ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aubrey Fowler’s first attempt at writing a story for public consumption was in a fifth grade English class. Tasked with taking a week’s worth of vocabulary words and turning it into a Halloween story, he crafted a haunted house story featuring a detective on the hunt for a murderer, and a ghost leading the way. Nothing world shaking or even all that good, but it got applause, and he was bitten by the writing bug.
His love of writing only deepened as he made his way through his adolescent years, learning the craft and emulating his favorite authors. Stephen King. Edgar Allen Poe. Anne Rice. And like those authors, he focused on telling stories of horror and suspense featuring vampires and werewolves, demons and devils, and even an axe murderer on occasion. All of it steeped through southern gothic sensibility and a love of all things pop culture.
With his sights set on becoming a novelist, he entered college to better learn the craft, earning two English degrees that he draws from to this day. He continued writing and working at story ideas all through school but set the writing and his dreams on hold when the need for a big boy job came along. One that drained him over sixty to eighty hours of work a week.
But there was something missing.
As he found himself floundering through his own failing marriage and a lack of desire to be a marketing professor anymore, he finally returned to writing and realized the dream still pounded within his veins. He also realized he’d transformed from the kid writing horror to cope with life’s turmoil to an adult full of robust fantasies set somewhere on the more sensual side of life.
He began with an erotic story of a modern couple entering a boudoir photo shoot with one Ms. Dita, the self-proclaimed goddess of photography. That beginning led all the way to The Champion: Flesh for Fantasy, his first published novel and the opening of a series that takes place in and around The Bohemian District. A story that, like him, suggests it’s never too late to start over.
