Alyson Madden-Brooker is a fantasy and romance author who left the UK in 2019 and now resides in Spain.  She self publishes her books, both collections of short stories and her ongoing “Forgotten Wings” fantasy series, on the Amazon Kindle platform.

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I was born a good bit before the Internet was invented: I’m not old though, just very nicely experienced. As a teenager I used to write stories which reflected an early literary diet of science fiction. I did this on an actual typewriter (yes, a real one and I even learned to touch-type) before some bright spark invented computers. Then life got in the way and I stopped my stories for a long, long time. I did carry on reading though and enjoyed many of the absolutely brilliant writers that there are out there. Hopefully I learned something from them all.

But that need to write grew, and new possibilities opened up with the advent of digital publishing. So here I am, writing my stories and finally getting them out into the world.

I like growing my plots organically, starting with an idea, maybe only a scene, and let it all develop as I write. The thrill is to make sense of it all, to see the characters you have created gain depth and interact with each other. There is a beauty to linking things together in a story, to write scenes that affect me every time I read them.

I have learned that there is something magical in everyone, and that love holds this power on a higher scale altogether. This runs in all my works, either displayed boldly, or running stealthily beneath the surface.

Although many of my characters are LGBT, my stories are there for everyone, because everyone should enjoy a good adventure, and everyone should embrace love and romance within thieir own soul. All of us are equal, wonderful and beautiful.