Overview

• Rae released a six-essay collection, I Should Be Smarter By Now, on Aug. 26 through Amazon Original Stories.
• She writes that she needed about $150,000 for three pilots and had roughly half, largely from a book advance for her first memoir.
• A promised contribution from a “rich ex” fell through a week before shooting, prompting her to fund the projects herself.
• Her business manager warned that the costs would drain her savings, and Rae says the pilots were completed but not picked up.
• Rae frames the experience as foundational to ColorCreative’s mission, and she begins a six-city book tour on Sept. 8 in Philadelphia.