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Fast Friday Indie Interviews: Shannon Peel

Shannon Peel

Tell me about you, Shannon.

Shannon Peel is a marketer and author living in South Surrey with her two teenagers, one of whom keeps her on her toes with adventures in bad decision making. She leads a boring existence living and working in a 10x10 cell called an apartment. She has made a couple of interesting friends at work, both of whom no one else can see. Life of an author is fraught with hazards, just this morning she burnt her tongue on a hot cup of coffee. You can find her tweeting at @thirteennovel or stalking people on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thiteen.shannon.peel. 

Yes Thirteen is spelled wrong and no she did not do that on purpose – This is why writers need editors. If you hurry you will probably find her complaining about the lack of a coffee boy and lack of a day job.

Tell me about your current Book:

When foreign soldiers invade the Vancouver area, a 13-year-old anti-establishmentarian must figure out how to get to his dad’s apartment, or else lose him forever.

Think the movie Red Dawn meets reality and hints at 1984 for future books in the series.

What are you working on now?  

Book 2. At least I am supposed to be working on the sequal, however, I seem to be distracted by promoting book 1, social media, looking for that coffee boy and day job I mentioned earlier. Oh yeah and we can’t forget bailing my son out every once in awhile all the while taking my daughter shopping to try and get her out of her solitary confinement cell called a bedroom.

What is your favorite beverage while you write? 

Coffee – is there anything else? I do own a lot of David’s Tea flavours, still, Coffee is numero uno in my world. Just need that damn coffee boy to make it for me and bring me a nice hot steaming mug every morning.

What is your favorite Website?

At the moment it seems to be linkedin, Monster, Indeed, as I try to find a marketing gig to pay the bills. Really if I had to pick something other than the obvious… Netflix. I don’t own a TV and I can’t afford the movies. Have you seen the price of a theatre ticket lately? Wowzers…. No wonder all the single men just want you to come over to watch Netflix and Chill… =O  Oh where have the gentlemen gone?

Links:

•    Email:  Thirteenreviews@gmail.com
•    Amazon:  Shannon Peel
•    Blog:  www.shannonpeelblog.com
•    Facebook: www.facebook.com/thiteen.shannon.peel
•    Twitter: www.twitter.com/thirteennovel
•    Website: www.shannonpeel.com

Steven King on Short Stories

I am putting together a collection of short stories.

 
--I encourage everyone to write them.

Quotes of the Week

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
—Joseph Brodsky

Boys think girls are like books, if the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
—M. Monroe

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches of the same tree.
—W. B. Yeats

I'll give you the whole secret of short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
—O. Henry

The ideal way to write is as if oneself and one's readers were already dead.
—Nadine Gordimer

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
—G.K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten
—Chesterton

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
—William Stryon

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
—Einstein

Art That Inspires

Read This Week: Blackout

Blackout by Connie Willis

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.

--I really enjoyed this book. I am planning a time travel book and like the various angles on the sub-genre.