April 6, 2021
Moonchild Post Two
Week 14, Day 2 – 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.
Where did you get the idea for Moonchild?
Crazily enough, I got the idea for Moonchild while searching for an agent. I’d written a couple dystopian books – which were going nowhere – Collision – which was contemporary – and some of the Broken World books and Alone – which agents said had no future because there was no market for zombie books. I was frustrated and wanting to write something that would really stand out with agents and editors, so I researched what agents were looking for. I remember reading that one wanted more steampunk, but I had no clue what that genre was. After researching it, I thought it sounded really cool. The only problem was that I enjoyed writing more about the future – specifically post-apocalyptic worlds – than the past, which was how I came up with the idea of writing a futuristic steampunk set in a post-apocalyptic world. I wanted it to have a very comic book feel to it, though, and while I was writing it, my mind constantly went to the show Firefly. I loved how it was futuristic – a group flying from terraformed planet to terraformed planet in another galaxy after Earth has gone to waste – but that it also had a very Wild West feel to it as well. It was like going into the future to get to the past, and that was what I was striving for when I created the Moonchild universe.
