Raven Starfenne

  Hello lovely readers, it’s Raven  I thought it was time to pull back the curtain and share where each of my three current projects is sitting. All three are growing in such different directions that my desk looks like a cross between a paranormal library, a monster ethics symposium, and an architectural studio in the clouds. For the second book in the Banksia Cove Mysteries, this week has been all about crafting a new character, Matilda, the main character’s sister. She arrived on the page unexpectedly (as sisters often do), suitcase in hand, well travelled, clever, and pregnant. She’s a freelance journalist with a knack for uncovering stories, which immediately complicates life in a town where secrets, ghosts, and magical artefacts prefer to stay hidden. Her presence adds a new emotional layer to the protagonist’s journey, and her pregnancy brings both tenderness and tension to the narrative. She’s already proving to be one of those characters who walks in and refuses to be...

  Hello, it’s Raven and if you’re reading this, you’ve stepped into the liminal and quiet corner of the internet where my stories begin. After the successful release of The Late Returns, book one in the Banksia Cove Mysteries, I am now writing in three different worlds at once. They’re wildly different, yet strangely connected.    I wanted to open the door just a little and let you peek in. Firstly I will be returning to a world I thought I knew, Banksia Cove.  The first project continues a story already in motion, familiar characters, familiar shadows, but deeper stakes. I’m discovering new corners of this world, new truths about the people who live in it, and new questions I didn’t realise I was asking the first time around. It’s a book about love, loyalty and the quiet ways we change when no one is watching. The second story has been haunting me for years.  The second project is something I began long ago.    It is a paranormal tale that has refused...

  For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to the places where the veil between the world and the extraordinary feels thin, where rooms hold their breath, where landscapes hold old stories, and where thresholds hide something unseen that lingers close by.  My lifelong interest in the paranormal has taken me across continents, photographing haunted sites, researching strange histories, and stepping into the quiet of places most people hurry past.    Those experiences have shaped the way I write.    They’ve taught me to listen for the subtle shifts in atmosphere and to notice what hides in the corners.    I tend to follow the emotional currents that move beneath the surface of a story.    This new book grew out of that way of seeing, it is part investigation, part intuition, and part a beautiful conversation with the unknown. My understanding of the paranormal was shaped early.    As a child visiting an old cottage, I sudde...