Happy new year from all of us to all of you – those of you who mark a year turning around now.

It feels appropriate that I have an addition to our Plural Tarot project, from last year, to share with you at this time. Back then we ended the Plural Tarot zines with the final card in the major arcana – The World – which showed me, Fox, heading out into the world to re-engage after our seven years of crisis and collapse, and our five years of deep retreat. The other plural selves in our system were very much in the background of that card, as that’s how I experienced them at the time. I wondered whether it would just be me, with Ara’s support, going forward, given that we hadn’t been able to connect with the others vividly – in the way we used to – for a whole year.

Turns out that – thankfully – this wasn’t the case. We head into 2026 feeling deeply connected as all seven of us (having had several years of just five, and one year of just two). I’m particularly spending a lot of time with our ‘critic’ (Morgan) and fearful one (Jonathan) helping them to know what essentional members of the team they are. It still seems to be me, Fox, who needs to engage with the outer world, but my ‘council of four’ are close by, informing all that I do, and I feel James and Ara holding us all. Here’s the new card which is the best depiction I can manage of how it feels inside Team MJ at the moment…

I’ve updated our Plural Tarot Companion, and Plural Tarot, zines on this website to include the new World card. All of this bodes well to finally writing the book we’ve been hoping to write in 2026: a book sharing the learnings from our plural path, expanding on the zines we’ve already written and exploring how this kind of work/play relates to mental health, relationships with others, social justice, and spirituality.

However, creating this new card also reminds us of how things can – and do – change and change again. Perhaps we’ll need to make further ‘World’ cards in future to represent new selves configurations. Being open to what unfolds – rather than resisting it – is certainly one of our biggest learnings. And, relatedly, this may not be the year for that book. We have a strong sense that we’ll need to be in a certain place, ourselves, before writing it, even if that won’t ever be any kind of end point. There’s a draw to various fiction projects too, as well as to writing about writing, and we’ll hopefully be making a third Queer Creative Health zine with QueerCircle as well.

In more certain news – for those who want to read our writings! – there will be new editions of two of our old books out in 2026. Routledge asked me to do a second edition of The Psychology of Sex, as they are relaunching their Psychology of Everything series. Managing that project back in Autumn gave me the confidence to revisit Rewriting the Rules (the book this website is named for): also for Routledge. That felt like a much greater challenge as the book is so personally meaningful to us, being the first self-help style book that we (or rather Max) wrote, and a book that sets out one of our most pivotal philosophies (that it’s important to rewrite our rules, the other ones being that ‘life isn’t binary‘ and that we’re all ‘incorrigibly plural‘ – the title of our next book!)

So watch this space for updates on those two new editions. The second edition of The Psychology of Sex includes a whole new long chapter about un/conscious sex and trauma, as well as updates about sex and tech, and queer/intersectional sexualities. The third edition of Rewriting the Rules includes a foreword addressing recent and current crises, new afterwords where I reflect on each chapter from where we’ve got to now, and a new afterword to the whole book about the importance of Rewriting our Rules (plural) at the level of ourselves, our relationships, our culture, and our ecosystems.

The Psychology of Sex is already available for pre-order, and I’ll update here as soon as Rewriting the Rules is available too. A few chapters in edited collections on love studies, neuroqueerness, and madzines should also come out this year…