Biography
Faye writes the kind of stories that give her the strength and courage she needs in life. You can expect dark themes, high stakes, true love, and fierce heroines who struggle through their broken pasts to find human connection and salvation. Her works are best described as dark fantasy with strong romantic subplots featuring non-human characters with entirely human feelings and weaknesses.
She shares her writing space with a wildly supportive husband who regularly leaves her ‘cofferings’, three tiny humans who provide just the right amount of distraction, and a former Egyptian street cat who warms her lap to the purrfect writing temperature.
When she’s not writing, you can find her traversing the outdoors and photographing everyday moments, changing her perspective and finding the hidden beauty in life.
Credit
: About | The Sisterhood of the Black Pen
Questions
Why did
you decide to write dark fantasy?
I think we
write what we enjoy. These are the types of books that have always grabbed a
hold of me, and so they are the ones I write because they’ll keep my interest
long enough to get the story on the page.
What do
you like the most about writing?
I like
knowing the story isn’t just for me. That I can bring other people into my
worlds by having them read my books.
What
advice will you give to a new author?
Keep the
momentum going. Editing is like writing the book all over again. Anything you
think is rough while you’re writing it will be revisited a hundred times. Fear
holds us all back. Try things out. See what works. You’re not releasing it into
the wild as a first draft.
Which
struggles did you meet when you wrote your first book?
One big
thing I struggled with was the desire to share with everyone right away before
it was ready. As creatives, sharing is a big part of why we do what we do, and
resisting that urge was a challenge. In Stephen King’s writing book, he talks
about keeping a story just for you until it’s ready, and I’ve come to believe
strongly in that. It exists for me until I’ve spent the time getting it right.
That’s not to say you can’t share snippets and talk about the book on social
media. You can and probably should.
Other than
the need to share, I think my biggest struggle was working through the emotions
of writing out a story that had been with me for a very long time. I had a lot
of fears associated with the story of my heart being something anyone would
want to read, and sometimes that made it feel like I was typing with
razorblades under my fingers. Pressing through it, and reminding yourself how
much I love the story is what allowed me to finish. As a writer, you’re also
your story’s first reader. If you truly love it, chances are at least some
others will too.
Do you
listen to music when you are writing? If yes, do you have a special song?
I really
don’t. I’d love to say I have a cool playlist of music that sets the tone for
writing, but the truth is I listen to white noise. Anything with lyrics or
sometimes even classical music with a rhythm distracts me. I need my whole
auditory loop to focus on writing.
What are
your future projects?
Right now,
I’m focused on completing my current series, Breeders. There will be five books
in the series, and I’m currently working on number three. I took a break from
Breeders last year to work on my first manuscript and release it in two books
(Ancients and Coming Home), and I have a number of Breeder readers who
regularly message me asking after book three. My intention was to work on
editing these drafts while writing the next Breeders book, but I ended up
struggling to shift between the two worlds, and it was a mess. I’ve learned I
need to move through one series at a time. It’s frustrating, but necessary.
Once I’m
done the Breeders series, I plan to return to my other actively releasing
series (Bloodcharm). After that next book is out (title is Lost and Found), I
have a dark fantasy I’ve been pining over. It’s drafted and sitting on my
digital shelf until I can get to it, and it’s fabulously dark, gritty, spicy.
I’m an old school fantasy reader and want to work on the worldbuilding, so no
it’s not finished. The book is titled, ‘When the Stars Whisper,’ has a cover,
and is basically sitting there taunting me. Lion shifters rule the world as
they have been set to be rulers by the stars the people worship who spoke to
the people and decreed a lion shifter must rule the kingdom.
The fmc is
a female lion shifter in the king’s harem who was raised to serve the crown,
and who realizes no one is willing to save her from the king’s abuses. She
seeks a challenger to the crown in the form of a traveling musician who is
forced to obscure his identity.
and because
I’m a sharer, here’s the cover. P.S. I make my own covers, and this remains one
of my favourites.
Thanks at the author for sharing this amazing cover
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