wolny
August 17, 2024

Some personal news, as they say: I got a book deal! 👋🏼

Money Proud, a how-to book on personal finance tailored toward the LGBTQ+ community, will land in bookstores worldwide in the first quarter of 2026!

That announcement blurb William Morrow submitted deserves a double take. Highly strategic, with every word in that sentence earning its place—I learned a lot just by rereading it.

OUT Magazine finance columnist and CNET managing editor Nick Wolny's MONEY PROUD, a guide to personal finance and roadmap to financial independence for a queer audience, including relatable anecdotes and the underexplored impact of anti-LGBTQ legislation alongside step-by-step personal planning, pitched in the vein of FINANCIAL FEMINIST, to William Morrow, in an exclusive submission, by Dan Milaschewski at UTA (world).

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This deal has actually been done since June 4th, which is why the newsletter went on hiatus — I have one shot to make this manuscript the best it can possibly be, so it’s been more “Hot Google Doc summer” for me this year. 😜

Financial education matters because it has the power to change our lives, yet for many of us it continues to be a mental and cultural block. One survey from the World Economic Forum found that only half of U.S. adults were considered financially literate, with EU adults faring only slightly better. And in the most recent survey from Stanford’s Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, respondents averaged a failing grade of 40 percent on a five-question aptitude test.

For LGBTQ+ people, the snapshot is fuzzy because we’re typically not identified in the demographics, and we don’t have the same decades of socioeconomic data broken out by sexual orientation or gender identity like we do for race and gender. Private organizations have helped fill in the gaps over the years, and what their data sets show is that queer people also struggle financially. We earn 10 percent less, are less likely to have retirement or investment accounts and only recently secured overt workplace discrimination protections. 

By exciting LGBTQ+ people and allies about personal finance, we can empower a meaningful segment of the population to live a better life, and that is what I am setting out to achieve with this book.

A huge shoutout to Peter Kispert at William Morrow and HarperCollins, my literary agent Dan Milaschewski at United Talent Agency, and the brilliant people who’ve helped bring this deal to life.

Want to help? 

If you wanted to interact with and/or share the announcement posts on Instagram, Threads or LinkedIn, that’d be huge. ❤️

More to come, and lots to share. For now, though, it’s back to this manuscript!

—Nick Wolny

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