What Are Some Authors You Didn’t Realize Were Crazy Until Later?

Do you ever just wake up one day and your brain has decided to unlock some weird fever dream memory thing – and you're just sat back like, huh? Well, mine did that today. I used to read this series as a kid. It was a series about this group of young girls who become fairies – really sweet stuff. Anyways, I google them. Shouldn't have done that. Because I realized that a lot of the covers were replaced by badly photo-shopped ones. And this made me curious. And so I click on the author, then I see that a lot of their books have become very uh odd. Well, folks, I googled. I found their website.

And it looks…old. I mean. Old. You can just sense the energy, you know. And it is…bizarre. The very first thing I see is this.

Author Mission Statement: I believe God employs many helpers to combat evil, helpers such as fairies, white sparrows, dragons, foo dogs, gnomes, and garden spiders. He also uses ordinary people, who become extraordinary by doing God's work. In writing about some of the adventures of these heroes, I hope to showcase and celebrate their hard work in spreading magic and helping to save our fallen world. 

Let me tell you guys this. These books were totally normal. I swear. And I've got many friends who are witches, friends who are christians, some who even say that they're both, but there's just something a little unhinged about this statement, something that makes me think "oh god….this person is nuts" And I will be so real. These books were VERY very small. I mean, the first book of the series has 200 ratings on goodreads, the others even less. Also, they absolutely mean that mission statement. Like, genuinely.

Because these themes carry on into their other book series (no one has read it ever). And now I'm diving in deep. I'm on their facebook, I'm on their husband's facebook. I'm so invested at seeing when it started. I want to pin point exactly when one of my favorite childhood authors lost their minds. And I've got this little theory that either she got dropped from publishing BECAUSE of her personality or she evolved into this after getting dropped. I'm so invested. Also, yall, it's bad. The facebook is bad. It is rant after rant after rant about globalism, they even compared "forced masking" to the holocaust.

So. Yeah. This is my afternoon now. Anything like this happen to you guys or what?