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Who is Lilye Kerryna

November 25, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

If pressed to tell you about herself, Lilye Kerryna would likely shrug and mumble something about cats, books, and coffee. Born in Texas with perpetually ink-stained fingers, she has always had a deep love for reading and writing. Wishing to create the books she always wanted to read, she has been crafting words into her own adult fantasy and scifi universes for over a decades.

Lilye is the author of the romance Touched by Death. She loves Greek mythology and is currently working on book two of the series. 

Check out Touched by Death on Amazon!

 

 

 

Death is usually the end of a story, but for Dinah it is only the beginning. When Dinah dies in a car accident, her faith in the Greek gods of myths brings her to the Underworld. She faces judgement and discovers she died before she was fated to, leaving the judges uncertain and unable to reach a decision. Hades, the God of the Underworld, offers her a chance to impress them and earn a place in the underworld. As a romantic, Dinah is drawn to the story of Persephone and Hades and wholeheartedly believes it to be one of true love. When she learns that Persephone is missing she decides she will try her best to find the Goddess, hoping that a mortal’s perspective might be enough to uncover a lead the gods had failed to notice. Complications arise as she finds herself falling in love with the missing goddess’ husband. Convinced he still loves Persephone, she struggles to keep her feelings from interfering with her mission. She must also learn the ins and outs of palace life and find allies to aid her – all while coping with the loss of her life and soul-threatening dangers in her path.

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Meet the Staff: NAni

September 16, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

NAni is a Jr. Artist for Moirae Publishing. They are a self-taught artist with an associates in graphic design. They are androgynous and go by they/them. Their hobbies and interests center mostly around art, with a focus on demonology and angelology. Currently NAni is working on a comic about angels and demons that they hope to publish soon, though they haven’t chosen what platform to do so on.

They draw much of their inspiration and art style from anime and manga, specifically Black Cat, Shaman King, and Air Gear. The artist Oh! great made them want to become a comic artist. Oh! great’s poses and anatomy have been incredibly inspirational and tend to show up in NAni’s sketches. 

NAni considers their greatest achievement to be the production of nearly 300 pages for their comic. 

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Meet the Staff: Adele Owen

August 19, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

Adele Owen is the Sr. Editor for Moirae Publishing, who also writes articles for Yatta-Tachi and is working on multiple manuscripts of her own. She has also published an interview with Thomas Astruc, the writer of Miraculous Ladybug.

She is still proud of her Girl Scout Gold award, and the fact that she participates in NANOWRIMO every year. She studied at the University of North Texas for a degree in English before switching to Southern New Hampshire University to major in creative writing.

She loves anime, reading, and her cat. Her favorite genre to read is fantasy, with a splash of young adult romance. 

She can be found on Tumblr, posting writing prompts, and Twitter. 

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Meet the Staff: Clockwork Joker

August 12, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

Clockwork Joker is the Lead Art Director at Moirae Publishing. She is a self-taught artist who believes in trying to learn something new every day. Her top three favorite things are: art, dark humor, and video games. She draws much of her artistic inspiration from video games, anime, art podcasts, and other artists like Shilin Huang and Ross Tran. 

She moved to North Alabama in 2017 in order to expand her artistic influences, experience, and opportunities. She is attending school for a degree in Marketing and is looking forward to putting that to use in expanding her role at Moirae Publishing. Her focuses in the company are currently: creating book covers, advising junior artists on the team, and advertising on Facebook and Twitter. 

She is most often found on Facebook or Twitter, watching videos of animals doing hilariously dumb things. 

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Meet the Staff: K. E. Ireland

August 5, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

K. E. Ireland is a writer, but also the Managing Director of Moirae Publishing. She created the company with Clockwork Joker and Lilye Kerryna in order to bring to life more books they were interested in reading. 

She went to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, graduated with a Bachelors in Technical Communications, and has independently published three books in her young adult scifi series; The Natan Fleet Show. She has further books in the series planned, as well as multiple other projects unrelated to the struggles and plight of Vathion Gannatet. One of her projects is Danger Around Mount Pallin; a Webtoon she is writing the script for, Clockwork Joker is in charge of art, and Dance of Thorns is in charge of coloring. 

Ireland has several loves, including her cats, her house, and her quiet time. Often times she can be found asleep, covered in cats, or on Tumblr, covered in cats. On occasion, Ireland can be convinced to draw sketches of things, but her passion is writing first and foremost when it comes to expressing herself creatively.

She has chosen to re-publish her existing books under the Moirae Publishing name, and is on the look-out for other interesting stories that might be passed up by larger brands.

Her personal website is www.keireland.com, and while she has a Twitter and Facebook account, she’d rather be reblogging cat pics on her Tumblr. 

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Meet J. D. Huffman! Author of Totality: The Militiaman

April 20, 2018 By kireland Leave a Comment

Welcome to Moirae Publishing! This will be one of many author interviews we do for the blog. Today we have our first author signed with our company. 

