She loves the slow boiling dread and gorgeously creepy atmosphere of gothic and how it never shies away from the absurd. One of the first novels she ever read was a story of a giant helmet that fell from the sky and killed the fiance of the main character on their wedding day in the novel “The Castle of Otranto.” She has said that she first started reading Gothic as she found the genre kind of silly but fun. It was full of the romantic tropes, drama and the romance she always looked for in a romantic fantasy.Īllison Saft has said that she always found Gothic romance fantasy so alluring which is why she includes elements of it in all of her novels. She finished the manuscript for her debut in one and a half months and was happy with it. She set out to write something magical, similar to what she used to write when she was not thinking of publishing but just to entertain her friends. Since Allison was devoid of any other ideas, she was depressed for several days and then thought wouldn’t it be better to write something fun rather than mope. She found it soulless as it was something she needed to write and not what she cared about.
By the end of November, she was done but after reading what she had written she dumped it. While she has always been writing in some form or another, it was when she was fifteen that Saft had an epiphany of sorts.Īllison is a person who is motivated by deadlines and so she decided that she would rewrite one of her manuscripts during the 2017 NaNoWriMo. She lived a very lonely life and found that in this world, she could escape and live in a world happier than her own.Īs a hopeless romantic, she started writing stories about people in love which is the same thing that her friends on the forums also wrote about. Growing up, Allison Saft was so into roleplay forums that she had multiple memberships on proboards and Neopets. When she is not writing her novels, she loves to play video games, bake and practice aerial circus arts such as the trapeze.
Saft’s biggest influences that made her get into young adult fiction are Melissa Barshardoust and Margaret Rogerson, and the many books she read while she was in school. She has also been known to write genre blending fantasy novels, which she complicates by adding in some elements of magic. Saft has been known to delver into historical, literary fiction and horror works even though her favorite genre to read and write is romantic fantasy. Soon after graduation, she moved to the West Coast from the Gulf Coast from where she writes her novels. She went to Tulane University from where she got her masters degree in English literature. Allison Saft is a bestselling American young adult fantasy author who is best known as the author of “Down Comes the Night,” her debut novel.
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