Starla Rajavuori

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A ghost-seeing girl afraid of the dark.
Her horror movie-obsessed cousin.
A tourist boy with a mysterious secret.
Together they're Arctic Finland's most dysfunctional monster-hunting team. Too bad the monster's already hunting 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

SMALL SPACES X 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
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text at top: Happy Apocalypse Day, Marnie! top row pictures: cloaked figure, old church, girl running in forest middle row pictures: moonlight, Sweet 16 cake, silhouette of kid with hands reaching for the kid bottom row pictures: close up of sad girl, desk of candles and a book bottom: row of candles

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Turning 16 on Halloween? Heck yeah.
Losing Mom in a Harvest Fest ritual? Heck no.
Play devour the soul w/Damien like it’s spin the bottle? Wait, what?

Marnie discovers more tricks than treats w/the horrifying truth between her, Damien, & an apocalypse.

You had me at undead museum actors! 🤩 Love this.

Northern Finland holiday vibes check:
❄️ Arctic winter
🌨️ polar night
🦌 reindeer tours
🌲 northern lights
⛄ holiday magic
👻 ghost children
🌑 endless darkness
👹 child-hunting Yule spirit
🔪 sister's next. It's Anu's shamanic bloodline vs. ancient hunger.
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Snow covered cabins at night under the polar lights.

12-year-old Anu's terrified of the dark and sees ghosts—which is a problem when Arctic Finland’s polar night lasts for weeks and a child-hunting folk monster awakens. Her buried shamanic heritage might help—if she can face the darkness.

CITY OF GHOSTS X 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
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#GauntletChat I hope to catch up! Since being stuck in outline mode made me get a later start. 😬 The month is still young!

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I love the novel journal as coined by James Scott Bell. Journaling briefly about my thoughts on a project every. single. time. before writing each day really helped me through my first drafts when I was starting out writing years ago. It helped me to see that not every writing day has to be great.

Hello #GaunletChat! I'm Starla, writer of mainly middle grade fantasy and horror (but sometimes also YA/adult). My Novel Gauntlet goal is 30k words on a new historical fiction project! 🕯️🖋️

Just getting started here—hi! I write middle grade novels filled with magic, myth, and a strong sense of place. My completed manuscripts include a California-based historical fantasy, a Finnish mythology-filled fantasy, a contemporary folk horror, and a wintry fairytale retelling. Happy to be here!