Seastar: A Private Life of Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen

Pamela Jekel

Jul 2023 · Pro Audio Voices · Narrated by Gill Mills

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SEASTAR is a swashbuckling historical novel that chronicles the adventures of red-haired, green-eyed beautiful Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen. The saga passionately brings to life Anne's rebellious Southern girlhood, her sensual awakening in the arms of a buccaneer, and the courageous mastery of her own ship and crew. Pamela Jekel's sparkling tale transports you to the exotic Charles Town of the precolonial South; to teeming Port Royal, Jamaica, and to the infamous pirate island of New Providence for duels, plundered treasures, and torrid love scenes on palm-fringed cays. America's only female pirate, Anne Bonny was a legend in her own time; her style of living and loving was extraordinary, capturing the imagination of all who knew or heard of her. She was so notorious that her story has become as famous as those of rogues like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Calico Jack, who ruled the Caribbean Sea during America's most adventurous and colorful age. Anne was one of them, untamed and as unpredictable as the pirates she loved. A sailor, a fighter, a renegade, and a thief, Anne Bonny was a woman beyond compare. The New York Times bestselling author Pamela Jekel brings us "...the rip-roaring real-life adventures of Anne Bonny, pirate queen of the Caribbean. She dresses like a man, fights like a tiger, and lives in constant danger!" Booklist. "A romantic heroine with guts and integrity", Publishers Weekly. A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Selection, originally published in hardcover and trade fiction by Crown Publishers and paperback by Zebra Books, printed in eight foreign languages, including Braille, Large Print Editions, and now, Kindle, Seastar was a national bestseller, a Waldenbooks bestseller, and is Pamela Jekel's first novel.

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Pamela Jekel is a nationally-known novelist, well regarded for her historical sagas, four of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Her thirteen books were published in both hardcover and paperback, translated into sixteen foreign languages, and also published in Braille and Large Print Editions. Jekel grew up in California, inspired by her father, William Jekel, who was a successful Western watercolorist and muralist. Working at his feet as a child, she was encouraged by his belief that "Art is the only way to reinvent life according to our own specifications." Jekel received her formal training at UCLA, Old Dominion University, and the University of Virginia, obtained a Ph.D. in English, and has both written and painted all her life. Her works have received Best Historic Fiction awards by the National Booksellers Association and the Western Booksellers Association. Also an artist in oils and watercolors, her paintings can be seen at www.pamelajekel.com. Jekel has lived in many different locales and states, and she currently lives in Georgia. Gill Mills is a dramatically trained former BBC broadcaster and journalist with over 20 years of experience.She loves to bring stories to life for authors and brings her own novel writing experience to each job.She has her own studio and can visit London studios if required.She has narrated over 20 fiction and non-fiction titles for Audible, including several book series. Genres include fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, children's, YA, historical, thriller, mystery, biography, and self-help. She has drawn on multiple accents and age ranges in order to bring these stories to life.Some past non-audiobook clients include Coca-Cola, Microsoft Teams, Barclays Bank, Thomson Reuters, Literacy Planet, the UN, Oxford Medical, Spotify, Hyundai, Fitch ratings and many more. Warm, intelligent, engaging, versatile. Fast turnaround. Can lend a knowledgeable and engaging tone to information/education/corporate content or bring some fun energy to animation, explainers or live events. Slight NW accent, but it usually only inflects her warm, rich and intelligent British delivery.Can perform multiple British accents including Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Country, Cockney, RP, BBC, estuary, South East. International includes general American, Southern American, Spanish, French, German, general Eastern Europe, Australian.She has voiced-over entertainment and factual TV shows for C4, BBC, ITV & digital channels.She began her career editing magazines, writing columns, and researching for TV, before moving into presenting programmes for BBC Radio 1 and Radio Scotland. It was at this time she started doing voiceovers for the BBC. She then established her own content creation company and was a pioneer of the then-fledgling medium of podcasting. She continued to provide radio shows for various networks during this time before writing three novels and returning to voiceover work when she built her own home studio, drawing on her years of expertise and training at the BBC. She now works full-time in audiobook narration and voiceover.

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