Blood, Sweat and Glitter by Em 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.

Em Rusciano’s laugh-out-loud, self-searching memoir about life with the ‘diagnostic trifecta’: ADHD, Autism and perimenopause.

About the Author: 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.

28 Oct 2025
 

Blood, Sweat and Glitter by Em Rusciano ISBN 9781763550759