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A secret blog. An ex-fiancé. A marriage on the line. Taylor writes to the past to save his future in this novel told entirely through intimate online blog posts.



book cover of Steven Preston's online novel, Dear Richard
Dear Richard Novel Cover

Taylor has everything he was supposed to want: a thriving art career in Los Angeles, grown children who adore him, and Levi—a wealthy, kind, and devoted husband who saved Taylor from financial ruin. But beneath the curated surface of his life, Taylor is haunted. He is living with a chronic, quiet grief over Richard, the fiancé he betrayed and lost fifteen years ago in Ohio.

Unable to speak to anyone about his regret, Taylor creates a secret blog titled “Dear Richard.” What begins as a digital message in a bottle evolves into a raw, year-long confession. Through a series of intimate letters, Taylor dissects the anatomy of their relationship—the electric passion of two late-bloomers coming out in the mid-2000s, the struggle of blending two families, the financial stress, and the alcoholism that plagued them both.

Although this book is still a work in progress, there are sixteen chapters posted as of this writing.

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