Bios

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Behind Allyson Roy is . . . Alice & Roy, husband and wife collaborating authors. We spent many gypsy years living and working in the different neighborhoods of New York City and Philadelphia.

Roy

Having grown up in the burbs, I never discovered who I was or found my real confidence until I moved into the dark and dirty bowels of the city at age twenty. My inspirations are derived from years of coming into contact with a wide range of people, some being total whackos, set against offbeat locations embedded within Manhattan, Brooklyn and Philadelphia.

A graduate of the University Of The Arts in Philadelphia, my interests include film, politics, boxing and talking to my old tomcat, Wallace. After studying acting and performing in theater, I branched out into doing stand-up routines in comedy and nightclubs. When the pickings were slim I'd enjoy crashing into dive bars and offering my services by doing impromptu performances for drunk and unsuspecting customers. Try that one on for easy . . . not. Believe me, I know what it feels like to bomb as well as hit it out of the park.

Guess you could say I’m a crude inventor who enjoys attacking a blank computer screen. I really love the challenge of creating a wild premise and figuring out what could happen next in a story. And since Alice and I are both performer type personalities, there are naturally plenty of theatrics both on and off the page.

Alice

I have a degree from the State University of New York with a double major in philosophy and dance. My love for those two subjects reminds me of why I'm attracted to mystery/suspense with romantic elements. The genre blends elements of each, combining problem-solving questions and logic puzzles with a desire for physical action, sensuality and the creative possibilities that can happen when individuals meet.

For most of my adult life I have been a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. I was also lucky enough to have parents who loved books. I grew up reading everything and anything (including the books they didn't want me to read). And I still do, whether it's the history of world cultures, the migration of monarch butterflies, Charles Dickens, Jhumpa Lahiri or my numerous favorite mystery/suspense, romance and fantasy authors.

Alice and Roy are members of :

Mystery Writers of America

International Thriller Writers

Romance Writers of America

Sisters In Crime

Backspace Writers Forum