Jamie Mustard

We had no value, and we were being penned.

And this is why I didn't speak out.

I was so ashamed and embarrassed by what had happened to me.

I'm connected to this love boat sci-fi cult.

And I was very embarrassed.

It was up until two years ago.

It was almost like I was living a double life.

No one knew.

My agents didn't know.

My publishers didn't know.

I mean, I had to do this kind of walk of shame when I decided to talk about it and call all my people and tell them about this really exotic past that I'd had.

It was a very strange couple of weeks for me.

I'm being literal when I say this.

I feel like I was being raised...

In captivity.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And because I was never going to write the story during COVID, I wrote this and I don't want to feel like I'm hawking it, but I want people to know about it because it actually comes out now.

I wrote this kind of sci-fi book, which is this like future adjacent version of Los Angeles called Hybrid.

And I wrote it because I was never going to tell my story.