Irene Daniels's Blog
December 5, 2025
Early Ebook Copies of "Fighting Moonlight"
Opportunity for free copy at the end of this
The story behind it all:
I wrote the bare bones of the first 4 chapters of this book when I was roughly nineteen years old. It has been transferred from Hephaestion the laptop, to unnamed desktop, to Adonis the laptop, and lastly to Persephone the laptop. It has been shelved and worked on with constant repeat. Where the story started and what it ended up being...the destinations are not remotely the same. I no longer recognize the intentions younger me composed.
What started off as a fanfiction secreted away for my own amusement morphed into a story of werewolves, vampires, and paranormal romance. The characters had taken on lives and backstories of their own. I am in my mid-thirties now and this story that has been picked, pecked, and pestered at for around seventeen years has been transformed into what it is now these past couple years. A chapter closes with this birth of a new series.
"Can't Fight Love", my interconnected (yet standalone) paranormal romance series.
By publishing "Fighting Moonlight" I will be putting the off and on writing of it to be as it heralds in more books to come. Sadie and Cooper the first of many to tell their story. It is their story that is the catalyst of everyone else's.
Do you want a free early release copy?
Follow either the Bookfunnel or the Booksirens link to snag your very own ARC of "Fighting Moonlight".
Bookfunnel:
https://BookHip.com/ZJQFNBF
Booksirens:
https://booksirens.com/book/L8NAND0/N...
Word Count: 143,000
Tropes: fated mates
fade-to-black
character growth
ride-or-die besties
pack/family dynamics
wolf shifters, vampires, & humans-oh my!
overcoming grief
flawed main characters
The story behind it all:
I wrote the bare bones of the first 4 chapters of this book when I was roughly nineteen years old. It has been transferred from Hephaestion the laptop, to unnamed desktop, to Adonis the laptop, and lastly to Persephone the laptop. It has been shelved and worked on with constant repeat. Where the story started and what it ended up being...the destinations are not remotely the same. I no longer recognize the intentions younger me composed.
What started off as a fanfiction secreted away for my own amusement morphed into a story of werewolves, vampires, and paranormal romance. The characters had taken on lives and backstories of their own. I am in my mid-thirties now and this story that has been picked, pecked, and pestered at for around seventeen years has been transformed into what it is now these past couple years. A chapter closes with this birth of a new series.
"Can't Fight Love", my interconnected (yet standalone) paranormal romance series.
By publishing "Fighting Moonlight" I will be putting the off and on writing of it to be as it heralds in more books to come. Sadie and Cooper the first of many to tell their story. It is their story that is the catalyst of everyone else's.
Do you want a free early release copy?
Follow either the Bookfunnel or the Booksirens link to snag your very own ARC of "Fighting Moonlight".
Bookfunnel:
https://BookHip.com/ZJQFNBF
Booksirens:
https://booksirens.com/book/L8NAND0/N...
Word Count: 143,000
Tropes: fated mates
fade-to-black
character growth
ride-or-die besties
pack/family dynamics
wolf shifters, vampires, & humans-oh my!
overcoming grief
flawed main characters
May 7, 2024
What's in a Pen Name
When I decided to officially embark on my writer journey, I knew I wanted to use a pen name. I wanted to keep myself & my writing career separate. Not necessarily for a grand scale reason, but for myself. I needed to see myself & the writer as two individual entities. What Irene Daniels asks for, what she desires, how she pushes through...is not what I typically do for myself. Irene Daniels is more than just me.
She is my Grandmother as well. I chose the name "Irene" for her. She was the one who engraved my love and respect for books on my soul. Her two favorite things in this world were books & food. Reading, cooking, and eating were her greatest joys in life. With crochet closely behind.
She was the kindest woman this world in all of history could bring forth. Growing up she told me how she used to read by moonlight when her parents told her it was bedtime. The hunger she had for books never satiated. She dreamt of being a writer or an English teacher herself. But she was Polish in a time when it was a joke to be Polish. She had teachers put her in the back of the classroom because "Polish were too stupid to learn anyway". In high school she told teachers of her plans for after school to be an English teacher or a writer...that teacher laughed at her and said, "Polish women are only good for making babies."
