Sex, Love and Other Catastrophes

Authors

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  Dee Salmin

  Dee Salmin is a writer and an award-winning broadcaster, best known for hosting The Hook Up, triple j's podcast about love, sex, dating and relationships.
  
  After years of talking to people about their love lives, she's finally opening up about her own. It's Not Love, Actually is her debut book - part memoir, part manifesto. It's an unfiltered, feminist guide to raising your standards in a world that keeps telling women to settle.
  
  Dee lives in Melbourne and can usually be found in an op shop looking for gems whilst simultaneously voice-noting her friends telling them to de-centre men.
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  Kayla Jade

  Kayla Jade is a digital creator and writer with a highly engaged, predominantly female audience across TikTok and Instagram. She first built her platform on OnlyFans, later catapulting her reach on TikTok, where her candid takes on dating, sex, identity, and the realities of modern womanhood have earned her a fiercely loyal community.
  
  Her rise has been covered by major media outlets including SBS, ABC, The Guardian, and Pedestrian. She has also appeared on leading podcasts such as It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield and Big Small Talk with Hannah Ferguson, and hosts her own top-charting show, Storytime with Kayla Jade.
  
  Known online as BlueEyedKaylaJade, she now reaches more than 3.5 million women across platforms and has built a community defined by humour, honesty, and unwavering relatability.
  
  Call Girl Confidential is her debut book.
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  Madison Griffiths

  Madison Griffiths is a writer and the author of Sweet Nothings and Tissue. Her essays and investigations have been published widely in The Monthly, The Guardian, marie claire, The Saturday Paper, The Age and more.
  
  In 2025, she was awarded the ELLE Magazine Next Gen Writer Award and in 2022, she was the co-recipient of the Walkley Foundation Our Watch Award for Excellence in Reporting on Violence Against Women and Children.
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  Jacinta Parsons

  Jacinta Parsons is a radio broadcaster and writer from Melbourne, who has worked at community radio station Triple R, and for the ABC at Double J, ABC Radio Melbourne, and ABC Radio National. Parsons currently hosts the Friday Revue and Saturday Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne.  She has released two books, Unseen and A Question of Age. Her latest book is A Wisdom of Age.