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We spent the whole day falling off the Bookshelf.

Those wonderful folks at Head of Zeus have reissued the Star Svensdotter trilogy in new digital editions featuring eye-popping new cover art. Excerpt– “Okay, I’m going to take a short test flight, check out the equipment and the conditions.  You stay put.” “No fair,” somebody muttered. “Stay put,” I repeated, “and watch me.”  I circumvented…

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“I think I’m in love,” Caleb said.

Those wonderful folks at Head of Zeus have reissued the Star Svensdotter trilogy in new digital editions featuring eye-popping new cover art. Excerpt– “Don’t worry about it, Mel boy,” we heard her say.   “Don’t worry about it?” Mel boy said through his tears.  “I sold you that claim for sixty thousand and now you stand…

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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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#thiswritinglife

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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“You want to move the river again?”

— 1 — Worlds Enough Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live… —Niccolo Machiavelli “YOU WANT TO MOVE the river again?” Roberta McInerny’s square face settled into stubborn lines. If Outpost…

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“…a nonlinear computer weighing only 160 pounds, having a billion binary decision elements, that can be mass produced by unskilled labor.”

— 1 — Nonlinear Computers …a nonlinear computer weighing only 160 pounds, having a billion binary decision elements, that can be mass produced by unskilled labor. —Scott Crossfield’s description of an astronaut THE CAPTAIN SPAT OUT A HANK OF MY HAIR and swore. “Star, either you tie up that mess or I take a knife…

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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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Sex. And violence. But mostly sex.

[from the stabenow.com vaults, 7/16/2010. Reposting, just because.] I’m just saying. I was on a local radio show recently, me and host Aaron talking about good summer reads, when someone called in to say that he’d read a couple of my books and called them soft porn. I admitted that, yes, there was sex in…

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