A Message from Faye:

 

A Little About Me

 

I'm a language nut and don't think a person can ever be too versed in language. I'm a farm girl at heart, but I'm often stuck in places away from nature, and frequent state parks quite a bit. I enjoy hiking, biking, and being around all kinds of animals.

I've taken an unplanned break from writing the past few years, but I'm sure you can expect more writing from me in the future. I've experienced a lot of life since the last time I've published anything. I apologize if you've been wondering about me - but you can keep updated on me and my work and get to know me a little on Twitter (follow me @fayehollidaye).

Pieces was my debut novel and was the first of what I planned on being many in the Merely Mortal Books collection. It set the scene for the rest of the series and tells the stories of a few lost souls who are desperately trying to find their own ways.

I wrote Pieces over the course of about a decade and it embodies my growth as a writer and the progression of my writing style until I began the Susie Chapman series of short stories (which is now a novella).

Pieces began as a fantasy, a way to supernaturally explain my panic and anxiety attacks as an adolescent, which I didn't know what were then. In high school, I began a psychological thriller/romance because I got tired of consistently editing and revising "The First and the Last Symptom," which was the very beginning of the book. Shortly after I began the second work, I chose to combine them simply because I wasn't sure how I was going to do so - I've always liked a challenge. Before it was ever published, it was already 9 years old. I've thought a few times to unpublish or discontinue it, but it's so much a part of me, that I cannot. Keep in mind that my writing has become much different in recent years and may be much more appealing than what is found in my first novel.

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I have a short novella (as previously mentioned) which was originally a short story series. I originally released each short-story installment one at a time bi-monthly from November 2012 to around September 2013. It was first inspired by a dream, but grew into a high school drama about a girl named Susie Chapman, who mysteriously disappeared and was never seen again. Each short story installment was told by a different narrator, all of whom were students at Susie's high school or people who otherwise knew her. All eighteen short-story installments were altered slightly and made into a short novella after the last installment's release and is now entitled Susie. It has been suggested to me to write the story from Susie's point of view, but I cannot promise that will ever ever happen, though I have considered it and may return to reconsider in the future. If you would like to see such happen, drop me a line and let me know.

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I also have a nonfiction short story series in the works, entitled Mr. Farmer's Adventures. It began as stories shared in my meetings with the narrator, and he has agreed to my publishing them, as long as I don't put his name to them. I've enjoyed them for years, and I hope my readers will enjoy them, too. I've tried to keep the vernacular of "Mr. Farmer" in the stories, and I've italicized words and phrases where his intonations rise or he gets excited, to try and make the writing resemble his storytelling as much as possible. And I hope this brings more life to the work, so that they read like they sound and seem as real as they once were.

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My latest release, My Heart and Soul Laid Bare: A Short Works Collection, is also available for purchase. To learn more about it, visit it's page via the WORKS tab drop-down menu.

 

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