Contemporary Fiction Author, Infrequent Blogger & Retired Clown

Author: Shannon

I have become one of those people.

I have become one of those people.

Not so long ago I was the girl who emphatically said, “I will never own an iPhone! Who would want their phone, iPod and camera wrapped into one device? Then if something happens to it you’re totally screwed!” So long good friend. Flash forward to [Read more…]

Pack up the kids, Hurricane University of Phoenix is headed this way!

Pack up the kids, Hurricane University of Phoenix is headed this way!

So I’m watching the news today and I see that the Atlantic coast has its first named tropical system of the season, Arlene. Now, Arlene is a perfectly suitable name for a woman of leisure with bad roots, seven teeth and nine cats who lives [Read more…]

Inspiration thy name is “Sports Night”

Inspiration thy name is “Sports Night”

  When it comes to writing, you can get inspiration from just about anywhere. I have a number of writing idols, many of whom are novelists like Carl Hiaasen, Joshilyn Jackson and Chris Bohjalian. But I also take inspiration from other types of writers who [Read more…]

I was in the kitchen, cleaning a dish. I heard it, so I came out.

I was in the kitchen, cleaning a dish. I heard it, so I came out.

This is the not at all exaggerated story about how my apartment complex would have been engulfed in flames tonight had it not been for the heroics of one Michael Huffman…and the entire St. Johns County Fire Department. This story is also a PSA announcement [Read more…]