CREATOR
The Human Story Behind the World
Pamela HURLEY-MOSER
is the creator, author, and lyricist of the Gracen Thorne story world, including its novels and original music. Before the songs and the books, she built a life in business and travel, beginning her career as a pioneer in travel and hospitality and growing Hurley Travel Experts into one of the largest travel management companies in the country through innovation, organic growth, and acquisition.
“Off With The Veil”
Fall 2023. Pam walked into her husband’s art studio and found a life-size sculpture of herself taking shape, drawn from a photograph taken years earlier in the dunes near the Cape of Good Hope. To protect the clay through the heat, he had wrapped it tightly in cellophane.
A woman held still under a thin, transparent veil. Measured to the millimeter, and unable to move.
Something in her recognized it before she had language for it. She had spent a lifetime under a veil of her own.
She took hold of the plastic and tore it.
You are not Pamela. Who are you?
Gracen.
For the grace she gave away and never turned toward herself. And a thorn — something that holds its ground, something that draws blood if you reach for it carelessly.
WHY GRACEN
Pam was raised on an idiom: ladies are meant to be seen, not heard. She never once managed to obey it. She talked. She wanted out loud. She took up the whole room — and then lay awake
apologizing for the size of herself.
That was the arrangement. She could say anything she liked, so long as she paid for it afterward.
Gracen says the same things, and then she sleeps. No inventory at two in the morning. No going back over the sentence to see whether it was too
much.
Everything Pam has paid for twice, Gracen gets for free.
WHAT FOLLOWED
Old journals resurfaced — poems, unfinished lyrics, questions carried unanswered for years. How did I get here? Why do I feel hidden? Is there a cost to staying hidden? She wasn’t looking for material. She was looking for herself. Gracen is what she found on the way.
As co-founder of Limbic Studios and creator of Gracen Thorne Unveiled, Pam continues to reinvent herself through an ongoing creative exploration, summoning the courage, moment by moment, to lose the veil and inhabit her truest self.
“In finding yourself, you can only lose who you are not”
-Gracen Thorne