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3Q’s – Alyson Faye – Always a must read!

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3Q’s arriving again today and once again, I’m excited to see just what this author gets up to and how they craft their stories! I’ve long been a huge fan of Alyson Faye’s take on the dark and the disturbing!

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Alyson resides across the Atlantic and has released some phenomenal stories.

Welcome, Alyson!

Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?

Alyson: I write mainly between UK time 22.00 and 02.00. I am an ‘owl’ not a ‘lark’. I also write in bursts, sometimes thousands of words to get a short story drafted and sometimes just the finer detail of a poem and piece of flash fiction. I don’t write every day but I do usually edit, rewrite, submit and network with other writers most days.

Steve: Out of all your releases, do you have a favorite character you’ve written?

Alyson: Tough one this, cos I’m fond of a few of my characters, as they’ve lived in my head then on paper for quite some time. My crime novella, set in 1940s Britain, stars an escort girl, Maggie, and is my homage to those femme fatales of the film noirs. Demain published ‘Maggie of my Heart’. Maggie remains a girl I’d like to have a drink with and a laugh.

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!

Alyson: I am delighted to have my latest Gothic horror story in the latest issue of ‘Space and Time’ magazine #141 – called ‘The Glass House’. S&T is a cool mag and the staff work very hard (largely unpaid) to produce a top quality publication. My story has been wonderfully illustrated by Anthony R Rhodes. It’s a darkly Gothic tale of a blighted inheritance, a feisty but troubled young heroine, one heck of a scary housekeeper, experiments in the titular glass house and a horror waiting to be unleashed.

I loved writing it.

Steve: Bonus question time! What is your favorite album?

Alyson: Music isn’t my first love, but film is and old movies of the 1930s and 1940s in particular. So I choose :- ‘The Night of the Hunter’ 1955 starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Charles Laughton.

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