It is a faithful stand-in, built entirely from my own writing, my journals and the book that came from them, that answers the way I would. It is not me at a keyboard, and it is not a person typing back. It is honestly an AI, made from my mind, and it speaks in my voice because the words come from my life.

It is a novel based on real events from my life. The format is fiction, with invented names and built-out scenes, partly to protect real people, but the heart of it, what actually happened to me, is real.

If you are signed in, yes. Your name, your situation, the people and dates that matter, so we pick up where we left off. One tap, Make Bill forget me, erases all of it. Not signed in means no memory at all, and every chat starts fresh.

Yes. You are never the product, nothing is sold, and a conversation is saved only if you choose. What you type is sent securely to be processed, the same way any AI chat works. You can delete your saved conversations any time.

No. You can talk to me right now, free, with no account and nothing to download. A free account just lets me remember you. You only pay if you want more, and you can stop any time.

You can start free with no account. A free account is zero dollars and lets me remember you. Plus is five dollars a month, Premium is nine dollars a month, and there is a one-time pack of 100 answers for nine dollars. You only pay if you want more.

No. It is a supportive conversation, not treatment, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for professional care or for the real people in your life. It is company between the moments that matter, not a replacement for them.

Two kinds of people, and often both at once. Readers of Half-Raised who want to talk about the book, what was real, why a scene happened, and what it meant. And anyone carrying something heavy who needs someone who has been there, at an hour when no one else is awake.

Yes, and it is one of my favorite things to do. Ask about any scene, any choice I made, any line that stayed with you. There is an Ask Bill about this panel built right into the online reader, so you can highlight a passage and turn straight to me about it, while you are reading or after you finish.

It can sit with you in it, because I lived it three times over. It is not a diagnosis and not a substitute for a professional or for a real safety plan, but it understands the shape of it from the inside.

It is grounded in my own writing, my journals and the book that came from them. When you say something, it looks through that for the parts of my life that fit what you are carrying, so the answer comes from what really happened.

No. It is honest that it is an AI built from my mind. It speaks in my voice because the words are from my life, but it never pretends to be flesh and blood typing back to you.

Yes. One tap, Make Bill forget me, erases everything it has learned about you, no questions asked. You can also delete your saved conversations any time.

One is coming next. For now you can talk to me right here in your browser, on any device, with no download. If you have an account, it picks up where you left off.

It took me over fifty years to reach a safe place, and I came closer to not making it than I like to say. I built the thing I wish I had had, so someone else can get there faster than I did.