Hello friends,

I’ve finally done it. After years of talking about it, I’ve written my first book : Augustin Station.

It’s been a year in the making: full of stops and starts, self doubt, and countless rewrites. I’ve written mountains of text only to delete most of it, second guessed myself more times than I can count, and questioned whether I was ready to put something so personal into the world. But somehow, through all that, I ended up with a finished book I’m proud of.

For a long time, I’ve wanted to tell my story but never quite knew how. Years ago, when I used to write a travel blog, I posted about getting lost in a small, crumbling village in Romania after boarding the wrong train. That post ended up being featured by Lonely Planet, a huge deal for me as someone who’s spent years using their guidebooks to plan my travels. That post still gets engagement in the comments to this day.

That trip happened at a turning point in my life. Just months later, I separated from my wife and came out as gay. The Romania story felt like the perfect lens to explore that moment, when everything familiar started to shift. I took the bones of that blog post and expanded it into something larger: a story that explores how I got there, what I was running from, and what I finally started to face.

Writing Augustin Station was cathartic. It helped me unpack years of confusion, and the pain of living a life that didn’t feel like mine. It’s a story about self discovery, about living a lie, and about what can happen when you decide to free yourself from it.

I poured my heart into this book. I hope it resonates with anyone who’s ever felt trapped between who they are and who they’re supposed to be, or simply entertains those who love a good travel tale with some spiciness mixed in.Augustin Station