you don't always have to go it alone

I'm writing a book called THE DECADENTS. It's a bit different from my previously published novels. It's a book I've been carrying around in my head for a long time. I'm a little afraid to write it.

So I did something I've never done before: I hired a writing coach.

Her name is Rachel, and she wrote a book that I admire and deals with some of the same subject matter that I'm working with, if in a different form. I first saw her years ago at a Black Clock reading at a bookstore called...