There is no shortage of novels, memoirs, poetry, songs, movies, and how-to/self-help guides about teenage angst and mid-life crises. But is the vast state of twentysomethings truly being captured? When the quarter-life crisis is being discussed, it seems to be either understated, trivialized and glossed over - or, on the other extreme, woefully misrepresented.

We are the generation of now. We supply the up-and-coming stars, models, actors, athletes and musicians of today. But these few voices do not necessarily speak for us, nor do they accurately portray the lives we lead. Are they just impossible, uncomfortable standards to pursue? And has our generation - more than any other - fallen prey to increasing media standards and cultural conformity?

There are over a billion people alive today between the ages of 18 and 30 and it is simply not possible that with such a wide base of individuals to pull from, the only stories worth telling, lives worth examining and issues worth discussing are the ones currently being airbrushed and mass-marketed around the globe.

We want you to help us create and compile a collection of pieces about you. We want to publish a book about your hardships, your joys, your pleasures and your pains; a book about what you are going through, what you have gone through, and how and where you are going.

We don't want to define the quarter-life crisis for you. We can't. The term has different connotations and nuances that are specific to each of us. That's why we're not looking to patch together a how-to handbook on "Coping with the Quarter-Life Crisis" with easy, generic solutions to clichéd problems.

Instead, we want to put together a book that accurately deals with some of the issues and challenges facing our generation today without sugar-coating difficult circumstances or falling into self pity.

  What are we looking for? >>