To the owners of this site I must ask:
If you discovered that the material some of your authors presented to you was based partly or wholly on their own personal lives, how would you react to it? Have you ever suspected or questioned any of the authors about that possibility?
Maybe these authors are truly talented, because a lot of what I read just seems too real, and I'm not giving them enough credit.
But what if they are based on their own lives? Why would the authors choose to reveal so much of themselves under the guise of a character name? A sort of self-therapy, perhaps?
Dave