Shayna Grissom Writes

books

  • Tis the Season

    One of the most romantic things my husband has ever done is to whisk me away to LA where we stayed on the supposedly haunted Queen Mary. From there, we went to LACMA and saw Guillermo Del Toro’s At Home With Monster’s exhibit. This year isn’t so grand, it’s simply spinning a wheel of horror Read more

  • Swept away

    The advice of all writing advice, the one we all know in our soul to be true but don’t get around to nearly as much. I don’t need to say it, if you’re a writer and you read the title, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Now, before you assume I’m a writer here Read more

  • Husk!

    Husk is a standalone that comes after launching a series, so I fully expect my husband to read half of it before saying, “I don’t know what this has to do with The Dredes…” He’s furious that I won’t allow him to leave a review on my books. They are the first pieces of fiction Read more

  • A book a month

    I didn’t just crash into Indie-publishing with two books and a third coming out next week. This looks weird without context and I realize I haven’t given any context as to why I’ve pulled a book out of my ass every two weeks. I touched on it a little bit in previous posts, particularly The Read more

  • Dance, Monkey

    Since the dawn of social media, writers were reassured by their agents that a platform wasn’t required.** Was it nice to have a built-in fanbase? Yeah! But it wasn’t a requirement because the publisher would tend to the marketing on behalf of the author. In the last few years it’s been a growing concern for Read more

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