Shannon’s Blog


  • Patience Obtains

    For the past few years, I have had a quotation from St. Teresa taped on my desk: Patience obtains all things. I took it in the way of a hope rather than a promise. Now, with the publication of The Time Door, I have been thinking about patience, and what it obtains. I began work…

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  • The Most Dangerous Words

    The most dangerous words are the ones that you think you understand. This is a trap of old books, where familiar words often hold strange meanings.

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  • Charles Dickens’ First Drafts

    We are reading Dickens’ first drafts.

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  • “God Knows”

    And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”.

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  • Contract Signed!

    I am pleased to announce that I have signed a book contract with Enclave Publishing.

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