09/15/2026
This is vital. I write characters who have issues. Do some of them eventually figure themselves out and become better, stronger, and smarter people? YES. Do some of them not? Also YES. Some become heroes. Some become devils. And a LOT exist in a circumstantially-constructed world filled with varying shades of gray which they drift between. They make good choices and bad.
Your job, dear reader, is to learn from their example, to figure out if YOU are made of stronger stuff than they are. If reckoning with the temptations and struggles they face, would you choose differently? Would you sense the trap before they do—or would you only recognize it because YOU have the advantage gifted you by the fictionally crafted narrative?
