Literally dozens of people read it, and a lot of them seemed to like it, but I have felt for years that it’s just been forgotten by pretty much everyone. I wrote a book in 2004 called Just A Geek. If any of that sounds like it could be difficult for you, I want you to know ahead of time, so you can be prepared. I need you to know that this book gets raw, vulnerable, and intense in a few places. A lot of that was incredibly hard for me to read for the audiobook, much more challenging than it was to write. I talk about experiencing abuse, neglect, and exploitation. I talk a lot about my traumatic childhood. I’m reading to you from the book I wrote 20 years ago, occasionally looking up to reflect on it.įinally, a content warning. I suspect it will help if you imagine that we are sitting in a room together, and I am just telling you my story. Industry professionals tell me this level of annotation and reflection is kind of a new thing for memoirs, and I wanted to offer a suggestion that may help ease you into the whole experience. If I did this right, you will hopefully see how I grew and changed as a person, and as a writer. he second half is essays and speeches I’ve written in the last handful of years. These footnotes are almost-50 me talking about the experiences of almost-30 me, with the benefit of twenty years in between us. I’ve heavily annotated and reflected on who I was and what I wrote in the early aughts for that book. The first half of this book is my 2004 memoir, Just A Geek.
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