Hi, I’m Shannon. I’m so happy you’re here.
I am a teacher, a reader, and a writer. Or is it writer, reader, teacher? Well, no matter. Those three areas intertwine and define my life and my path. I hope you’ll stick around to read what I’ve written here and rejoice with me when I announce the publication of my first book and all the ones that come after that.
READ MY LATEST BLOG POSTS
Down a Delicious Writing Research Rabbit Hole
A couple of days ago, I was working on my book, which is historical women's fiction set in 1868 Charleston, South Carolina. It's a tough era to write about because not much detail about the way people lived during that time is readily available. To find what I'm...
Pirates Attack!
Today on a Facebook writing group I participate in, the moderator asked us to share some fun or funny lines from our WIPs. My books is rather serious, but there are some fun passages. The lines I chose today are part of a scene that includes two little boys playing...
Hopes for Covid19 Aftermath
Although right now the pandemic that is covid19 feels like it will never end, I've been trying to figure out the good I want to remember from this unprecedented event in world history. I'm still learning and making sense of what is happening, but some things have...
Coping during Covid19
I'm sitting at my desk at the start of week 3 of the Safer at Home order in Wisconsin. Apart from an underlying uneasiness of this virus making its way into our towns and cities, being isolated and dealing with the unknown feels familiar. To be honest, the first two...
April’s Blizzard: (Part 2)
After my neighbors (I thank God for them!) helped me dig out, I went to the grocery store and restocked my food supply and spent a lot of time on the computer looking at pictures of the snow on social media and watching the weather to get snow totals. (We ended up...
The Blizzard of April 2018 (Part 1)
By mid-April in the South, temperatures routinely reach the 70s and 80s. Dogwoods, red buds, and azaleas bloom, grass turns green, and leaves green up the spectral branches of trees. To get my fill of warm weather that is still to come in Wisconsin, I usually watch...