Floorbound (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/rjbowe Thereâs a moment in every indie authorâs life that feels almost mythic in its smallness. Not the launch day. Not the first sale. Not even holding the proof copy in your hands. Itâs the moment a stranger chooses your book. Yesterday, I opened my BookSirens dashboard expecting the usual quiet. Iâve had zero reads since I joined, and I was honestly considering discontinuing the service altogether. Instead, a single line blinked back at me: 1 reader. I ju...[Read Full Post] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:27:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1111972 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1111972 Some people grow up knowing exactly why theyâre drawn to certain sensations, and then there are people like me â people who are pulled toward certain objects or scents for no apparent reason. Iâve spent decades reverse-engineering my childhood to understand why a single object, a single texture, a single smell brought me comfort while so many others saw it as disgusting or gross. For me, that object was socks. Not bare feet. Not shoes. Just socks. For ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:12:31 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1111123 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1111123 floorbound memoir nonfiction olfactory theory psychology socks writing I had one of those unexpected conversations with my dad recently â the kind that starts casually and then quietly rearranges something inside you. I mentioned Iâd written a book and that it includes a few stories about me liking his socks and begging him to stand on me. The whole exchange still feels surreal. Thereâs something unnerving about a parent walking through the rooms you built out of old memories, especially the silly, strange ones about his weird kid...[Read Full Post] Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:47:15 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1110811 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1110811 childhood memories father son dynamic memoir taboo adjacent Iâm officially a soon‑to‑be‑published author. My debut memoir, Floorbound, is now available for preorder. Itâs hard to put into words what this moment feels like. This book has lived in my head and on my hard drive for years â writing, rewriting, second‑guessing, and finally deciding to let it out into the world. Itâs a story about identity, surrender, humor, and the strange ways we find connection. Itâs messy, honest, and sometimes ridiculous in the best poss...[Read Full Post] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:55:39 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1110339 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1110339 I recently posted on Reddit about whether I should publish my memoir, I expectedâ well, I wasnât sure what I expected. The internet is unpredictable. Sometimes you get thoughtful feedback, sometimes you get chaos, and sometimes you get a stranger telling you to âjust Google it.â But the responses I received were surprisingly grounded. No one told me not to publish. No one tried to shame me. Most people simply reminded me of something I already knew: memoirs by non...[Read Full Post] Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:52:54 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108427 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108427 I didnât set out to write a book. I didnât even set out to write anything coherent. My therapist had given me what felt like the easiest assignment in the world: âWrite down whatever you want.â No structure. No prompts. No rules. Justâ write. So I did. I wrote about everything. Getting older. My body doing strange, inconvenient things. Politics that made my blood pressure spike. Sports that made it spike for different reasons. Random memories. Petty grievances....[Read Full Post] Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:42:06 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108283 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108283 When I was a kid, my dad did something unconventional. It wasnât sexual. It wasnât inappropriate. But it shaped the entire architecture of my adult identity. It was the moment where comfort, confusion, and connection collided â and I didnât have the language to understand it until years later. Every major decision I made as an adult traces back to that imprint. Including the moment I realized Iâd finally gone too far. 'Floorbound' is the story of ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:25:58 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108123 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1108123