Frequently Asked Questions
Who Are You?
I’m Mariah Tyler Moore: author, lyricist, independent journalist, and CEO of Radical Resilience, LLC.
Writing is what I do for a living, and it’s what I’ve done since I was a kid. My first professional byline came at age twelve, writing for my hometown newspaper. Today I’ve come full circle. I’m back covering my own community as an independent journalist while building my career as a genre-bending author and lyricist.
I write across genres because my life has never fit into neat categories and my work shouldn’t either. My books span contemporary romance, dark fantasy, science fiction, small-town literary fiction, and self-help, all connected by a single thread: the belief that our wounds are not our weaknesses, they are our wisdom.
As a neurodivergent woman with multiple chronic illnesses, I don’t write about resilience from the sidelines. I write it from the trenches. Every story I tell comes back to the idea that the things society reads as weakness are, in fact, our greatest strengths.
What is Radical Resilience?
Radical Resilience is my battle-tested philosophy for a messy, magnificent life. It’s the theme that runs through every novel, song, and blog post I write. More than that, it’s the survival mechanism I built to get through a life of real adversity.
At its core sits the Wounded Healer: your scars are your superpower, and your history doesn’t make you damaged goods. It makes you a warrior. There’s also Authentic Self-Expression, the daily, gritty practice of letting go of who you think you’re supposed to be and daring to embrace who you actually are. And there’s Found Family, the people who earn their place in your life through loyalty and love instead of blood. When the world’s systems fail you, the ultimate act of resilience is to build a better one. You do that by forging your tribe.
What is Radical Resilience, LLC?
Radical Resilience, LLC is a single-member limited liability company that I own and operate. It’s the professional home for everything I make.
The company works in two directions. It’s the small press imprint that publishes my books, and it’s a creative services business offering web design, web content, freelance author services (editing, formatting, structural guidance), plus workshops and speaking engagements. The Moore Universe is the creative side of the house, where all my literary and artistic work lives.
What is The Moore Universe?
The Moore Universe is the brand that holds every story I tell. Across every genre, the books are linked by the philosophy of Radical Resilience: turning wounds into wisdom, scars into superpowers, adversity into authenticity.
My characters all carry the same DNA. A legally blind designer whose experimental contacts let her see patterns nobody else can. An autistic medical student whose sensory overload triggers astral projection. In my books, otherness is never an obstacle to be overcome. It’s the superhuman power that saves everything.
Published Books
My catalog includes twelve published titles: The Spaces Between Us (contemporary romance, Amazon #1 Bestseller), Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing (fantasy romance), The Connectivity Hypothesis (science fiction), Love, BestieBot: A Benevolent Technothriller (science fiction), The Trilogy of Thalvannar: A Dark Fantasy of Moon Magic (epic dark fantasy), The Green Donut: A Time Warp Valley Story (small-town fiction), Tides of Ruin (epic dark fantasy), Brace For It (zombie horror/comedy), Ink and Water: A Writers’ Romance (contemporary romance), Lawful Good: The Rescue (science fiction), Learning to Live (short fiction collection), and Stop Hating Your Life: A Guide to Finding ‘MOORE’.
Most of these I wrote alone but a few I co-authored, because some stories are better with another brain in on the word choice.
Five more manuscripts are in progress. Some were started recently. Others I’ve carried since that first byline nearly two decades ago.
Music
I’ve written lyrics for more than 150 songs, available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major streaming platforms. My lyrics carry Radical Resilience into another medium: anthems of defiance, grief, healing, and finding your tribe.
Note: I am not a musician. I use the TopMedi subscription software to produce my lyrics into songs.
Where Can I Purchase Your Work?
You can buy copies directly through my official Amazon page, and you’ll find my books at select independent bookstores in Las Vegas.
Libraries have been part of my plan from the beginning, because libraries outlast the people who write the books. The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District carries eight of my titles. The Sanpete County Library Consortium is acquiring my entire catalog of twelve. The Karen H. Huntsman Library at Snow College holds three. One novel lives in the Indie Nevada BiblioBoard Library collection. Across the Intermountain West, roughly thirty library branches now have my books available for their patrons.
What Else Are You Involved In?
Community is where I get my fuel. I chair the Sanpete Cares Coalition, where I help run the meetings that connect people with the resources they need. I serve as founding president of the Sanpete County Wordsmiths, the first League of Utah Writers chapter in the county. I also founded Writers of Utah, a free Discord community connecting authors across the state, which debuted its first booth at the 2026 Scandinavian Heritage Festival.
Where Can I See You Speak?
Speaking has become its own arm of my work, and it’s how I’ve chosen to build my brand: in person, in rooms where people showed up on purpose. I served as faculty at the 2026 Las Vegas Writers Conference and have been invited back as faculty in 2028. I taught Write Like You Mean It: A Radical Resilience Workshop for Writers at the Clark County Library, and brought Work Like You Mean It to Snow College’s GRIT Center for their entrepreneurship seminar. Upcoming events are usually listed on my website.
What is Your Creative Process?
My process is Radical Resilience in action. I live with POTS, gastroparesis, and hEDS, plus a tremor that makes sitting at a keyboard for hours a painful and sometimes impossible endurance test. So I work around my body instead of pretending it isn’t there, using whatever tools actually help.
That means I’m transparent about assistive technology, including AI, because it’s part of the operating system I built and I refuse to be cagey about it. In practice: I write a chapter or a song, then I ask an assistive AI to catch errors, inconsistencies, or continuity problems. It’s the work a professional editor or a fresh set of eyes would do if I could afford one. I keep that use as light as I can. I also have Speechify read drafts aloud so I can edit with my ears instead of only my eyes, which is a straightforwardly useful accessibility tool for me.
I’ll also say plainly that I think generative AI is being deployed irresponsibly across nearly every industry, which is exactly why I’m careful about how and when I touch it. My understanding here has evolved. I’ve taken information literacy and digital ethics courses and done the work to find where the lines actually are. I’m not the same person on this subject that I was a few years ago, and I own the parts of my history I’ve grown past.
Every word with my name on it is mine, completely. I’ve been writing since I was a tiny tot of a girl, and many of the stories I’ve published recently sat finished or half-finished for years before they saw daylight. The tools help me move at the pace this industry demands. The work is mine. I believe in human art.
Where Can I Find You on Social Media?
I’m not on social media. Stepping away was one of the most powerful acts of self-preservation I’ve ever committed, and it isn’t a season, it’s a decision. Everything current and accurate about my work lives here. If it isn’t current from this site, it isn’t me.
How Can I Contact You?
Start here: linktr.ee/mariahtylermoore
Website: www.mariahtylermoore.com
Email: mariah@radicallymoore.com
Personal Portfolio: sites.google.com/radicallymoore.com/radically-moore/
If you’ve made it this far, you’re already part of my Found Family. Welcome.