{"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":"2026-08-30T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:03:37","slug":"about-alyson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/about-alyson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Alyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A3-400-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A3-400-jpg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A3-400-jpg-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s start with what kind of writer I am. \u00a0I write fantasy, a little sci-fi, and flavour it all with some magic realism. I gleefully mix characters together to examine the illogical chemistry of love and romance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">You can see some photos of me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/media-information\/approved-author-photos\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/media-information\/approved-author-photos\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with what kind of writer I am. \u00a0I write fantasy, a little sci-fi, and flavour it all with some magic realism. I gleefully mix characters together to examine the illogical chemistry of love and romance. I was born&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","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":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735\/revisions\/1642"}],"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}]}}