Shayna Grissom Writes

fiction

  • Inspiration

    It’s not where inspiration comes from, but rather when. I have four main folders on my desktop. “Working Drafts” and “Published” are fairly self-explanatory, the other two are easily understood if you’ve seen The Princess Bride. “The Dragon’s Hoard” is where my finished works go. Before my Self-Publishing era that file was beyond depressing to… Read more

  • Indie Summary for 2025

    TL:DR Past blog posts: After wrestling the rights to The Dredes series out of my failing publisher’s hands, I went on a Self-Pub spree and rapid released horror books that have been stacking over the years. And here’s how it went… I started with The Night Dredes in August and The Day Dredes two weeks… Read more

  • The Ivy Noose and that time I signed with a homophobe

    Yeah… It’s exactly how it sounds. Let’s make things clear. I’m a Bi, Pan, Queer, whatever. Maybe it’s because I’m an elder queer or maybe it’s because I’m innately stubborn and dislike labels of any kind, but I grew up in a slightly less accepting time. I didn’t know what being a “dyke” meant in… Read more

  • The Cuckoo’s Nest

    There are many reasons why I write, but one of the biggest reasons is the little high I get from living in my own little worlds for a time. No matter how many books I write, I get that feeling of “Oh this is so fucking good!” and I just get so high on my… Read more

  • Inspired

    Ah, nothing like a good rainy Seattle outing to the largest Oddity and Curiosity expose to further inspire the macabre. I’m telling you, between my husband’s Horror Film Extravaganza, the steadfast diet of horror books, I thought I was full of dead things and weird stories, but this month has been bountiful. I took a… Read more

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