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Hester Stasse

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Born

Den Haag, Netherlands

Website

http://www.hesterstasse.nl

Genre

Fantasy, Young Adult, Thriller

Member Since

December 2012

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Hester Stasse was born in Den Haag, raised in Voorburg and is currently living in Son en Breugel (NL) together with two rabbits. After studying Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, she worked and lived in Göteborg, Sweden, for more than 6 years. Hester is now working as an equine-assisted coach and as an equine behaviour therapist and trainer in the vicinity of Eindhoven.

Writing has been one of Hester's many passions since primary school. She wrote reviews and articles for the Dutch Progressive Rock Page and a few fanclub magazines for a while, but otherwise, her stories remained a closet affair. Until 2012 that is, when Hester decided to finally share a few of her fantasy stories with the outside world. She came in Hester Stasse was born in Den Haag, raised in Voorburg and is currently living in Son en Breugel (NL) together with two rabbits. After studying Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, she worked and lived in Göteborg, Sweden, for more than 6 years. Hester is now working as an equine-assisted coach and as an equine behaviour therapist and trainer in the vicinity of Eindhoven.

Writing has been one of Hester's many passions since primary school. She wrote reviews and articles for the Dutch Progressive Rock Page and a few fanclub magazines for a while, but otherwise, her stories remained a closet affair. Until 2012 that is, when Hester decided to finally share a few of her fantasy stories with the outside world. She came in third with the experimental shortstories "Eenhoorn 2.0?" and "Valse Inkt" in the Dutch "Auteurs with Talent" contest and her novella "Dromenland" was published in the 3-story Young Adult collection Dark Romance - Ontluikende Liefde.

In December 2012, Hester finished her first fantasy novel in Dutch, for which she is trying to find a publisher. 2013 started off well, winning a 3rd price in the Exit Toetsenbord short story competition with "Onbewust". Later on, she came in fourth in the 2013 edition of "Dark Romance" with the novella "Grenzeloos" and sixth in young-adult.nl's dystopian writing contest with the novella "Vleugels".

In 2014, she received one of the Phoenix Prices for biggest improvement versus the previous year in the "Paul Harland Prijs" contest. Two months later, Hester's story "Heldendood" won fourth place (out of 145 entries) in the "Fantastels Verhalenwedstrijd" and was published in the short-story collection Ganymedes-14. In September, her story "Vriendschapsverzoek" was included in the collection Obsessies.

2015 was a year which revolved around studying equine behaviour therapy mostly, which meant that Hester didn't get around to writing very often. She did submit another story to the Harland Awards though and ended up in the top 20% of this contest once more. After that, Hester put a lot of time and effort in enhancing her knowledge on equine behaviour. In parallel, she trained a large number of horses with "behavioural challenges", thus improving her practical skills as well. This resulted in her passing her exams to become a certified equine behaviour therapist in 2016 and a certified instructor in equine behaviour training in 2018. In the meantime, Hester published a large amount of blogs and articles on equine behaviour and how horses and people can support or hinder each other via the website of her company Very Important Horse as well as in magazines like Bit and Level Up.

At this moment, Hester is working on a Young Adult novel in Dutch, which is set in one of her favourite countries: Norway. ...more

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Verhalenwedstrijden

Behalve een fantasyroman heb ik het afgelopen jaar ook meerdere verhalen geschreven voor verschillende verhalenwedstrijden. Een enorme uitdaging om een afgerond verhaal te vertellen binnen een bepaalde woordgrens (soms maar 500 woorden!) en hartstikke leuk om te doen. Alleen zit er wel een groot nadeel aan, namelijk dat anonimiteit bij de meeste wedstrijden een vereiste is. Dat betekent dat ik som Read more of this blog post »

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	Ontluikende Liefde (Dark Romance, #2) by Anne Nicolai (Goodreads Author), Olga Hoekstra (Goodreads Author), Hester Stasse (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ganymedes 14 by Remco Meisner (Goodreads Author), Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Michael Blommaert (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Obsessies by Conny Hoogendoorn (Goodreads Author), Nienke Pool (Goodreads Author), Odile Schmidt 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Slimme non-fictie schrijven: Van droom tot boek

by Marc Buelens

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Horse Speak - die Basis für feines Reiten: Körperlich und mental in Balance (German Edition)

by Kirsti Ludwig

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Hester’s Quotes

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

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“One of the biggest problems I see when working with folks and their horses is that the vast majority of people have been trained to always look for the bad things their horses do. Because they’re always looking for the bad, they easily overlook the little tries and sometimes have trouble seeing the good in their horse, even when the good jumps up and bites them in the butt.”
― Mark Rashid, Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership

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“After all, the qualities required to be good with horses are the same qualities required to be good at life in general, and vice versa. Chances are”
― Mark Rashid, Horsemanship Through Life: A Trainer's Guide to Better Living and Better Riding

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“One of the primary ways horses communicate with us is through their behavior. Again, it is my belief horses don’t distinguish between how they feel and how they act. So if they act a certain way, their actions are reflecting the way they feel. A horse’s body then becomes a mirror for their emotions. So the body informs us of what is truly going on internally.”
― Mark Rashid, Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust Between Horse and Rider

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