Designer, Art Director, and Writer
Based in Oregon, US
Kira earned her BFA in Communication Design from the University of North Texas, before going on to work as a graphic designer and art director. She is currently enrolled in a creative writing class while doing freelance design.
Some of her favorite TV shows include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Game of Thrones, Dark, and Madmen. In adult fiction and fantasy, her favorite books include Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Masters of Death by Olivie Blake, and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.
Her design portfolio can be found at kirabruner.net, and information about her completed manuscripts can be found below. To contact Kira, please use the contact form linked at the bottom of the page.
Small Things– Adult Fantasy
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Mystery / Romance
– Grimm Retelling
– Magical Realism
– Gen-Z and Millenial Audience
– Mid-twenties Protaganist
Excerpt from Chapter 7
“She should quit her job, run far away from this house, and leave all of Sulli’s family drama and his weird, serial killer-like hobbies behind, but she wasn’t going to do any of that, because if Sulli’s books were his obsession, he was hers.”
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Nora and the Nightmare King– Middle Grade
– Fantasy / Mystery
– School Setting
– Found Family
– Learning Self-acceptance
– Facing Loss and Grief
– Complicated Family Dynamics
Excerpts from Chapters 1 & 13
“Nora Night was a moody, rebellious, and outspoken girl, among many other things, and it was because of this that she found herself in the backseat of a lumbering black taxi cab headed for the mysterious Maragret Meadowsweet’s Moderate School for Troubled Youth.”
“No one ever has cancer in fantasy novels. They have to fight monsters, and trick wicked witches, and learn to ride dragons, and maybe even heal a flesh wound or two, but they never get sick. They never just…fade away. When they die, they die as heroes in some mighty battle. They don’t die slowly, painfully, curled up on a hospital bed.”
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Familiar Ground– Epic Fantasy
– Multiple POV
– LGBTQ+ Representation
– Witches and Familiars
Excerpt from Chapter 2
“It was autumn and the snow had not yet begun to fall. She longed for the winter, for the quiet snowy nights, spiked apple cider garnished with cloves and cinnamon sticks, and for the scary stories that were often shared around the warmth of a roaring fire.”
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