Joe C.

It is the discovery process. It isn't figure it out and then write what you've learned... not for me. The learning and breakthroughs come from the writing, research and re-writing process.

I've been part of the recovery (from addiction) community for years and years. While 12-step fellowships provide peers, engagement and all the benefits of community, the 12-step program has too much of a theistic bent for my irreligious worldview. So I went looking for a secular daily reflection book in or around 2007. I couldn't find one and I thought, "What the F***! How can that be in the 21st century." So with some goading from my recovery friends: Your a writer Joe; you've been clean and sober since disco; why don't you write one? It seemed at the time that I didn't have the time but what was playful jeering, became a call to action and by January 2013, Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life was published and finally, there was a daily reader for atheists, agnostics and everyone. And it has caught on with everyone; it satisfies an unmet need for nonbelievers but everyone likes it for its contemporary look at recovery challenges, culture and lifestyle.