Life can be so surreal sometimes. One day you can be reading a book — and not long after that you can be co-authoring a book with the very same author whose book you once read.
A few years back, I was reading Paul Maher, Jr.’s, Jack Kerouac’s American Journey on the 6 train in New York. Now, as you can read on his website, we’re co-authoring a revised and expanded edition called Burning Furiously Beautiful.
I’m so excited to be working with Paul. Here’s a little bit of his bio from his website:
Paul Maher, Jr., is a seasoned leader of Kerouac scholarship; what’s more, many of Kerouac’s family, friends, and contemporaries (including Joyce Johnson and David Amram) endorse the fresh, unbiased perspective he uses to retell the life and work of this great American writer.
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Maher’s Kerouac: The Definitive Biography (Taylor Trade Publishing, June 2004), is the first biography to be based entirely on primary sources. It is the most thoroughly researched and comprehensive life of Kerouac to date. It’s been selected by both Biography magazine and Vanity Fair for their “Hot Lists” and has received endorsements from the Kerouac Estate, composer David Amram (author of “Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac”), Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Historian and journalist Douglas Brinkley (Rosa Parks; The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey beyond the White House; and American Heritage”s History of the United States) has publicly praised the groundbreaking scholarship conducted by Maher.
Burning Furiously Beautiful will be published this year. Stay tuned for more information!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 
Proud to know you, in a we’ve-never-met-but-write-at-the-same-websites kind of way. This truly rocks.
Well done, Stephanie. Looking forward to that!