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Katherine Starbird

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Born

St. Petersburg, FL

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Genre

Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance

Member Since

June 2014

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Katherine Starbird is a fiction writer whose rich prose brings fantastical elements into the familiar world. Her wildly inventive stories are populated by vivid characters such as an orphaned young heir to Odin, a siren in a city marina, and a shape-shifting goddess masquerading as an ordinary human in modern Washington, DC. No matter how outlandish or out of place her characters are, their epic-sized desires create problems to which readers relate in a very human and endearing way. Her debut novel, The Jaguar Key, received a Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association.

Ms. Starbird is originally from St. Petersburg, Florida. She spent much of her childhood on or around the water–collecting shells or hunting sea critters i

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Average rating: 4.06 · 31 ratings · 9 reviews · 3 distinct works

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Painting Abstract Nature on Canvas: A Guide To Creating Vibrant Art With Watercolour And Mixed Media

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“He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

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“A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

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“The words she sang were his. They told of evils in the world and an absent hero.”
― Katherine Starbird, Reenie Gyse

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.”
― Harry Bingham

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“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

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“Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

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“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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