So that's what Grandma did. She gave up on her dreams & made babies. She had 8 children who all went on to have children of their own. My entire family built upon the broken dreams of teenage girl.
My Grandmother passed away to cancer over a decade ago & I knew when I started this I wanted to in some small way make her dreams come true with this. I wanted Irene to be published. I wanted Irene to be a writer. I wanted Irene to forever be on the pages of books she loved so much.
My pen name means the world to me. It is a part of not only my history, but my whole family's. A writer by any other name would still be a writer, but any other name wouldn't have me being the writer I want to be.
She is my Grandmother as well. I chose the name "Irene" for her. She was the one who engraved my love and respect for books on my soul. Her two favorite things in this world were books & food. Reading, cooking, and eating were her greatest joys in life. With crochet closely behind.
She was the kindest woman this world in all of history could bring forth. Growing up she told me how she used to read by moonlight when her parents told her it was bedtime. The hunger she had for books never satiated. She dreamt of being a writer or an English teacher herself. But she was Polish in a time when it was a joke to be Polish. She had teachers put her in the back of the classroom because "Polish were too stupid to learn anyway". In high school she told teachers of her plans for after school to be an English teacher or a writer...that teacher laughed at her and said, "Polish women are only good for making babies."
So that's what Grandma did. She gave up on her dreams & made babies. She had 8 children who all went on to have children of their own. My entire family built upon the broken dreams of teenage girl.
My Grandmother passed away to cancer over a decade ago & I knew when I started this I wanted to in some small way make her dreams come true with this. I wanted Irene to be published. I wanted Irene to be a writer. I wanted Irene to forever be on the pages of books she loved so much.
My pen name means the world to me. It is a part of not only my history, but my whole family's. A writer by any other name would still be a writer, but any other name wouldn't have me being the writer I want to be.
August 21, 2023
Hardest Part of Being an Indie Writer
The hardest part (for me) of being an indie writer is the marketing. Its the putting myself out there. Its the advertising. Reaching out.
Social Media...*shudders*
I'm not the kind of person with the value or motivation to push myself on others. I love my stories, but I don't know how others feel & so the idea of me saying "Hey, you! Yeah, you! Spend your time & money on my book." is quite a scary thought to me.
By nature, I'm a very loud and firework-esque person. I have purple & teal hair with loads of tattoos. Not to mention my personal style that is somewhere between Earthbound and Hot Topic. But by no means does any of that mean I seek attention. Its just me being me.
When I first started my self-publishing journey everyone told me "The hardest part is over!" and that statement was meant to be as encouragement, but for me the writing of the book is the fun and easy part. I truly from the bottom of my heart enjoy writing. I love my characters. I want to follow them on their adventures and see where they take me.
However ask me to talk about myself or convince people to use their resources for me & I struggle. I want readers. I want to share my creations with the world. I want my books on your shelf. Trying to get there though & get over the mental hurdle of acquiring readers is hard. I'll get there & the way there is one that is dependent upon the people I don't want to trouble. See the vicious cycle that torments the mind lol?
Social Media...*shudders*
I'm not the kind of person with the value or motivation to push myself on others. I love my stories, but I don't know how others feel & so the idea of me saying "Hey, you! Yeah, you! Spend your time & money on my book." is quite a scary thought to me.
By nature, I'm a very loud and firework-esque person. I have purple & teal hair with loads of tattoos. Not to mention my personal style that is somewhere between Earthbound and Hot Topic. But by no means does any of that mean I seek attention. Its just me being me.
When I first started my self-publishing journey everyone told me "The hardest part is over!" and that statement was meant to be as encouragement, but for me the writing of the book is the fun and easy part. I truly from the bottom of my heart enjoy writing. I love my characters. I want to follow them on their adventures and see where they take me.
