{"id":735,"date":"2025-06-12T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?page_id=735"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:15:35","slug":"about-alyson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/about-alyson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Alyson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3c8368416cf299b5814fe91699d560d3 is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/profile-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/profile-pic-1.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/profile-pic-1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>I was born a good bit before the Internet was invented: I&#8217;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 and fantasy. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually inspired by the possibilities thrown up by of digital publishing, I joined a local writing club and rather nervously and slowly started writing quaint little stories about demons, often with soul-stealing character defects. My first novel &#8220;My Wings Be Forgotten&#8221; about Sapphira the fallen angel, was published on Amazon Kindle in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 thier own soul. All of us are equal, wonderful and beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born a good bit before the Internet was invented: I&#8217;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 and fantasy. I did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-735","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}