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Location: United States

Member Since: March 25, 2016

Amber Drappier

Biography

Amber Drappier (July 1992) was born in the beautiful twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Her father, born in Belgium, met and fell in love with her mother while on a job expedition to sweet T&T. And the rest, as they say, is history.

With a variety of passions and interests, Amber tries to not limit herself to one specific genre. Poetry, art, novellas, short stories, and flash fiction categorized as; thriller, fantasy, horror, surreal, western, romance, action/adventure, and Caribbean folklore, are just some of the categories under which her work falls.

Some of the major influences in her life and work includes, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Chuck Palahniuk, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Frost, Stephen Hawking, Vladimir Nabokov, etc.

Amber has her degree with full honors in Human Resource Management and currently lives with her husband in Florida, USA.

Smashwords Interview

Where do you get your ideas from?

My ideas and concepts come from my eternally day-dreaming outlook on life. Really it's whatever comes to me whenever it comes. I've tried to force my writing and it's almost always turned out bad. But usually I find that if I don't fixate on it, ideas and concepts come to me frequently and randomly, and once I sit down at my desk to write, the words flow on their own. Most of the time I never achieve the ending I initially planned and I think that that in itself is magical because the story takes on a life of it's own.

Most of the times my creative juices start flowing when I'm in the shower where I have nothing to write my ideas on, or just as I'm falling asleep when I'm too tired to get up and make a jot down the thought. I always promise myself I'll remember it but 99% of the time I never do. I think I've lost so many good ideas that way!

What authors, or books have influenced you?

I’ve found that I’m inspired by everything including the world around me. People I meet, things I see and experience, everything I do can inspire my writing to some extent. In terms of my favorite authors, the list really does go on and on—Stephen King, John Perkins, Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Lewis Carroll, Jean Rhys, John Steinbeck, H.G. Wells, Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl, Joyce Carol Oates, Paulo Coelho, J.K. Rowling, Isabel Allende, Chuck Palahniuk, Janet Fitch , Friedrich Nietzsche, V.S. Naipaul, J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Hawking, Jeff Lindsay, Vladimir Nabokov, just to name a few, are some of my favorite authors.

Where to find Amber Drappier online

Website: http://amber.drappiertech.com/

Books

This member has not published any books.