Attention Internet Men:

I am proud to announce that my first book, titled “Wait. What Was the Question?” is available for pre-order on Amazon, releasing July 24, 2026. Amazon limits pre-order to the Kindle version. The paperback and hardcover versions can be purchased after release.

Link to "Wait. What Was the Question?" on Amazon

About Me

Most of you reading this are not here accidentally and know exactly who I am, but I’ve picked up a few of you along the way. So here’s a brief summary of “who the deuce is this guy?”

A long time ago in 201X, I became very slightly internet famous under the handle “Archwinger”. I was a 30-something man, married to my first wife, things were not going well, I was sitting on the toilet, and I typed something kind of like why my wife is mean and never has sex with me into Google. Many screen-taps later, I found myself on Reddit, a dumpster fire of a social media platform, reading a forum known as “The Red Pill”.

Over a period of a year or two, I became a popular contributor to this forum, sharing my own experiences and those of people I knew, assimilating the experiences and information others posted. Long story short, I became a tiny bit internet famous in a small niche back before internet fame and clout were as big of a deal as they are today.

Some of the big names in the dreaded Internet Manosphere today still quote things I pissed out of my keyboard over a decade ago. “Every unhappy wife is a rape victim”, “Assume she’s a slut but don’t obsess”, “Women are as shitty as you let them be”, “Relationships are restaurants, not banks”, and many more tag-lines renowned in the space — those were me. Each a title of an essay I wrote back in the day. In fact, here’s a link:

Archwinger's Old Posts on Reddit

Even Rian Stone, a well-known personality in our niche, as well as a man and author I admire — in fact Rian publishing his first fiction book was part of my inspiration for finally sitting down and writing one of my own — got his start summarizing and talking about some of my content. There’s an “Archwinger Anthology” out there somewhere that he stuck on the internet in case Reddit ever finishes dying off or decides to delete my vile writing.

I’ve continued writing fun and entertaining essays like the ones linked above, right here on Substack. I guess if you’re reading this, you probably already know that.

I’m not actually an evil misogynist. I just play one on TV. I have some pretty extreme viewpoints, but I don’t actually want to turn real life into The Handmaid’s Tale. I like women. And sex that women don’t want to have with you is really bad sex.

My first marriage lasted ten years, and our daughter, now 15, is amazing. My first wife turned out to be a lesbian (looking back, there were signs) — she’s married to a woman now and everything. I’m happily married to my second wife, we have two boys of our own (4 years, and 9 months), and life’s pretty crazy. If you told younger me I’d be living in suburbia driving a minivan, barely scraping by, that guy would have laughed at you.

In the real world, I’m an attorney. I do patent law. That’s actually a lot like being an author. I have to take something fairly technical that engineers and their documents tell me about, then turn it into a written description a harried government employee with an advanced degree but no time and huge quotas (who often does not speak English as a first language) will be able to understand after a quick skim, that will also make sense to a jury of normal-ish people if anybody ever ends up suing over it.

At its core, writing is really just a whole lot of deciding. The typing part is easy. It’s the dozen decisions you make every sentence that keep you up at night.

About the Book

The link at the top of this article will take you to the Amazon page for my book, so if you want to read the customer-facing description, it’s one click away. Rather than rehashing that here, I’ll give you guys some more interesting details about the book.

“Wait. What Was the Question?” is a voice-driven, character-based novel, told from the first person in a memoir/confessional style. It’s not actually autobiographical, but being my first book, I wanted to “write what you know”, so a lot of the content is very loosely based on things from my life and the lives of people I know, that I could write knowledgeably. But what actually happens in the book is nothing like my life.

My normal writing style if I just sit down and type tends to be kind of flowery, with complex sentences, too many clauses and commas, and word choices that make it clear I spent too many years in school, but with an entertaining and hilarious snarky edge that garnered me my small bit of niche internet fame.

The book keeps that same snark and wry humor, but the writing is much simpler. Almost choppy. Short, punchy sentences. Sometimes even sentence fragments. Like a police detective movie mixed with beat poetry. It gives the feel that you’re living in the author’s mind as you read his internal monologue, seeing his thoughts in real-time.

The story follows a man named Archer Wood. He is charming, but not likeable. He is intelligent — even insightful — but also wrong about most of his observations and assumptions. He has a wry, witty sense of humor, but isn’t as funny as he thinks he is. And for reasons that become more clear as the book progresses, he’s not very good at connecting with people. The way he acts works on people and entertains at first, for a little while, until it doesn’t. Over and over. That’s okay for a guy who’s into serial dating, but not so great with his daughter.

Recently-divorced. Just starting to get into the swing of shared custody. Has some substance abuse problems that landed him in court-ordered therapy. And is dead-set on muscling through and doing or saying whatever it takes to get by, in part a product of his classic 1980s Gen-X latchkey kid upbringing by a narcissistic mom and a dad who was more into his own things than his kids.

The book begins with each chapter having an episodic feel. Archer is having a conversation with someone. A therapist, a woman he’s dating, his daughter, his best friend, his ex. But in nearly every one of these interactions, bored or irritated by whatever real situation is in front of him, Archer launches into a story about his past. Usually (though not always) about a girl. That format changes toward the end of the book, but is fairly consistent for the first two thirds or so.

Through these stories, the reader comes to know more about Archer and his past, but we also learn that despite his charming exterior, keen mind, and witty sense of humor and way with words, Archer is not great with people. He thinks that by sharing these things about himself, he’s connecting with others, but usually, whoever he’s with is annoyed that he’s dodging the real issue, or just bored and exhausted by the way he is.

The reader starts out seeing a bit of a contradiction. The scene on the page may have you thinking “wow… that’s rough”, while Archer’s internal monologue tells you what a fond memory he’s describing. That divergence between what you’re reading and what our unreliable narrator is telling you teaches you even more about the character than the acutal content on the page. But as the book progresses and he grows, the distance between what you’re reading and what he’s telling you gets smaller. He doesn’t have a hero’s journey and conquer evil. He just becomes a slightly more honest man who’s a little better at engaging with humanity.

Disclaimer

I have not written a “manosphere book”. This is a work of fiction. It is not self-help literature. It will not teach you how to get women better or become a better man. If you learn anything from this book, that’s your fault. I take no responsibiltiy.

That said, the main character is a middle-aged divorced man navigating life and dating, and I’m the one who wrote it. So if you’ve been hanging around the Internet Manosphere for any length of time, you’ll probably recognize a few themes. I have not written this book as some kind of disguised attempt to narrate and teach Manosphere and Red Pill ideas to the masses — so don’t read it looking for that. It is literally just regular fiction. But being who I am and what it’s about, some of those ideas are going to be in there in various forms.

Conclusion

If you’ve enjoyed reading anything I have ever written on Reddit, Substack, X, or just in our chats on the internet, or if you think anything about me is the slightest bit interesting, you will enjoy “Wait. What Was the Question?”

The writing is entertaining. Even a little hilarious. But mixed with some powerful emotional beats. Especially if you’re a dad, but even if you’re not.

Also, while I’m a man and my audience is primarily internet men, it is 100% possible for women to enjoy this book. The main character is funny and flawed, not an annoying internet misogynist in paper form. You’ve dated that guy. You liked him at first then hated him. But don’t worry. He hates himself, too. And he gets a little better in the end. The writing is crafty and fun. Perfect for Monday night book club.

So all of you: pre-order the book (or buy a physical copy when it’s released July 24), spread the word, and tell your friends. Niche authors live and die by word of mouth. Writing books is hard, and this one’s pretty good, so it would suck if nobody read it.

Thanks for riding along, and for reading my internet pontifications over the years.