The World of the Fae Interview with Liz Cain

1) Tell us about your Fae characters.
My fae characters are fairytale inspired, loosely following the story of Rumpelstiltskin. The main character Rumpel is a female elderfae who is in love with a human. The elderfae are rumored to steal away young girls and children, trading for bargains and favors. To know the true name of an elderfae is to have them under your control, so no one except the mother of an elderfae knows their true name. 
2) Do they have any unique powers?
By bargaining with humans an elderfae can increase their powers which are based on will. They can imagine what they want their power to do and it will but the more the bargain with humans the stronger their power is
3) Seelie or unseelie?
This concept does not come into these stories – so neither
4) What is your favorite Fae story or legend?
That fae cannot lie and stories of fae changelings. The tale of Rumpelstiltskin involves bargaining for the future queen’s oldest child. I wove this concept into my story with a jarring twist on the original fairytale and combined this with fae legends – making deals with the fae, knowing their true name and the fae living in another realm.

Liz Cain is an urban fantasy writer and NHS frontline staff. She was born in East Yorkshire in the UK and grew up near the sea with her parents and two sisters. She moved to the midlands, which was much too far south for her, graduating from Leicester University with a degree in Physics and going on to complete an MSc in Medical and Radiation Physics. She has worked in the NHS since 2008 as a Nuclear Medicine Clinical Scientist, helping with cancer treatment and diagnosis.

Liz has loved reading her whole life, growing up with Anne McCaffrey, Mary Stewart, and Terry Goodkind. Becoming an author happened by chance when she jumped at the opportunity to help a friend tell a story that deserved to be told. It inspired her to follow her lifelong dream and now she has published books with her coauthor Anne K. Whelan in the fantasy romance and paranormal romance genre, finally taking that last step and publishing by herself in 2023.   While working she finds herself weaving intricate tales in her head which one day she had to write down.

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