#also I've decided to do teams of fewer than 6 sometimes

[acertainmoshke]

Meet the author

🍁 Hi, I'm Moshke Palmoni, and I'm on my way to self publishing my first book

🍁 My pronouns are (currently) they/them

🍁 I live by the seaside with my partner ("Selkie") and our weird cat

🍁 I basically live to read and write, but I probably do 70% more planning new stories than actually writing them

🍁 As my pen name should imply, I am Jewish and the OTHER thing I basically live for is deeply philosophical debates in shul about minor details of the Talmud or Torah

🍁 When I'm not reading or writing, I like to swim or knit. I'm hoping to learn to crochet soon

🍁 I do have a day job that unfortunately cuts into my writing time even though it's a career I care deeply about

🍁 My degree was in archeology, and though it is not my day job I enjoy learning about culture and language

My Current Projects

✏️ Fae and Brownie (complete at ~21k): Fae is an imaginative and well-read 10-year-old disabled autistic girl growing up with her mom, nonbinary parent, and sister. She is an outcast who finds relief in her pretend games of magic and in books she reads. Her life changes very suddenly with a new kid at school and her aunt moving in with her family. At first it seems like only one of those changes is any good - Aunt Lilian doesn't seem to understand anything about how Fae communicates or lives. Over the next week, with the help of her new friend Brownie, she learns about ways to accommodate her needs, and that sometimes changes lead to nice things. (It's complete but I still need to hire people for the cover and illustrations, it's been edited but I'd like a beta reader or two, and then I have to figure out how to hype it up before actually publishing. I'm hoping for sometime this year).

✏️ To Die Among the Stars (WIP at ~35k of 100-150k). In the semi distant future, things are...actually, much as they've always been, only with cooler tech and fewer forests. A decade after the first disastrous manned FTL flight, the government's scientists are ready to try again, aiming for a distant exoplanet that should be able to support life. But this time they're ready for failure; the only people on board are those no one would miss or whose loved ones don't have the power to protest. It's legal if they volunteered. What the passengers are told is that they will have to record their experiences and bio data to send home. What they aren't told is their mission was never meant to succeed. They aren't trained for this or expected to amount to much, but they're determined to survive - more than that, they're determined that all of them survive.

✏️ Timekeepers. Still in the planning and research stage. In the semi distant future, things are much improved. There is no police force or political borders. And an experimental time travel program has allowed for all sorts of new academic studies. Esther Dahan is an anthropologist on one of the new time traveling teams. Her specialties are languages and home life, but each team member studies something related but different. It will be a series following her over years, as her team discovers a nefarious force following them through time, but that requires me to actually research properly the eras and locations I want to use and that might be a while.

✏️ Halara. Currently a universe without a plot. I have a kingdom, a magic system, politics, a working language, and 500 years of social change and royal family, but haven't yet decided how to tell their stories. Eventually I will probably follow a handful of the rules through the generations. Oh, and they have 6 standard cultural genders not built around biology.

✏️ Halfling. My oldest idea, the basics dating back to high school, but unrecognizable from my early writings. Also more an idea than anything - I've started and given up writing it so many times. Shakatra Zoawin is half Fae and half human. Stronger than any human sorcerer and excellent at glamour, they are seen as a threat by most people, yet are too moral and emotional to fit in among the cold and controlling Fae. They have mostly been isolated, growing up on the streets and fighting the Wild Fae that pose a threat to nearby humans, with only their adopted brother--ironically a Wild Fae himself--for companionship. They fell in love once but renounced that idea again after it ended in tragedy. Things begin to change the year they turn 100--though they still appear to be in their early 30's. They meet Lynn Kanin, like no one they've ever come across, though she is fully human and not even magic. Their meeting has unintended consequences that mean the world might fall, or life might actually turn out alright for the outcasts.

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The Handyman Your Mom Hired To Fix The Place Up, But Now You Think They Might Be Dating, And While He Seems Nice Enough, You're Still Not Over Your Dad's Death A Few Years Ago (multi gen)