So answer a few questions for us!

Who are you and what do you write?

I’m J.D. Huffman, although my friends call me “James” or “Jimmy.” I write all kinds of things–novels, short stories, poetry, essays, code. But I assume you want to know what I’m writing for Moirae, and at the moment that is my science fiction (and fantasy, sort of) novel series called Totality.

What drew you to write this genre?

Easy answer: Star Trek. The Next Generation was on when I was a kid and it pulled me in. Really opened up my imagination and never stopped. I love science fiction because it tantalizes us with what’s possible, warns us of what to avoid, and finds humanity in the most outlandish settings.

What is your day job?

I’m a software engineer who works on pharmacy software. Definitely not science fiction.

How does your day job influence your writing (characters, settings, plot)?

When it comes to Totality, very little. That said, one day I may write a book or two based on my experiences in the software industry. It’s full of colorful characters, high stakes, and gripping drama. If you don’t believe me, go watch Halt and Catch Fire.

What do you want to achieve with your books?

First and foremost, I want people to have a good time. Following these characters on their respective journeys should be engaging and entertaining. If it’s not, I’ve failed as a writer.

But I also wrestle with a lot of complex topics and I hope I get readers to think about them, too. I tend not to go for blatant political allegory, but rather universal questions and dilemmas. What makes somebody a good person or a bad one? What is the proper role of authority? What does a good government look like? What kind of future do we really want for ourselves? How much of our lives is under our control, and how much is random chance, or fate?

I want the series to feel like more than the sum of its parts. It’s sprawling and complicated but I do my best to keep it accessible to everyone, too. I’m not a rivet-counting, militant hard-SF writer. Nothing wrong with them and they have their place, I just find other aspects of humanity’s future and our potential more compelling.

What was the defining moment in your life that made you want to write books and get them published?

That’s a tough one. I don’t think there was any specific moment. It’s a desire that built up over a long period of time. I’ve been writing stories since I was a little kid, and sharing them with others has always been part of it. Getting to this point has been a natural progression more than the result of a specific epiphany, I think.

What’s your current project about?

At the core, Totality is about people flung away from their home and forced to grapple with forces they don’t understand. They have to make tough decisions, and don’t always make the right ones.

The first book, The Militiaman, kind of sets the stage for the rest. A very frequent theme is the clash of ideals with reality. Everybody has their own idea of how things ought to be. Even with a clear notion of what you want, even with tremendous power to make that vision a reality–how much of it can you really achieve? How far do good intentions get you?

The main character, William Pearson, is a cop out to achieve his version of justice. There are a lot of things wrong in his world and he wants to make them right, one way or another. But reality is less willing to bend to his black-and-white conception of the universe he inhabits. A lot of stories about this type of character end up being power fantasies–you end with all the enemies dead and this grand vision of justice accomplished, justifying the means. Totality is… definitely not that kind of story.

Are there any themes you want to explore in future projects?

A ton! Totality covers a lot of ground but tends to be about fairly specific things, thematically.

Other themes I want to grapple with in future works would involve artificial intelligence, government surveillance, ancient history, medical ethics–the list goes on.

What other projects do you have in the works?

I have some other novels I’ve written that need some work before they are ready for the public. There’s one about human cloning, another that’s a series of parallel stories that are thematically (and narratively) linked, the first novel in a weird series about the end of the world, and the first book in another series that’s a space opera about a time traveling cyborg. That’s just counting the ones where I’ve actually written a novel. I have a long list of other projects in various states of development. For the moment, I’m focused on Totality, but once that series is in the bag I’ll probably jump to one of the others. If I keep doing one novel a year like I am now, I’ll be busy for, uh, the next twenty years or so. And that’s only if I don’t think up anything new in the meantime.

Have you published anything previously?

Not fiction, but I have published nonfiction articles before.

I also have a blog where I’ve posted hundreds of articles, but I don’t know if you would count that.

What do you find the most difficult in writing?

Keeping the details straight in a very complex storyline. Who knows which things, where they are, what’s motivating them in a specific moment, and so on.

Why do you find this part the most difficult?

It’s just a lot of little facts to keep track of. I put together systems to help me organize it, but I’ll probably end up writing a program, like I usually do for difficult problems.

What’s your secret to getting books done?

Consistency! When I’m working on a novel, I set aside time for it at least every weekday. I have an outline to guide me and a word count to target. Planning beforehand, blocking out time, and keeping a consistent pace ensure things move forward from start to finish. I’m not saying it’s always easy–there are days I just don’t want to do it. But I do it anyway. Making it a habit is essential. Once you get used to it, you can keep doing it, over and over, day after day, start to finish. And it feels great!


Stay tuned to Moirae Publishing to see the book when it comes out! Totality: The Militiaman is sure to be a fun ride!

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