McKagan said in his Seattleweekly.com column last year that the book was not all about Guns N' Roses. "I want to make clear that this book is not a GN'R 'tell-all' or some other such 'rock' book," he wrote. "There are a lot of those at this point. Sure, I will touch on all of that, as it is part of my story, but only just a part of it. Rather, it will be a story of an ordinary guy who met with extraordinary circumstances, and the circumnavigation through these situations. If you have been a reader of my column, then you get the general idea of my headspace. I will be writing this myself, thick or thin."