Author Carissa Starr
Welcome to my corner of the universe. I am an author of fantasy and science fiction, an artist and a teacher. It is an AI-free space. All my work is human-made from start to finish.
On my site you can find news about upcoming projects and releases, digital downloads for purchase, an in-depth look at the conlangs I created for The Tybraes Cycles series, and for the truly curious, peeks at my past film and photography work.
Below please explore my current series: The Tybraes Cycles
It is available now on Amazon.
Feel free to contact me with any questions about me or my work.
Audio trailer by Carol Beth Anderson, excerpt from chapter one
ABOUT THE BOOK
A fantasy novel appropriate for ages 17+
“The Blade Spirit does not feel. It acts. It slices to the quick.”
In a land torn apart by two warring factions, the young Erahthi woman Khes Adaia is just trying to survive. Enslaved for two long years, the warrior monk finally sees her chance for freedom but it comes at a price. Relentlessly pursued, she is recaptured and thrust toward a destiny she wants no part of. Her only thoughts are of protecting her younger brother and not losing her sense of self. But as an old god, Uvall rises, so much more will be expected from the “Blade Spirit”, the woman who can bend time. Khes’s ability alone won’t save them, but she is the key to unlocking the answers they need to find something called “The Motherless” and to ultimately defeat Uvall. (Preview at link) BUY THE BOOK
And dive into the sequel!
WHEN COMES THE FIRETIDE: EMERGENTS BUY NOW
The Old God, Uvall, has awoken — and his devotees now praise him with blood.
The ground is shifting, rippling throughout Tybraes and The World Beyond. The fragile balance between clans, empires and belief systems is further fractured. Prophecy speaks of unity, but history remembers only war. To survive what is coming, enemies must stand together, truths must be unearthed, and those marked by power they never asked for must decide what they are willing to become.
How does one choose to identify when the institutions that shaped them have fallen away?
Khes walks a perilous line between death and divinity, haunted by what she was and what Tybraes asks of her, questioning her world paradigm. Zakeriel, a Jaed Knight floundering for purpose, must confront the man he was raised to be and the man he chooses to be, seeking certainty in the shadows of perceived failures. Together, they discover who they are when all pretense is stripped away, and form a bond that defies anyone’s understanding of the Elhia.
As civil war, faith and ambition collide, the greatest threat may not be the awakened god itself, but the certainty of those who believe they serve it.
Dark, lyrical and unflinching, Emergents is the powerful sequel to Inundation.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A fantasy novella appropriate for ages 9 to adult
Isabella Rose McGill thought that moving to Ireland with her Father and Nana was adventure enough until she finds a unique bauble dangling from a birch tree. The young girl had no way of knowing that the strange necklace would be a key to an entirely new adventure. One filled with danger, wonder and creatures she had never before imagined. To her misfortune, however, that necklace truly was a key, the ONLY key, to a powerful doorway between worlds known as…
The EVERGATE.
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I write film reviews, only they aren’t “here are stars ★★★☆ –– go see this” reviews, I write more of an analysis. I break it down, arc shot around it for a different perspective to look at things most viewers don’t think about when watching a movie… like themes and symbolism, why Tilda Swinton’s costume in Snowpiercer was way more politically brilliant than just for silly effect, and why a film didn’t actually suck like you thought it did, or why it did, it really, really, did. (Trust me, I have a strong conversion rate.) I’ve watched everything from a Bruce Campbell campy sci-fi to a Hungarian kitten snuff film…all in the name of my love of art. I’m kidding (sort of)…mostly because occasionally I have to write something fun to read too. Mouthy essays on camera angles and the meaning of weather in Kurosawa films doesn’t interest everyone. But mention brain worms or kitten murder and, it’s weird, but everyone wants to read. READ MORE
GALLERIES
Previous to focusing on writing and filmmaking I had been doing art and editorial photography. It was as close to doing film as I could manage by myself as I had some limitations when it came to gathering a film crew. I was with an agency for a brief time, and worked independently with models to do my own narrative collections. Here is a selection of my work. I still pick up my camera and shoot from time to time. VIEW THE GALLERY