'The Girl Who Writes From Dreams'

Escaping Dreams, Bronwen Winter Phoenix's debut novel will be released this 
summer but Bronwen has revealed her ideas come from somewhere just a little 
bit extraordinary.

"I write from dreams," said Bronwen, "I have the most vivid dreams that 
sometimes play out like movies and sometimes they are highly complicated, 
twisted and even horrific in detail. They are emotional too. They can scare 
me sometimes."

Escaping Dreams is fantasy/horror fiction and based on a world called Orenia.
It focuses on two main characters; Xanther Aerts, an unlikely hero finds a 
newfound freedom, having confined himself to his apartment. He suffers from 
a form of agoraphobia which means he is only able to leave his house at night
under the cover of darkness. 

When he meets Beth Elretha by chance and saves her life, they are thrown 
together in a journey of epic proportions. Beth's dreams haunt her every-day 
life and it soon becomes apparent she is not all that she seems – she is in 
fact from another world.

The action centres on a dying town overrun by gangs, including Sam Cullen's. 
As the town grows more deserted the extremity of the situation brings to life 
the underground which holds a flourishing city, a city where Beth first found 
her new home. 

As her secret starts to escape her she must defend all that she holds dear, 
against the once-powerful race of the Chaka.

Bronwen, 23 from Glasgow, Scotland said, "The story starts off quite dark but 
then light shines through. I tried to fill my writing with beauty as well as 
horror."

"Writing from dreams feels more like writing from a memory than something made 
up in your mind. It's like the story has already happened and you're just 
writing it down. My dreams are almost like a trip to the zoo on acid."

Bronwen's second novel is 'Nightswallow', a more mainstream horror story which 
deals with the eventuality of death and also love. She is currently working on 
her third novel, an Edinburgh crime thriller entitled Grassmarket Blood.