Mike, you write with such candor and openness.

Did you ever have second doubts or say, I'm in too deep?

I mean, did you ever have second doubts?

Yeah, every day as I was writing it.

But when I made the decision to write the book right, I knew plugged into writing communities and author communities.

And they say, write what you know.

Right.

That is the mantra that you get from those who have done this.

And so what do I know?

I knew recovery from addiction.

And so I made the decision to write about that.

And then I thought, well, what's the hook?

What will separate my book from the dozens of others write addiction memoirs.

And so I just started reading them.

And I read probably 18, 20 addiction memoirs, just to get a sense.

And I knew I had this notion of lifting up negative traits and behaviors that I knew I exhibited back then.

And I didn't see those in the books that I had read.

And so when you are doing that, when you're being that self honest and you're putting that in paper and you're talking about how dishonest you are or how you are not loyal to your friends or how you were thinking about yourself instead of others.

Right.

And that's what I wanted to lift up.

And so from that perspective, as I was going through it, there were two things that were going through my mind.

One was, yep, that's what happened.

But the other was, Gosh, I wonder how this is going to be accepted.

I wonder how this will land.