I’m so… I honestly don’t know how to feel. I should be excited as I finally have the second book of my series ready to print. Plus, I hired this amazing person to create a cover for it and for the older Dark Secrets . They look amazing! I’m really excited about this. But at the same time, with what is going on in Ukraine…I just can’t get excited. I’m from an area where some of the people are like, “Oh, that’s so sad,” and that’s it. Others have no clue what is even going on and have never heard of it. Once again, I’m struck by the idea that I really don’t belong in this area. I’m just too different, always have been. I remember when I was in high school, I became a vegetarian. People looked at me as if I had grown two heads. It was such an outlandish idea for the tiny rural area. One of my fellow classmates said something that has stuck with me all this time. She said, “I’m jealous of you. You really believe in something enough to do this, and I don’t ...
