O Miss Margaret! Where have you gone? I’m singing your song!

Spring has come again, and with it, my band, Ghost of a Girl, brings you our debut self-titled album, alongside our first music video…

Ghost of a Girl is now available on all streaming platforms!

The Ghost of a Girl album is incredibly personal to me. Co-writing with my partner, Eric, was medicine that came right at the time I needed it most. Not only did our Caesar-infused songwriting sessions bring music back into my life after a three-year hiatus, but the lyrics quickly became a safe space to express the challenges I was going through at the time…

I don’t write anymore

Too busy crying

I wear a false smile

My plants keep dying

Without them I’m left wondering

When will Spring come again?

2023 was not my year. A good year on paper, yes. But behind my ‘false smile’, I was struggling. Fortunately, the first line of the song Over the Moon is inaccurate. I never stopped writing, not entirely. I had, however, stopped writing The Sun and Moon Saga. Why? Because I had developed this limiting belief that it wouldn’t be ‘successful’ and that I should write ‘safer’, ‘more marketable’ books.

What was worse was how I developed the limiting belief that only extrinsic success can justify the creative act. I had internalised our culture’s ideas of ‘success’ and had fallen out of alignment with my own value system.

Music was just the medicine I needed, because I had returned to it from a place of intrinsic motivation. I wasn’t looking to ‘get’ anything out of writing this album. I was simply expressing myself and having fun.

We wrote song after song, and by and by, a story sprouted in the lyrics: The Haunting of Miss Margaret. This dark but whimsical fairy tale was the fable my soul needed, one that warns against being swept up by the values of late-stage capitalism and the narcissism it encourages, and implores that you stay in touch with your authentic self, with what brings you true joy.

My hope in sharing this work with the world is that it reacquaints someone with their inner child, just as writing it did for me.

Sincerely,

MD Luna

Happy belated Valentine’s Day!

The footage in this vlog was taken throughout January as I drafted a short story from the perspective of Zale during the time of ii: The Rebel Coven…

I don’t actually write ‘romantasy’. It’s clickbait. I write high epic fantasy. The Sun and Moon Saga is high epic fantasy. That said, I ADORE a romantic subplot, don’t you?

I just prefer the romance to take a backseat to the adventure and the mystery, at least most of the time. The books in TSAMS are high epic fantasy with romantic subplots. In IV: Aurora and Luna, there is a love triangle. Aurora has two potential love interests. One of them, she meets at the end of i: The Misfit Princess, and their relationship develops throughout the course of ii: The Rebel Coven. The other, she meets in iii: The Near Impossible Quest, which comes out this Spring!

I may not be writing ‘romantasy’, but I did listen to my inner teenager when I was crafting these characters and their relationships with Aurora. If you love a love triangle that’s woven into an epic fantasy adventure, then you are going to love The Near Impossible Quest! Be sure to get caught up on TSAMS now so you’re all ready to embark on the quest come Springtime…

Sincerely,

MD Luna

At the dawn of 2024, I decided to start drawing (somewhat) regularly. For many Moons I simply messed about in my sketchbook, and the only intention was to enjoy a creative act.

However, by the last quarter of the Solar cycle, my childhood dream of being my own illustrator had resurfaced—and I have been drawing concept art for The Sun and Moon Saga ever since!

I hope you find inspiration in my story and take up some new creative pursuit. Let’s normalise learning new skills in adulthood; life doesn’t end at age twenty-five.

Sincerely,

MD Luna