Shayna Grissom Writes

writing

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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