About me
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Short Bio
Tanya Lisle is a novelist from Metro Vancouver, British Columbia who writes fantastical stories with a dash of horror.
Medium Bio
Tanya Lisle is a novelist from Metro Vancouver, British Columbia who writes fantastical stories with a dash of horror. She has a shelf full of notebooks with more story ideas than pens lost to the depths of her bag. Now she writes incessantly in hopes of finishing all of them.
Long Bio
Tanya Lisle is a novelist from Metro Vancouver, British Columbia who writes fantastical stories with a dash of horror. She began writing in elementary school, when she started turning homework assignments into short stories and continued this trend well into university. While attending Simon Fraser University, she developed an appreciation for public domain crossovers and cross-platform narratives. She has a shelf full of notebooks with more story ideas than pens lost to the depths of her bag. Now she writes incessantly in hopes of finishing all of them.
Thankfully, her cat, Remy, has figured out how to shut off Tanya’s computer when she needs to take a break.
Artist Statement
I write stories that start from a single idea that grows into a universe and themes that require several books to explore. I love laying ideas in early and watching them come back around as future consequences that may have felt insubstantial at the time. Amidst putting characters through trials that force them to question their understanding of the world around them as well as what they are capable of in order to survive it, I explore themes of identity, belonging, and changing expectations. The horror elements and darker themes are almost always incidental and come about through wanting to either convey a feeling that cannot be expressed in a few words, or because I thought the visual was a cool aesthetic rather than outright body horror. I also believe that while most characters deserve a happy ending, happiness is subjective. As a character grows, they may find that what they thought they wanted was not what they ultimately needed.
Links
Website: https://tanyalisle.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TanyaLisleAuthor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scrappaperentertainment/
Suggested interview questions
- How do you go from idea to finished book? What is your novel writing process?
- How has your writing process changed over the years?
- Why did you decide to go indie?
- How does someone accidentally write horror?
- Since you’ve said you don’t write a lot of romance, what other kinds of relationships do you explore in your works?