The Birthday Book

This is the first book I made, and the first long-term project I’ve seen all the way through.

When I wrote this book almost six years ago, my world was very different from the one I am living in and learning about today. When I made this book almost six years ago, it was very therapeutic. As I’ve looked back on it for the past five years and decided to delay self-publication at every step, I think I was grappling with why I made it in the first place and whether it deserved to be out in the world. I still don’t know the answer. What I do know, though, is that I decided to release it now in the hopes that something I loved making, that I created, could serve a purpose. To that end, the profits from any book that sells (no matter how few!), I will split between a personal therapy fund and a donation to the Loveland Foundation.