Name: Kyra Synd
First Published book title and date:
The Pleasure Sea (English Edition) – 2024, January 7

How did you start writing?
I started writing for fun because I was a singer and songwriter in a band and had never thought about writing novels. I had to create my character’s background in a role-playing game. As a joke, I told the dungeon master that I’d write a book if I wrote down everything I had in my head. At the end of the four pages he held in his hand, he looked at me and said, “If you write the book, I will gladly read it.” From that day, it was 2010, I haven’t stopped writing.

What inspired you to write?
While scrolling through pictures on Facebook, I saw a photo of a couple on the beach, with a red sunset on which dark silhouettes stood out. This was my dazzling inspiration. Then, I had the idea of combining my passion for motorcycles and clubs, the world I had been around for a few years. It was supposed to be a quick and easy story, an interlude before returning to fantasy writing, but it wasn’t. Before I realized and accepted it, the project exploded in my head and became a series. In the end, the characters in my head ruled.

Tell me a bit about yourself, your writing style, and your first published book:
My style is lean and direct, and I love to focus on emotion and rhythm, probably because I come from the music industry. I like to paint the scene like an expressionist but minimalist artist. “The Pleasure Sea” is the first English edition I publish of one of my books, a little dream come true. That’s the inaugural, riveting book in the “Outlawed Malibu” – an MC romance series of interconnected standalone.
Blurb:
The truth can either shatter you or set you free.
Once a privileged heir of a formidable Malibu lineage, Bryan Collins has lost all that he cherished. His reckless indulgences and dubious associations during his tenure at Queens College reshaped him into Shard, a surfer of globally acknowledged prowess. Yet, the specter of his past re-emerges, disrupting his life in the form of striking blue eyes and cherry lips. Anne Mary Sinclair, the offspring of one of the most influential men in Los Angeles County, is the bearer of these features.
A potent mix of loathing and a yearning for vengeance pulls Bryan into a perilous game, a magnetic pull that could edge him toward the brink of death once more.
What secrets does Mary guard, and what price will Bryan pay to unearth them?

How did your book first come to life? Story first or characters first?
The focus of my stories is always the characters, their lives, their weaknesses, and their struggles for what they desire and love.
The focus of my stories is always the characters, their lives, their weaknesses, and their struggles for what they desire and love. “The Pleasure Sea” deals with a profound love that broke Bryan, a betrayal that cost him everything, hence his anger and hatred toward Mary. On the other side is her, appearing as a princess with a perfect, enviable life but hiding much more. Weaknesses that become strength, despair that drives to action and revenge in search of justice and a future. Passion and forbidden love.

How can readers interact with you, follow you?
I am most active on Facebook, where I have my reader groups, but I am also present on Instagram. I also have a TikTok profile with Italian videos for now. Plus, I edit my newsletter personally, so it’s a great way to connect, and you get a steamy freebie right away.