However, things changed in 2015 when he finally finished writing the manuscript and published “Buried Desire” in 2016. Even though he tried different approaches and wrote several manuscripts over the years, he just could not put it all together. She loves the exploration of love and philosophy of Madeline L’Engle and the exquisite exploration of imagery and themes in legends and themes by Guy Gavriel Fionavir.ĪE Wasp has also been a huge fan of 70s and 80s speculative fantasies from the likes of Norman Spinrad and Harlan Ellison.Īs for popular media, his biggest influence was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”įor several years, AE Wasp tried to write an urban fantasy that involved mystical portals opening betweening alien realism and our world. Since that is highly unlikely, she decided to write her own stories.Īs for her literary influences, she has said that she has too many to count. Her heroes tend to be people with whole lives that include hobbies, family and friends in addition to romantic interests.Īs a gay author, she has always wished that someone would do a rewrite of “Fast & Furious” with the two lead protagonists in love. Wasp has always loved contemporary romance as she loves to read about protagonists with wild careers such as the race car driver or the motorcycle club guy. The Long Island born author has also lived in Bangkok, London and Los Angeles even though she now makes her home in Fort Collins, Colorado.
She invites her readers into the worlds and lives of her characters when they are at their most human, living with the same fears and hopes we all have.Īs an avid traveler, AE has lived in small towns and big cities across four different continents and discovered that distance and time are no barriers to love. The author spent time raising her kids, traveling the globe as an employee of the US State Department and earning several degrees before she came back to writing, which was always her first love.Īs an idealist and dreamer, she has made a name for herself writing of people that find magic in a seemingly very mundane world. AE Wasp is a fantasy, romance, gay and lesbian fiction author from Colorado best known for the “Hot Off the Ice” series of novels.
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