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Episode 205: Interview with Moriah Chavis

Bethany Stedman

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Ep 205: Interview with Moriah Chavis Fable & The Verbivore

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Today on Fable and the Verbivore, we’re sharing our latest interview with writer and librarian Moriah Chavis. 

Moriah is an active and supportive member of the Instagram writing community. We connected with her on social media, due to her hilarious reels about the writing life and beautiful aesthetics. Her short story “Tail of Hope” has been featured by Havok Publishing and several short stories have been selected to be published within Twenty Hills anthologies. Her debut novel Heart of the Sea (HOTS) was released on August 2nd, 2023. You can connect with Moriah on Instagram at @moriah.chavis and on her etsy shop at MoriahChavisAuthor.

The elevator pitch for her magical pirate adventure story HOTS is: Nerisa Elliot’s sister was taken by a darkness that’s trying to take over all five kingdoms. In order to save her, she has to steal the fastest ship in Easterly that’s captained by Cyrus Crow, but Cyrus has been ordered to kill her in order to gain his freedom from a malicious queen.

Moriah’s also working on a collection of short stories focused on a FMC in the late 19th Century London who has the ability to see ghosts and goes on a journey of self-discovery while solving supernatural crimes. This project is being published through Twenty Hills Publishing and is expected in 2024.

Throughout this episode, Moriah digs into many different aspects of her writing life. Things like what she’s learned from growing her writing community, using Instagram to grow an audience and market her work, navigating the writing process from start to finish, querying her work to agents and publishers, and advice for not letting all the NOs steal your enjoyment of your work.

She also touches on her second career as a librarian, and how her love of story and belief that there is a book out there for everyone has informed how she approaches supporting other writers and their work.

We hope you enjoy this episode! It was such an encouraging conversation chock full of great advice, and focused firmly on finding joy within the work and remembering to look for the light. It was truly a pleasure to get to be a part of it.

Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

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Notes:

Moriah is an active and supportive member of the Instagram writing community. We connected with her on social media, due to her hilarious reels about the writing life and beautiful aesthetics. Her short story “Tail of Hope” has been featured by Havok Publishing and several short stories have been selected to be published within Twenty Hills anthologies. Her debut novel Heart of the Sea (HOTS) was released on August 2nd, 2023.

The elevator pitch for her magical pirate adventure story HOTS is: Nerisa Elliot’s sister was taken by a darkness that’s trying to take over all five kingdoms. In order to save her, she has to steal the fastest ship in Easterly that’s captained by Cyrus Crow, but Cyrus has been ordered to kill her in order to gain his freedom from a malicious queen.

Moriah’s also working on a collection of short stories focused on a FMC in the late 19th Century London who has the ability to see ghosts and goes on a journey of self-discovery while solving supernatural crimes. This project is being published through Twenty Hills Publishing and is expected in 2024.

You can connect with Moriah on Instagram at @moriah.chavis and on her etsy shop at MoriahChavisAuthor.

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Music from: https://filmmusic.io
‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)