Welcome to my personal website!
Here is where you can learn about me and order my books. My goal is to take you on my literary journey by sharing my process and the inspiration behind my first novel, The Fallen.
If you are a new or yet-to-be-published up and coming author, or writing is your passion as it is mine—I hope you will find my journey interesting, engaging and relatable!
Love,
Welcome to my personal website!
There is nothing for sale or being promoted here. My goal is to take you on my literary journey by sharing my process and the inspiration behind my first novel, The Fallen.
If you are a new or yet-to-be-published up and coming author, or writing is your passion as it is mine—I hope you will find my journey interesting, engaging and relatable!
Love,
Testimonial
Audrey Steidl’s debut novel, The Fallen, is a literary triumph! This supernatural romance thriller checks all the boxes. This is a binge-worthy book that cries out to be serialized and to be adapted to a screenplay.
Polished and perfect - so vividly written that you SEE yourself transported, overlooking the Amalfi!
Coast on a moonlit night as a fallen angel tells his tragic story of the human love he found during WWII.
This novel truly transcends genres, moving fluidly from romance to suspense to not quite fantasy (if you do believe in angels) to an ending that pulls all these threads together in a way you won't see coming.
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A supernatural romantic thriller based on two of the most powerful forces in the universe – love and fear and perhaps the MOST powerful—-forgiveness.
Don't miss touring my photo galleries of key locations that are the backdrop
for The Fallen with storyline hints! Just scroll down!
My Inspiration
As a child I loved the idea of bringing stories to life for the entertainment of others and would often put on skits with the neighborhood kids and my younger cousins. This led to leads in high school and university productions, as well as studying at the acclaimed Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London where I played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet. Returning to the US, I continued my acting career in Minneapolis/St. Paul, where I earned rave reviews for my "icily regal" Lady Macbeth.
My Writing Process
For a first-time novel, I wanted to use what was familiar to me as building blocks of my characters and story. Of course, imagination and the creative process took over from there. A good place to start is to know your characters. I believe for many writers, their main characters dwell someplace in their own souls. By that, I mean that you understand how your characters would feel in the circumstances that you place them in because, in a sense, they are you or at least someone you know well.
My Synopsis
This is the story of a talented and beautiful young man named Christian Atherton who is both blessed and cursed by secrets from his past, as well as the three fallen angels that have befriended him. What starts off as a love story quickly becomes a mystery and then, ultimately, a story of forgiveness and redemption as seen through the eyes of Rowan McAllister.
My Literary Journey for The Fallen in Photos
(Spoiler Alert: provides clues to the storyline. Please click photo to access that gallery.)
