{"id":3531,"date":"2012-10-02T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2012-09-16T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T19:58:55","slug":"the-star-child-blog-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":"The Star Child Blog Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Star-Child.final1_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Star-Child.final1_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Star-Child.final1_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Star-Child.final1_-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Star-Child.final1_.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s guest on Celtic Connexions is Kellen St. James from The Star Child. Welcome Kellen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hi Melanie, thanks so much for having me on your blog today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong> Well I&#8217;m sure everyone is anxious to find out more about you so let&#8217;s get started. Your bio says you grew up being unwanted, ordinary and slightly geeky. I know it&#8217;s painful to talk about but can you tell us why you always felt that way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Well, who hasn&#8217;t, you know what I mean? In my case, I always had my head stuck in a book, I&#8217;ve always been a reader and pretty much lived in the library. They called me a prodigy too. I&#8217;ve always done well in school. Graduate Yale at eighteen and guess they call you geek, now. I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m just a normal guy, you know?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The unwanted part? That&#8217;s easy. Stephen, my messed up father, kept shipping me off to different places like boarding school in England and college at Yale when I hadn&#8217;t reached college age. What else am I supposed to think? Then that turd for a brother of mine, Roger, verbally abused me. Didn&#8217;t really give me that sort of warm fuzzy feeling\u2026 It wasn&#8217;t exactly <em>Family Ties<\/em>\u00a0if you know what I mean. I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s painful, it just is what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us anything the dreams you&#8217;ve had for these last eleven years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Freaky. That&#8217;s what they are.\u00a0It&#8217;s the same dream, over and over again. I met this girl on the beach when I was six and she just kept\u2026 appearing in my dreams every night. It used to worry me. I thought I was losing it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After a while, I realized that those dreams were far better than my reality and I started looking forward to them, you know? At least in my dreams I wasn&#8217;t being treated like crap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is this girl who comes to you in your dreams?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff201a\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The same girl that I met all those years ago on the beach. This girl named Calienta. I can&#8217;t explain it but we have this weird connection going on. From the first moment we met, I knew that we would be best friends. She made me feel\u2026 important. Like I mattered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your reaction when she turned up with her tales of a prophecy that involved you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That she was out of her mind! Seriously, what would you have thought yourself, Melanie? I felt like I&#8217;d been played. She just shows up and tells me all sorts of things about this prophecy and expected me to take them at face value.<\/p>\n<p>Where was her proof? I assumed she was hiding dead bodies underground and I was next. Of course, I ended up trusting her, but, let&#8217;s just say I wasn&#8217;t going to believe her that easily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Is there anything else you would like to\/can share with the readers of The Star Child?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All I can tell you is that there&#8217;s this messed up Celtic god out there with a twisted sense of honor, psychotic focus on his father, whose running with Arawn, the Lord of Faerie. His sick dream is to bring the Earth to darkness, I mean total darkness. For whatever reason, I&#8217;m supposed to be able to stop this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">How? I couldn&#8217;t tell you. It&#8217;s not like I have any &#8220;powers&#8221; or anything. 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