Blood, Sweat and Glitter
En Rusciano
Em Rusciano – singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven – didn’t mean to write a memoir.
She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the page.
Blood, Sweat and Glitter charts the wild, messy, life-altering five years that changed everything, from sold-out national tours to a historic National Press Club address, a Senate Inquiry and surviving Melbourne’s lockdowns.
This book contains everything Em couldn’t say at the time: the undiagnosed neurodivergence, the hormonal hellscape, the grief, the rage and the all-consuming, gut-punch realisation that she’d built her life by someone else’s rules.
This is a reckoning. A recalibration. A renaissance. Like Eat, Pray, Love, but the perimenopause remix: Bleed. Scream. Snap.
Hilarious and candid, Blood, Sweat and Glitter is for anyone pretending they’re fine while quietly falling apart. Strap in – it’s a hell of a ride.
- Release
- Nov-2025
- ISBN
- 9781763550759
- RRP (AUD)
- $36.99
- Pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback & ebook
- Category
- Memoir
Em Rusciano
Em Rusciano is a writer, singer, keynote speaker, comic and podcaster. Her podcast Emsolation was Australia’s first ever Spotify Exclusive, and her 15-date Outgrown comedy tour took Australia by storm in 2024. Em’s 2016 bestselling book Try Hard was released to acclaim, and her self-narrated audiobook was nominated for ABIA Audiobook of the Year. Em has a fierce, loud and passionately loyal social media community, with a combined following on Facebook and Instagram of more than half a million.
Pantera Press
Pantera Press is a publisher of titles that spark imagination, conversation and change, with both fiction and nonfiction on their list.
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World
- Rights Sold:
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Audio
- Contact
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Katy McEwen
- Website