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Stranded Warrior: Book One
Artemis is a girl with the ability to control all four elements. All her life she has lived on an island with only two companions, her best friend Orion and his father Aeolus. And then death visited their island paradise. Raiders from the mainland carry them off to a long-forgotten war and a quest for vengeance and the secret to their origins.
278 pages, Paperback
Published May 22, 2022
About the author
Tara O'Shea
3 books10 followersTara O'Shea is a Chicago-area artist, writer, and editor.
Her essay collection "Chicks Dig Time Lords", co-edited with Lynne M Thomas, from Mad Norwegian Press won the 2011 Hugo Award for "Best Related Work", and was the first in a popular series of essay collections including "Whedonistas", "Chicks Dig Comics", "Chicks Dig Gaming", and "Queers Dig Time Lords".
After the success of "Chicks Dig Time Lords", her co-editor Lynne Thomas continued editing and contributing to other Mad Norwegian anthologies, eventually taking the reigns of APEX Magazine from editor Cat Valente, organising a fannish podcast featuring Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, L.M. Myles, Elizabeth Bear, and other guests. Following her brief stint at APEX, she and husband Michael Thomas successfully crowd-funded the magazine "Uncanny", edited by fellow Chicago geek extraordinaire, the award-winning Michi Trota.
Since her brief foray into the world of creating, co-editing, and contributing to essay collections about popular media, O'Shea has returned to her roots as a graphic designer. In addition to working for many years at a variety of professional agencies and production companies, she has also designed and illustrated both e-book and print covers for a variety of authors, including Seanan McGuire, C.E. Murphy, Ingrid Seymour, Jon Sprunk, Simon R Green, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Moon, and many others.
In addition to her 20 years of experience as an artist, she worked since 1999 as a freelance journalist, contributing editor, managing editor, and (briefly) editor-in-chief. Her articles, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in such publications as Tor.com, Firefox News, Titan's officially licensed "Angel" magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, The 11th Hour, Audio Revolution, MediaSharx/ZENtertainment, and other online and print publications.
For more information about the author, please visit fringe-elements.com
Her essay collection "Chicks Dig Time Lords", co-edited with Lynne M Thomas, from Mad Norwegian Press won the 2011 Hugo Award for "Best Related Work", and was the first in a popular series of essay collections including "Whedonistas", "Chicks Dig Comics", "Chicks Dig Gaming", and "Queers Dig Time Lords".
After the success of "Chicks Dig Time Lords", her co-editor Lynne Thomas continued editing and contributing to other Mad Norwegian anthologies, eventually taking the reigns of APEX Magazine from editor Cat Valente, organising a fannish podcast featuring Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, L.M. Myles, Elizabeth Bear, and other guests. Following her brief stint at APEX, she and husband Michael Thomas successfully crowd-funded the magazine "Uncanny", edited by fellow Chicago geek extraordinaire, the award-winning Michi Trota.
Since her brief foray into the world of creating, co-editing, and contributing to essay collections about popular media, O'Shea has returned to her roots as a graphic designer. In addition to working for many years at a variety of professional agencies and production companies, she has also designed and illustrated both e-book and print covers for a variety of authors, including Seanan McGuire, C.E. Murphy, Ingrid Seymour, Jon Sprunk, Simon R Green, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Moon, and many others.
In addition to her 20 years of experience as an artist, she worked since 1999 as a freelance journalist, contributing editor, managing editor, and (briefly) editor-in-chief. Her articles, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in such publications as Tor.com, Firefox News, Titan's officially licensed "Angel" magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, The 11th Hour, Audio Revolution, MediaSharx/ZENtertainment, and other online and print publications.
For more information about the author, please visit fringe-elements.com
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