the author
Saphina Moon
Dark Romance
Romantasy
BDSM
Why Choose
Saphina Moon is a Gen X reject, thriving on chaos and coffee (sadly sans caffeine nowadays, to avoid requiring Tena Ladies).
Having grown up in a less than safe and thriving environment which, unsurprisingly, continued into adulthood, probable undiagnosed AuDHD, and BPD, she developed a plethora of unhealthy coping mechanisms.
Dark romance, romantasy, why choose, BDSM — enters the chat.
As a teenager, writing helped with hormonal shifts, but ceased after leaving boarding school and returning home, because — you know — “writing isn’t a real job.”
Becoming a parent at 18 put a stopper to most things, but two children and a lifetime of single parenthood didn’t stop a career in nursing, with a degree in “archaeology and landscape history” and a Masters in “Writing for Performance.”
In 2015, after a stint working as a nurse on cruise ships, a lack of a better idea made her write her first novel, which remains unpublished. Ten years of writing groups where everything had to be PG — as she was the youngest member, in her 40s — and she is now channelling her inner demons, letting the beast out to be as raunchy and depraved as she can possibly muster.
Long may it last.
the long way round
How she got here
A life lived first, and a pen picked back up later.
Teenage years
Writing became an outlet for hormonal shifts and everything else — until leaving boarding school put a stop to it. “Writing isn’t a real job,” after all.
Age 18
Motherhood, early and fast
Becoming a parent at 18 reshaped everything. Two children and a lifetime of single parenthood followed — alongside a career that had nothing to do with fiction.
Career years
Nursing, and a strange set of degrees
A career in nursing, paired improbably with a degree in archaeology and landscape history, and a Masters in Writing for Performance.
2015
The first novel
After a stint working as a nurse on cruise ships, and a lack of a better idea, the first novel got written. It remains unpublished — but it started something.
Ten years of writing groups
Keeping it PG
A decade spent in writing groups where everything had to stay PG, being the youngest member in the room — in her 40s.
Now
Channelling her inner demons and writing as raunchy and depraved as she can possibly muster. The Black Trials is where it starts.
what to expect
What she writes, and why
No PG allowed on this side of the website.
Dark, on purpose
is ten years of restraint that’s no longer part
of the plan. Expect stories that go where
they want to go.
Messy, real heroines
characters carry the same chaos,
contradictions, and coping mechanisms as
the woman writing them.
Built to be felt
tension, and the kind of scenes readers will
want to talk about — quietly, or very loudly.