Tag: second star

Take that, ChatGPT.

Those wonderful folks at Head of Zeus have reissued the Star Svensdotter trilogy in new digital editions featuring eye-popping new cover art. Excerpt– “You’ve got your martyr’s expression on, Star,” Archy said.  “The hell you say.”  Then, startled, I said, “How can you tell?”  “Didn’t you know?”  Archy sounded surprised, but it could have been my…

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Stars 1-3 back in e with fab new cover art

Those wonderful folks at Head of Zeus have reissued the Star Svensdotter trilogy in new digital editions featuring eye-popping new cover art. Check ’em out– Excerpt… “You’ve got your martyr’s expression on, Star,” Archy said.  “The hell you say.”  Then, startled, I said, “How can you tell?”  “Didn’t you know?”  Archy sounded surprised, but it…

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On the importance of setting. Can’t remember who I wrote this for. The US Coast Guard invited me to do a ridealong on cutter Alex Haley in the Bering Sea in February of 2004. I was invited to write a daily blog from the ship so the shorebound families of the crew could eyewitness as…

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My full name is Esther Natasha Svensdotter.

— 1 — Homecoming and Housekeeping There is no land uninhabitable or sea unnavigable. —Robert Thorne MY FULL NAME IS Esther Natasha Svensdotter but if you want to live you’ll call me Star. Star is what Esther means, it was the first word I ever said, and when I’m feeling romantic I like to say…

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