by Shannon Anderson | Dec 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thank you to William Morrow and Net Galley for a digital ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. I knew I’d love this story of a surprise uncovered by a DNA test because my husband found a surprise in his family tree, though it wasn’t quite as...
by Shannon Anderson | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently read an article on the Instagram stories from Wit and Delight that made me think. “It was called “15 Things You Can Do Instead of Comparing Yourself to Others.” I won’t recap all that was in the article, but it’s definitely...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dogs have a way of wrapping themselves around our hearts. With their unbridled love for their people and the way they live their lives with boundless joy, they show us how to live. When they leave us, especially sooner than they should, they leave our hearts and our...
by Shannon Anderson | May 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Now and then my husband reflects on the military friends he’s lost. Most of them I knew only from stories he told me of things they did or said. He remembers everything, but what I remember most about his time in the U.S. Marine Corps was his deployment to the...
by Shannon Anderson | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
To research the setting for my historical novel, my husband and I took a long weekend trip to Charleston, South Carolina several years ago. Since I’m from the South, I was anticipating uncomfortably hot, humid weather and lots of snakes as we traipsed around...
by Shannon Anderson | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m near the end of my manuscript…again. Several years ago, I completed the original manuscript, work-shopped it at a conference, revised it with two other writers, and started the query process to find an agent. So this is the second time I’ve...
