It all started when she received that first picture book during her diaper days. Naya Zayn, aka NZ, has binged on stories since then.<br><br>As a consummate daydreamer, she spends many hours exploring the horizons of her own mindscape — lurking around terrains flush with gay romance and happy endings.<br><br>There, she embraces the gripping elements of scifi and fantasy, then ventures into darker outskirts where many rogues and anti-heroes reside.<br><br>Though troubled, her morally grey men pine hopelessly and flirt shamelessly. They're also persistent, haunting her in the waking world, till she finally puts pen to paper… bringing them alive.<br><br>Her debut Synthetic Code for Sincerity is set to release in May 2023.