There are sixteen copies sitting in my living room right now.
Sixteen books that somehow hold years of my life inside them!

I keep picking one up, putting it back down, staring at the cover like it’s going to explain how I got here. Reading it on paper and carrying it around feels so much differently than all of the screens I wrote this book on,

As of today, Man Enough for Myself is officially up on Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org.

If you want the hardcover, go through Barnes & Noble.
If you want the paperback (or prefer to support indie stores), Bookshop’s the move.

The full release happens on October 31st, which means this is the strange in-between, the part where the thing exists, but no one’s read it yet.

I’m excited. Nervous. Trying not to spiral about whether people will actually like it. Mostly just grateful it’s finally real.

Thank you for being here. For caring. For reading.

— Donatello

P.S. (Giveaway announcement coming next week — if you’re reading this you’re already entered, tell a friend ;-).)

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