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Aray Brown

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Born

in Louisville, The United States

July 06, 1976

Website

http://araybrown.com

Twitter

AraySBrown

Genre

Horror, Poetry, Thriller

Influences

Terry MacMillan, Stephen King, Alfred Hitchcock

Member Since

October 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/araysbrown

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Ever since she was little she always wanted to be a writer. She began writing at an early age, her short stories consisted of cartoon characters such as She-Ra and He-Man. Later on she decided to delve into something more real and personal. Despite the trials and tribulations she endured in her life, she wrote her first novel “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”, a tell all book centered around the life and times she spent with her grandmother while her mother was in prison. It was never published. She then went on writing more unpublished novels, honing her craft so to speak.
She became obsessed with horrors and thrillers when she was first introduced to great minds like Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King, watching horror and gory movies grew to ...more

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	Blood Is Thicker Than Water (Next Of Kin, #1) 3.08 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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When ArayThaCreator Was Born

Just like everyone who had a dream, I cherished it and was committed to following the same path of the successful creatives or people like me who broke in the business. So i wrote query letters, entered in more than a couple contests but nothing happened. I felt was getting any headway. This is all a part of the process right? Exactly. BUT, i was so focused and fixated on doing things their way th Read more of this blog post »

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“Sometimes the way to let go of the dead is to put someone else in their place. Price”
― Aray Brown, Blood Is Thicker Than Water

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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

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“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet."

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