KC Luna Writes

WORKING TITLES

In Progress

Historical and literary fiction in the works.

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Novel

Historical novel in the research and early drafting phase.

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Print-Ready Stories

Short works of literary fiction ready for submission.

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Drafted Stories

Short literary fiction being reviewed by editors.

– Teasers –

Collar City Gorge

From Gilded Age to Urban Blight, my debut historical novel examines how first and second-wave feminists fared during the rise and fall of industrialization in a Victorian town on the Hudson.

The Gilded Age

It’s the 1860s and a young Irish woman is employed by and personally entwined with a robber-baron-to-be. What happens when she’s asked to go on strike?

Urban Renewal

It’s the 1960s and an architecture student has visions of condemned buildings in a decaying town. Seeking answers, she obsesses over a 100-year-old mystery.

Cuff & collar workers at Cluett, Peabody & Company, circa 1890. Photo courtesy of Hart Cluett Museum, Troy, NY.

Troy University overlooks a city destroyed by fire in 1862. Courtesy of Great Fire, Troy, NY.
Troy’s architectural wonders, rebuilt after the fire, came under threat during the 1960s Urban Renewal movement.
The protagonist is haunted by visions of the Troy University building demolition in 1969. Courtesy of RPI.
The Poestenkill Gorge inspired the novel’s plot and provides a scene for an event in the book.

The making of a novel.

See what methods I’m using to connect with the past.

Research in action