Austin author FarOutBlackGirl’s debut pits Black and queer characters against the apocalypse.
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fan fiction and short stories,"never anything where I was like, 'I would show someone this.'" But working from home in the pandemic gave her time to start writing what would become her debut novel. Now, three years on, it's finally published."You're like, 'Crap, I can't believe this is finally over,' because I did so much work. It's crazy to think that someone would actually want to read something I've written.
As she wrote and tried not to go stir-crazy in her house, Moore said her own interest carried her through the writing process."I can see where a lot of writers fall off. They're like, 'Oh, I'm really obsessed with this,' then two, three chapters in and you're like, 'Well damn. I got so much more work to do.' But there was never a moment like that with this."
Despite growing up in the early 2000s renaissance of lesbian novels, as an undergraduate at the University of Richmond she found their library collection left a lot to be desired in terms of diverse and uplifting reads – a gap she hopes to fill with. "There is a lot of color, a lot of queerness. I wanted to write a world in a story in which that was the norm," Moore says.
Many of Moore's friends asked if she based those characters off of them. Moore says she used pieces of each of her friends to create characters that would resonate with readers. "If I were to make the easy choice and have them be based on these stereotypes, I feel like you lose a lot of that desire to further get to know them." Instead, she wants readers to say,"'That's my person right there. I can see a little bit of myself in that character.
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