Not long ago, the incredibly talented Carol Beth Anderson offered to do audio samples for authors. It was an amazing opportunity to hear our work done by an accomplished voice professional. I leapt at the opportunity. Here is her wonderful, engaging work, an excerpt from chapter one of WHEN COMES THE FIRETIDE: INUNDATION, available on […]
CW: implied threats of sexual assault Also apologies for any formatting errors * * *The house, when they found it, was exactly as Ossie had described it. The wood siding was drooping with age, paint peeling like the dying skin of a leper. The roof was so bowed, it held water, and the acres of […]
Celebrations of harvest pervade virtually every culture, and they are often entangled with rituals relating to gratitude, thanksgiving and honoring of the home, family and community. The same is true in Tybraes. The Erahthi are known for being a race that lives in harmony with the land, so a harvest festival would not be surprising. […]
In July of 1992, I was five months away from being 16 years old and Star Trek: The Next Generation was on hiatus before its sixth year. I long had been demonstrating my interests in film and television, in writing and art. My father, the clever and encouraging man he was, always found ways to […]
A foeresh, eralenet! (Greetings, friends!) When I set out to write “When Comes the Firetide” it was just supposed to be this little single book fantasy novel – and a distraction at that! I was actually very focused on a sci-fi book I was working on at the time that was requiring a lot of […]
Before I replaced my computer, I wrote this simple short story on a mobile device. It’s less than two pages and it is born from a very personal place. Just a little bit of fiction with an honest heart. – – – – The Egg Bowl by Carissa Starr It felt like desperation and he […]
Anyone familiar with Jim Butcher’s “Dresden Files” is familiar with the idea that ‘wizards plus technology equals catastrophe’. Well I, my friends, am a wizard. Not a terribly powerful one, mind you. My powers ebb and flow, but the number of computers that have died at my fingertips has recently increased by one and that […]
In the begininning of last year, I wrote a rather ambitious story. It is a lengthier short story, not long enough to be a novella, so I broke it into two parts. The story is called “Kajosika” and in it I very openly attack a lot of social ills: income inequality, social stigmatization of the […]
I write a variety of things for my Patreon page. Lately it has been mostly short stories. In the past, however, I have written scripts, shared chapters of novels as I worked on them, written a random poem/song. I try to keep things interesting for readers and for me. The most recent posting was a […]
Many of the posts here on my site are chapter excerpts from ‘When Comes the Firetide: Emergents’ that then link to my old Firetide Work-in-Progress blog where I used to post whole chapters up to be read as I finished them. I did this with the first book, and then again with the second book, […]
Carissa Starr 