Beginnings
Hey y’all! I’m Alan. I was born in Lexington, Kentucky. I spent a lot of my childhood and teen years with extended family in Breathitt County, Kentucky.
As a teen, I discovered my love of the written word, reading such greats as Stephen King, Anne Rice, and F. Paul Wilson. My favorite fiction is mostly paranormal, horror, thriller, or mystery. (Does that cover everything? No, not really.) King’s Night Shift is one of my favorite anthologies. Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, and Wilson’s The Adversary Cycle, are favorite series’ that I’ve read over and over.
I also spent a lot of time in the library as a teen researching world religions and lesser-known (at the time) forms of spirituality (such as Wicca, and other forms of Paganism). I also delved into the New Age for a bit. Some of my favorite non-fiction includes Going Within, by Shirley MacLaine, The New Pagans, by Hans Holzer, The Goddess Reawakening, by Shirley Nicholson, Women Who Run With The Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, by Debbie Ford.
Early Writing
My early writing work began where a lot of peoples’ writing begins. While I found love for the written word early on, and devoured as much as I could, the writing bug really only bit me in my Freshman year of high school.
At some point, there was an assignment to write a vignette. (Side note: a “vignette” is a short piece of writing that focuses on a single moment in time, or single scene, focusing on a single character, setting or mood. Often, a vignette doesn’t even move a story along, and can generally remain a piece of short stand-alone writing.) I wrote two: (1) a story about a girl who committed suicide by burning herself alive in her parents car; and (2) a story about a young man who was being stalked by a vampire; this one focused on the moment of his being turned.
When I turned in the first story (title unknown now), my teacher said, “Dead people don’t talk, redo the assignment.” It was less than a week later I was called to the Guidance Counselor’s office – she was worried I might be suicidal. (I would become suicidal, yes, but that was still at least another year away. I’m not anymore.)
So I turned in the second piece (called Becoming), and it was published in the school’s literary journal. (I’ve still got a copy of the edition that my vignette was published in, but it’s somewhere in the basement, likely to never see the light of day again.)
Current Work
In 2016, I self-published my first completed written work called The Spell In My Pocket. It’s a short, matter-of-fact read that delves into a very specific practice of Appalachian folk magic. It talks about where, and from whom, I learned the practice, and includes a ritual of my own creation that imbues magical amulets and talismans with life and purpose. (No, you don’t just have to use it for the objects in the book – use it for other stuff, too, and let me know how it goes!)
I’ve also had several other projects over the years, including online courses on Shamanic journeying, and development of the intuition (both courses are no longer in circulation).
I’m currently focusing on short fiction, but I’m also in the planning stages of other projects that may be revealed in the future.
Press Biography
Alan Fuller was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1977, the only son of Stanley Eugene (“Gene”) and Melda K Cundiff Fuller. He self-published his first professional non-fiction book in 2016 on Amazon’s Kindle, and later released it as a paperback, as well. After high school graduation in 1995, he entered the workforce wrapping meats at a local family-owned grocery store called Super Saver (no longer in existence). Writing in several journals and notebooks over the years, there is a plethora of unpublished material. Since self-publishing his first full book in 2016, he’s been working on several incomplete pieces off and on. He has since decided to begin working on mostly fiction short stories.
Alan lives in Kentucky, with his life partner and their two cats, Gerty and Cathy.
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