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Kyra R. Croninger

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Born
in Wichita, KS
November 14, 1997

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cornelia Funke, Eoin Colfer, Neal Shusterman

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June 2023


Kyra R. Croninger is one of those rare people who lives in Kansas and actually likes it. From the vibrant sunsets, to the combines during harvest season, and the impressive enormity of grain elevators, she is constantly surrounded by inspiration and the nagging question of “what if I staged a fight scene in *insert boring, Midwestern location here?*”

With bachelor's degrees in History and Theology, Kyra enjoys putting her research skills to work in her fiction projects, and values the importance of story-telling in understanding the complexity and beauty of our vast human experiences. When she's not laboring over research and writing, she's probably out with her horses, recreating story locations in Minecraft, or bringing her characters to l
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Kyra R. Croninger I think it's safe to say that this Mosley guy does a fair bit of subtle and blatant alluding to a character to come. The Parallel is planned to be fou…moreI think it's safe to say that this Mosley guy does a fair bit of subtle and blatant alluding to a character to come. The Parallel is planned to be four-book series, so there are plenty of characters we haven't met yet. ;) One in particular, though, I think will demand a series of his own, to do him his proper justice. So yes...there are most certainly plans for more to come after The Parallel, and I'm very excited to share more about them as I plow along.(less)
Kyra R. Croninger They come to me in nightly visions.

No, okay, seriously: I don’t have a set system for name-giving. Lots of my character’s names come from my surroundi…more
They come to me in nightly visions.

No, okay, seriously: I don’t have a set system for name-giving. Lots of my character’s names come from my surroundings, like River Kodai, who got his name from a winery near my college (Riverwood) and the villain of a musical I had seen the week of his creation (Kodaly from She Loves Me). Yancey got his name from a person I knew as a kid (and Victoria from my roommate’s Victoria’s Secret makeup bag.) Moses’ just fell out of the sky and seemed right so I slapped it on him, but his first name, Wyatt, came from my searching baby name lists.

So…all over the place. But ultimately, it’s just “what sounds best.” I know other people go for meaning and symbolism, but that rarely happens with my cast, unless by happy accident.(less)
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3.5, if I was able to leave a .5.

Man, if you're a 20s-early 30s-year-old wondering how you ruined your life so fast, a few of the lines in this sucker are going to gut punch you.

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Hans Urs von Balthasar
“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.”
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