Amber Fallon

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Amber Fallon
BornAmber Lynn Day
New Mexico, USA
Pen nameAlyn Day
NationalityAmerican

Amber Fallon (pen name, Alyn Day; born October 7, 1983) [1] is an American editor and a writer of horror stories and novels.

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Biography

Amber Fallon was born Amber Lynn Day in New Mexico. She grew up in several places due to the military postings of her parents.

She lives near Boston, Massachusetts where she works as a software engineer in the tech industry. Fallon is married with children.

Horror

Fallon read horror as childhood bedtime stories and has written and worked in horror since. Fallon began writing in the genre in both long and short form. Recognizing a gap where women's work was not included in anthologies, she went on to edit the horror anthology Fright Into Flight. Fallon began publishing as "Alyn Day", a version of her real name. She has described her work as junk-food horror. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Bibliography

Anthologies
Novellas
Short Fiction

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References

  1. ↑ Author blog. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Arley Sorg Reviews Fright Into Flight, edited by Amber Fallon – Locus Online". Locus Online – The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  3. ↑ Elena Nicolaou, Vero Romero (2018-10-26). "How Horror Authors Write & Come Up With Scary Stories". Refinery29. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  4. ↑ "Amber Fallon: Just As Vicious As The Boys – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds". Chuck Wendig. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  5. ↑ White, Gordon B. (2018-10-24). "Interview: Amber Fallon". Nightmare Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  6. ↑ "Interview with Amber Fallon". Author Voices. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  7. ↑ "AMBER FALLON: A FIVE MINUTES WITH INTERVIEW". Ginger Nuts of Horror. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
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