Starfolk Rising Out Now!
Starfolk Rising is out now! And the Starfolk Arcana is free to download today, so start the Trilogy now!
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A love that spans lifetimes. A deadly vendetta.Two fates destined to collide.
Forced to say goodbye, Beth and Jonan fight, separately, to stop Amelia’s destruction and to hold onto each other. But the mood is changing and people are coming to their side. Will it last, or is it merely an illusion?
Twisted, diminished, desperate and dangerous, Amelia hangs on as her personality cult collapses. She wants to punish those who hurt her. But as she lashes out, she damages herself most of all.
As Beth and Jonan’s soul-family fractures and loyalties shift, Doriel fights to bring the Triad back together. But when disaster strikes, the road back is obliterated. Beth and Jonan have to end Amelia’s attacks, protect those they love and stand together at last. If they can’t fulfil that destiny, fear will win once and for all.
The final instalment in the urban fantasy Starfolk Trilogy about destiny, reincarnation, tarot, and love that lasts lifetimes.
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Atalanta: A Cosy Chat with Jennifer Saint
Hello and welcome to The Story Cave Jennifer! (or do you prefer Jenny?) Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
Most people call me Jenny in real life! I’m the author of Ariadne, Elektra and Atalanta – all Greek myth reimaginings told from the female perspective. I have always had a passion for Greek mythology, and I always nurtured the ambition write novels but I didn’t put the two together until four years ago when I wrote Ariadne aged 36 around my job as an English teacher. Since then, we’ve had a pandemic, I left teaching to become a full-time author and wrote my next two books – I’m currently working on my fourth.
I have read about Jason and the Argonauts, but I’ve never heard of Atalanta and you talk about her being written out of the traditional story. How did you find her? And what drew you to write about her?
I don’t remember exactly the moment when I first encountered Atalanta in mythology – her stories are quite disparate and episodic, and I didn’t have a strong sense of her as a character particularly. But like you say, I certainly knew the legend of Jason and the Argonauts! Atalanta gets a mention in the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, which is our complete surviving account of the Argo’s voyage from antiquity but in this version, Jason refuses to let her board the ship as he thinks she’ll be a distraction. He takes her spear instead as an emblem of her! This really irritated me, but it also suggested to me that there was disagreement in the ancient world as to whether or not she participated in the quest, and in fact there are plenty of mentions of her in other lists of the Argonauts. That piqued my interest in finding out more about her – but honestly, the biggest lure for me was her wild origin story in which she is adopted by a mother bear. The image of her as a baby nestled up among the bear cubs gave me such a strong sense of the kind of woman she’d grow up to be and it made me really want to write her story.
Enter the Starfolk World with my New Micro-Site!
I have launched a new microsite to take you into the world of my Starfolk, with background, pictures and extra content.
This will be a continually evolving journey, so please do check back to find out what new content is there. I will add deleted or expanded scenes, prequel stories and more.
I also have a prequel short story, which I am giving as a welcome gift to newsletter subscribers. So if you would like a copy, please do sign up here.
The picture used on the main page of the microsite shows the street right outside The Third Eye Spiritualist Shop. When I was growing up, there used to be a crystal shop in that spot, and this was part of the inspiration for the story. The wonderfully atmospheric picture was taken by John O’Brien and you can visit his Instagram page for more pictures of St Albans here.