Dauna Needom, whose pen name is D. M. Needom, is the author of the Groupie Diaries and the Better to Burn Out series, which is a decadent rockstar saga with a dubious undercurrent of reality that’s set in the 80s and 90s. A New Orleans native who now lives in the NW burbs of Chicago. She is also the host of the Better to Podcast with DM Needom.