Ash StralPandora’s Box
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Amelia finds a strange artifact at a dig. To stay sane she must open it, but the voices in her head warn that it holds the world’s worst evils.
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Author profile
Ash Stral
Recharging the human spirit, one story at a time.
What Ash is making now
Bookish Troves
Reader’s junk journals: practical reading-journal pages combined with junk-journal designs and ephemera.
Track what you read, then layer in book pages, washi tape, stamps, pressed flowers, library cards and favourite quotes. There’s no “right” way to use them. Keep your journal simple, or make it as wonderfully extra as you like.
Start with the free Reader’s Junk Journal starter kit.
- Book pages
- Washi tape
- Stamps
- Pressed flowers
- Library cards
- Book quotes
- Lace
- Photographs
About Ash
Ash is a science fantasy author who hopes to inspire readers and change the world for the better, one reader at a time. She would be happy just knowing that one of her books means to a reader what her favourite books meant to her.
Ash left a physics PhD programme to follow a long-held calling: daydreaming and creating stories that bring adventure and meaning to readers who want them.
For Ash, reading is not about escaping reality. It is about recharging your spirit with life-affirming values so you can live your best life, fully grounded in reality.
- Makes
- Bookish Troves reading journals
- Writes
- Science fantasy, science fiction
- Authors
- Ayn Rand, Terry Goodkind, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett
- Artists
- Susan Harrison-Tustain, Vladimir Volegov
Ash’s stories
Ash StralStars Calling
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In a dystopia where scientific consensus has become sacred, Mae is tried for heresy. She must choose between kneeling to consensus and dying for her integrity.
Read on Amazon“Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a man’s soul; its task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.”Ayn Rand · one of Ash’s favourite quotes