Spotlight On…Me! Please hop on over to The Paperbook Blog to check out my little Q & A session. Jayde-Ashe is highlighting some of the contributors to The Paperbook Collective, and I’m up first.
For the next month or so, I will be shining a spotlight on some of our superstar contributors here at The Paperbook Collective.
Each and everyone of them is a creative genius in their own right, so I thought I would take this opportunity to share some love and promote their work.
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First up is the fabulous Alicia Austen, author of the chilling short story,
Beyond the Boneyard Gate,
published in Issue Three of The Paperbook Collective.
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To read the rest of Alicia’s story, check out Issue Three.
PDF ~
The Paperbook Collective Issue Three 2013
ISSUU ~
The Paperbook Collective Issue Three 2013
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Five minutes with Alicia ~
1. What is your creative outlet, and how did you first get into it?
Writing is my creative outlet. I started writing when I was seven, because even then it seemed like…
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Now I have to think of you as Alicia 🙂 Congrats on the publication. I enjoyed your interview, too. I like people with “A” names.
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Haha, thanks! Mae is my middle name, though.
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Alicia Austen sounds like the sophisticated writer you are and Maedez sounds mysterious. I like them both 🙂 One of my characters has a lifelong secret crush on his brother’s wife named Mae, but she spells it Mai–I don’t remember why.
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Thanks! They both reflect different aspects of my personality, and I enjoy using them for various things. Naturally, I prefer my old-school “Mae” (being named after my great-grandma, who was born in 1909) but any spelling is cool-even “Mai.” 🙂
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Hooray! I’m glad your wonderful story is getting more exposure.
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Thank you so very much!
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