{"id":105,"date":"2020-01-17T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:39:06","slug":"meet-amy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/meet-amy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmartSelect_20240421_134346_Gallery-1-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1688\" style=\"width:162px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmartSelect_20240421_134346_Gallery-1-731x1024.jpg 731w, http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmartSelect_20240421_134346_Gallery-1-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmartSelect_20240421_134346_Gallery-1-768x1076.jpg 768w, http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmartSelect_20240421_134346_Gallery-1.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 85vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Amy Marie Ayres<\/strong> is a prolific author who writes across satirical speculative fiction, urban fantasy, and now romance . No matter the genre, her stories are where humor and darkness coexist, the surreal becomes a mirror for the truths we avoid, and identity is always a moving target. Her work walks the line between the uncanny and the absurd, using satire to expose the cracks in our world and vivid storytelling to slip through them. She the author of the Luccee Winterscott series, a dystopian sci-fi trilogy set in the 2080s that follows two siblings on opposite sides of a corrupt megacorporation in a world where introversion is a crime and grief for the former world is their battleground. The series won the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for its opening novel <em>Star Lost.<\/em> Her standalone novella <em>She Went Rogue<\/em> is a punk-laced tale of three young Fae carving out a sound in the smoke-cloaked basements of 1970s Manchester. Amy is also published in multiple anthologies. Beyond her fiction, Amy runs Offbeat Ink&#8217;s Book Finishers Lab, where she works with neurodivergent writers to help them finally finish their books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Marie Ayres is a prolific author who writes across satirical speculative fiction, urban fantasy, and now romance . No matter the genre, her stories are where humor and darkness coexist, the surreal becomes a mirror for the truths we avoid, and identity is always a moving target. Her work walks the line between the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/meet-amy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet Amy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"0","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}