However ask me to talk about myself or convince people to use their resources for me & I struggle. I want readers. I want to share my creations with the world. I want my books on your shelf. Trying to get there though & get over the mental hurdle of acquiring readers is hard. I'll get there & the way there is one that is dependent upon the people I don't want to trouble. See the vicious cycle that torments the mind lol?
July 19, 2023
Eclectic, Indecisive, or Just Loving Life
I've been told before my interests and my tastes are all over the place. In kind words I've been called 'eclectic' and in not so kind words 'why can't you just make up your mind?'.
The reason in short is simple to me. There is so much to life. So many different cultures, languages, places, options, etc. The world has so much to offer. Why would I put myself in a box and limit the short years we have in this life? I'll never understand people who have a short list of foods they actually eat, listen to one type of music, watch one genre of television, who never leave their own mental backyard, who diss people who speak more than one language. I'm not judging them, I simply don't understand it. Why keep yourself on such a short leash?
When my soul and body decide to part ways and I go back into the universe or whatever awaits...I want to have tasted as much as I can of life. I want to open my arms and embrace life. I want to know my experiences were as much alive as I was. I'm passionate about growth.
I'm a Pisces and as such a typical water sign. I like to ebb and flow. I like to move. I hate stagnancy. That also goes with the whole AuDHD aspect of my mind. I get itchy. My brain gets hungry.
I believe in the power of connection. If I only stay with people like me I'll always be comfortable. Never challenged. Never at odds.
But I'll starve...
I want to know you and I want you to know me. I find myself constantly reaching out. So I watch shows that require subtitles. I eat food I have difficulty pronouncing. I go down music rabbit holes on YouTube. I want to be in hundreds of places at once. I love life. I love learning. I love growing. Call me eclectic. Call me indecisive. Maybe I'm all the above. But I know I wouldn't change it.
June 25, 2023
Introduction To Me
I have been writing before I could actually put my thoughts to paper. I am as I have always been. A writer at heart. My creativity and my imagination has always been a way to control and guide my AuDHD. My brain is constantly going. Constantly moving. Constantly filling itself with the most mundane thoughts, the most anxiety inducing ones, to ones that are past, present, and future. The best way for me to cope with that was with my stories and my characters. I'd build a whole worlds and just let the stories come to life. It gave my brain a set track without allowing it to run rampant. My characters for me are my favorite part though. I don't believe in creating flat people. No one is too small to have an entire life. It may not make it to the paper, but I know who in my head who they are and where they've been.
There are those in this world who consider fiction writing pointless, but to me that shows they are only looking at the surface. With fiction writing you are learning about things for your soul, for your heart, for your social aspects. Fiction writing allows us to live a thousand lifetimes in a few short pages. We are on this planet for 100 years and the limitations of our reality is so binding, but with fiction our minds can break the barriers and take us on adventures, feel emotions, befriend, in ways we never could before. I love fiction for the way it carries me away. I appreciate nonfiction for how it teaches us and informs us. But appreciate fiction for how it lets me live.
I don't follow a set genre as I don't have the attention span to stick to just one. I have a very eclectic taste and so my books reflect. I do lean towards supernatural and paranormal and romance is most likely always weaved into the core of a story. All I can do is thank you for supporting me on this journey and I hope I make your reading experience that much more special.
There are those in this world who consider fiction writing pointless, but to me that shows they are only looking at the surface. With fiction writing you are learning about things for your soul, for your heart, for your social aspects. Fiction writing allows us to live a thousand lifetimes in a few short pages. We are on this planet for 100 years and the limitations of our reality is so binding, but with fiction our minds can break the barriers and take us on adventures, feel emotions, befriend, in ways we never could before. I love fiction for the way it carries me away. I appreciate nonfiction for how it teaches us and informs us. But appreciate fiction for how it lets me live.
I don't follow a set genre as I don't have the attention span to stick to just one. I have a very eclectic taste and so my books reflect. I do lean towards supernatural and paranormal and romance is most likely always weaved into the core of a story. All I can do is thank you for supporting me on this journey and I hope I make your reading experience that much more special.
