Book interview - Moonlight Beach by Yurie Kiri
Please tell us a little about the book
Yurie Kiri’s novel Moonlight Beach won the 2020
Hollywood Book Festival’s award for Genre Fiction. Moonlight Beach is about four friends who
contact the spirit of dead Native American woman and have to fight for their lives
against the serial killer who had been chasing her. The second book in the series, where two of
the surviving women of Rancho California take a trip to New Mexico, is called
Moonlight Canyon. The third book, called
Moonlight Rocks is about a battle over a meteorite that may herald the birth of a new Messiah. Besides the Moonlight series, Yurie Kiri has also
written a series of books about Japan and virtual reality games; the first book
is called Tokyo Games. All of these
books along with a 3 book box set for the Moonlight series are available on
Amazon.
Synopsis: Moonlight Beach near the rich and sleepy town of Rancho California has been the scene of a series of either brutal murders or shark attacks. One night, two more people are murdered on a cliff overlooking the beach and now organs are missing, organs that could have been used in a transplant operation to save a person’s life. Was it another random killing, murder for hire or an attempt to extract a much-needed organ? Would someone really sacrifice a stranger’s life to give a loved one another chance at life? Rancho California’s leading venture capitalists want to start a company that provides human organs to people in need of transplants; could one of them be responsible? Then there’s a local group of witches who’ve seen and done a lot of strange things, first hand. What role do they play? Victims or perpetrators?
Where did the inspiration come from for your book?
(From the Author's note) Please don’t think that this
strange story about a series of murders, organ donors, witchcraft and sex
sprang from my feverish brain all on its own.
I have a good imagination, but it’s not that good. The truth is, one night a few years back, I
was sitting in Bolero’s, a Rancho California, patio-style Mexican Restaurant,
nursing a margarita and waiting for an expensive Carne Asada taco plate when
two women came in and sat down at a nearby outdoor table.
I don’t
usually eavesdrop on other people’s conversations, but it was a slow night at
Bolero’s and something about these women grabbed my attention and made me turn
my head slightly so that I could hear them better. I think that the part of the women’s
conversation that really made me sit up went something like this, “You were a
close friend of hers, weren’t you? Tell
me how she really died. No one deserved
to be killed like what I heard...”
As you
can imagine, I took my time with my food and margarita, all the while straining
to hear and remember exactly what they said.
Like I often do, I took a few notes on napkins and scraps of paper as
discretely as possible. However, the
women decided to move on, before the story was finished, since one of them had
promised to meet another friend at Jake’s by the beach. I sadly watched them go but finished up and
paid my bill as quickly as possible then I arranged my notes and filled in some
of the blanks with what I could best remember.
How did you find the experience of writing this book?
It's addictive, like a dangerous drug and it lets me create a world where victims of violence can get some justice.
Did you draw any inspiration from any real life people with any of your characters?
Most (if not all) of the characters are derived from real life
people, however I know that at least some of them can't recognize themselves...
even after reading their parts. Just
proves my theory that no one can see themself as others do... However, please note my
books are works of fiction. Names,
characters, people, places and incidents either are the product of the my
imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, business establishments, schools, hospitals, churches, prisons,
government facilities, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
If you could say anything to readers of this book then what would it be?
Please enjoy! I hope reading
(or listening to the planned audio books) is as much fun as writing.
Are there plans for more from these characters, or is it a stand alone piece?
Moonlight Canyon has a couple of the characters from Moonlight
Beach and adds in several new, exciting characters. I plan on releasing another book based upon
what happened after Moonlight Beach along with a follow on to Moonlight Canyon
containing some of the characters from Moonlight Rocks (which mentions
Moonlight Beach but has mostly new characters).
Later on, I plan to release a book that combines the surviving
characters from Moonlight Beach, Moonlight Canyon and Moonlight Rocks...
whether or not that is the last of the Moonlight Series, has not yet been
determined.
The characters from Tokyo Games are central to the next book in the series called Osaka Games which will be released soon. There are several other books planned in the Games series, all built around the same main characters some of whom get transformed in interesting ways...
Where can we buy your book?
Please tell us where readers can connect with you and find out about any new book releases too.
My
website - www.yuriekiri.com, or twitter - https://twitter.com/yuriekiri
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