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J.D. Stanley

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Born

in Canada

Website

https://jdstanley.com/

Twitter

jdstanleywrites

Genre

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

Influences

Mary Stewart, J.R.R. Tolkien
Colleen McCullough, Robert A. Heinlein
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Member Since

August 2016

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JD Stanley is an award winning historical speculative fantasy author and solitary Bardic Druid following the OBOD teaching path. JD honed voice and audio editing chops in the 80s as a radio announcer and studio engineer before embracing a lifelong guy-behind-the-curtain freelance career as a commercial and content copywriter, voiceover artist, proofreader, ghostwriter and script doctor. Landed Entertainment director Junga Song once called JD “the greatest writer nobody’s ever heard of”.

The fictional worlds of Mary Stewart, Colleen McCullough, Tolkien, Heinlein, Cervantes and Shakespeare bent JD’s world perception into a magical place of unlikely heroes, quests, the interconnectedness of past and future and that though bad things happen to r ...more

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	The Seer (Bronan the Druid, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017 — 6 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
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned before, but I’m a bit obsessed with Little Free Libraries. You know the ones – those super cute wooden boxes scattered around neighbourhoods, filled with books waiting to be discovered. Every time I spot one, it gives me a secret thrill to have stumbled across such a hidden treasure.

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“It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was.”
― J.D. Stanley, Blood Runner: Sumerian mythology takes a bite out of vampire lore

tags: magic, nature, sundown

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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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“When you have found the shrubbery, then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest ... with a herring”
― Tall Knight of Ni (played by Michael Palin) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

tags: michael-palin, mony-python

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love

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