April 5, 2021
Moonchild Post One
Week 14, Day 1 – Moonchild
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Cover Design: Kate L. Mary
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In a world fueled by greed and corruption, where airships rule the skies and coal mines have been turned into prisons, Scarlett Moon has one goal: survive. Being tough and looking out for herself is the only way to stay alive, but when her best friend, Rory, is arrested and returned to the mines, all of Scarlett’s carefully built walls threaten to crumble.
After being rescued by an airship full of pirates, led by the sexy and irresistible Asher Kimura, Scarlett finds herself surrounded by cons and fugitives, and thrust into the middle of a coal-smuggling business. When they take her to Columbus, the one place she never wanted to set foot in again, she wants nothing more than to get away. And her discomfort only grows as she becomes increasingly drawn to Asher.
But everything changes when she discovers there may be a way to rescue Rory. Enlisting the pirates’ help, Scarlett sets out on a mission to save her friend, praying that her overwhelming attraction to Asher doesn’t mean the end to her freedom – in more ways than one.
What was it like to write and publish Moonchild?
Moonchild is another one of those books that I wrote all the way back in 2012-2013. I’m not exactly sure when since it’s been so long ago now. While the first draft of this novel wasn’t much different than the current one, it did go through a lot of revisions between then and when I finally released it in 2016. I had beta readers and critique partners who went through it, as well as an agent.
It’s crazy to think that I sat on this book for so many years before putting it out, but I did. I was actively looking for an agent when I first wrote it, then I got an agent and she was focused on my new adult romance series, which was why I kept it to myself. It was a while before I finally submitted Moonchild to my agent, but no surprise that she absolutely loved it. After she read it, we started submitting it to editors in the hopes that I’d be able to snag a book deal, but while we had a lot of people request to read it, it never really went anywhere. For a year it collected dust while we waited for someone to get around to reading the full manuscript they requested. I worked on other things, growing more and more frustrated but the lack of progress, then finally gave up and decided to put it out on my own. Once I decided to do that, things went fast since I’d already created a cover and I had an editor who didn’t have a huge client list – the same editor who worked with the small press that dropped Collision and Broken World.
While I loved that first cover I created, it was simplistic and didn’t really tell anyone what the book was about, so it wasn’t long before I updated it just a little – right around the time the second book was released. It wasn’t until after learning to use Photoshop that I updated Moonchild to the current cover, though. I’m self taught after taking a week off from writing in the spring of 2018 and watching dozens of tutorials and playing around with Photoshop until I felt comfortable using it, and I wanted to take that newfound knowledge and create a cover that really fit Moonchild. I absolutely adore the new covers, and I’m so glad I took the time to update them!
