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Gemma Vale

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I am a dark fantasy author based in the UK, writing stories that live in the space between grief and becoming.
I came to writing late—not because the stories weren’t there, but because life had other plans first. Three profound losses across my thirties left me searching for who I was underneath everything I had survived. Writing turned out to be the answer to that question.

I write with synaesthesia, which means the worlds I build come to me in texture and temperature as much as image and sound. Darkness has a taste. Silence has weight.
The shadows in my stories aren’t metaphors—they’re as real to me as the words on the page. I don’t know how to write any other way, and I wouldn’t want to.

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