Publications

You can request a signed book plate for any book I'm in by using the contact form on the website!

Urban Fantasy


Myth Stalker: Wendigo Nights

A late night call from her mentor sends Selina Moonstone on a mission to Canada, determined to track down a Wendigo and exterminate it. Accustomed to facing off with the all too real creatures of Native American lore, Selina discovers the Wendigo is someone close to her, forcing her to change gears from destruction to frantic search for a cure. There's no known way to rid a person of the Wendigo spirit once it has begun the consumption of the victim's soul, a lesson she learned the hard way in her youth.

With her loved one's transition to Wendigo imminent, Selina must fight her own lifelong training as a Myth Stalker and find another way. She gathers a mismatched group of allies, including a charming Sin Eater and a conceited mercenary Cryptid hunter from her past, and embarks on a mission to find a solution before it's too late.

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $17.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now




Nonfiction

The Business of Short Stories: Writing, Submitting, Publishing, and Marketing

Whether you're looking to add short stories to your repertoire as a solo pursuit or in addition to novel writing, The Business of Short Stories covers every aspect from writing to marketing. Learn the dynamics of short story writing, where to focus your editing efforts, how and where to submit, how to handle acceptances and rejections, what to do with reprints, and how to market yourself and your stories online and in person. The information in The Business of Short Stories has been distilled from over a decade of short story publishing experience so you don't have to learn the hard way. You'll find information on submission formatting, cover letters, querying a collection, sending workshop proposals to writing events, business aspects of publishing, how to create a website, SEO, social media, and so much more. This is an invaluable resource for short story writers.

There's never been a better time to get into short stories!

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $16.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now

Universal Link: Books2Read Universal Link

Available in e-book at: Smashwords | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple | Gardners Extended Retail | Odilo | Scribd | Mondadori | Indigo | Angus & Robertson | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR | Amazon ES | Amazon IT | Amazon NL | Amazon JP | Amazon BR | Amazon CA | Amazon MX | Amazon AU | Amazon IN 

Available in paperback at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Walmart

Signed copies available from Author, Author!


Solo Collections

Happy Ghoulidays II

The holidays elicit a mixture of emotions, from joy and revelry to despair and rage. In these stories, we examine the dark side of the holidays with a twisted Easter egg hunt, a desperate St. Patrick's Day curse, a monster that's only visible in the light of fireworks, a mother's guilt on Halloween, and more in this follow up to Happy Ghoulidays that embraces the underlying shadows of our favorite holidays.

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $10.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now









Happy Ghoulidays

Family time can lead to murder and mayhem, especially during the holidays. A turkey with a tale to tell, elves under attack, sorority sisters putting on a killer party, a woman's desperation to save her family, and a stranger ringing in the New Year. These and other tales of woe await you beneath the mistletoe.

Be careful who you offer a kiss. It may be your last.

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $11.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now


Available in paperback at: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR | Amazon ES | Amazon IT | Amazon JP | Amazon CA


Petrichor Gallery & Gifts (Signed Copies)
1146 W. Main St.
Abingdon, VA 24211
276-477-3939


Ghoulidays Book Bundle

Or buy the two-book Ghoulidays bundle that comes with both of the above collections for just $15.00 (signed and shipped) via PayPal: Buy Now










Bruised Souls & Other Torments

Fear resides in the soul.

A welcoming widow with a twisted appetite; a war-time evil lurking behind the face of a child; a father’s love gone horribly wrong; a deadly government solution; a new job with a demonic pay scale; a woman trapped in a mysterious house with no memory of who she is or how she got there. These are a mere glimpse of the terrors that lie in wait in this collection of horror short stories, sure to grip the psyche and torment the soul.

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $14.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now



Available in Paperback at: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR | Amazon ES | Amazon IT | Amazon JP | Amazon CA 

Petrichor Gallery & Gifts (Signed Copies)
1146 W. Main St.
Abingdon, VA 24211
276-477-3939


Blue Sludge Blues & Other Abominations 
A collection of frights, from the psychological to the monstrous. These tales are a reminder of how much we have to fear: a creature lurking in the blue, sludgy depths of a rest area toilet; a friendly neighbor with a dark secret hidden in his basement; a woman with nothing more to lose hellbent on vengeance; a hike gone terribly wrong for three friends; a man cursed to clean up the bodies left behind by an inhuman force. These and other stories prowl the pages of this short story collection.

Buy a signed, shipped copy for $13.00 (which includes shipping) directly from me via PayPal: Buy Now



 Available at the following brick-and-mortar stores:

 Poor Richard's
320 N. Tejon St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719-578-5549

Petrichor Gallery & Gifts (Signed Copies)
1146 W. Main St.
Abingdon, VA 24211
276-477-3939


Anthologies (various authors) in which I have a story

Coming Soon:

Tiny Terrors (Graveside Press)
With my short story Flesh of My Flesh
Release date: April 2025

Haunted Places
With my short story The Only Thing Left
Release date: February 2025

Best of Carnage House Year 1
With my short story Hork
Release date: April 1, 2025



Available Now:


Satan Rides Your Daughter Again
With my short story Horsewomen of the Apocalypse




Carnage House
With my short story Hork

FREE to read at the Carnage House website


Twisted Tropes
With my short story Coulro-psycho

Purchase at: Amazon






Dismember the Coop
With my short story Inside Me

Proceeds go to Solid Rock Teen Centers, Alice Cooper's nonprofit

Purchase at: Amazon


Indecent Magazine
With my short story A Few of His Favorites

Read free at: Indecent




With my short story The Class Ring

Temporarily Out of Print, pending re-release







Particular Passages 2: East Wing


Typehouse Literary

With my short story Coffin Birth

Purchase at: Typehouse Literary (PDF free to download at link or purchase paperback)


Madame Gray's Vault of Gore

With my short story Psychosis


The I's Have It

With my short story Alligator in a Sweatsuit

Purchase at: Amazon






With my short story Of Earth and Fae

Purchase at: Amazon | Apple | Barnes & Noble | Kobo

With my short story Dust Bunnies [From Hell]

Free to Read at their website
Purchase at: Amazon


With my short story Following the Rules

Purchase at: Amazon

With my short story Incident at Ben E's

Purchase at: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Kobo | UBL


With my short story Tailgating

Purchase at: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Kobo | Apple Books | Books2Read | Goodreads







Tales From the Moonlit Path
With my short story Dearest


Vagabond Issue #2
With my short story Shelter From the Storm

Purchase at: Amazon

With my short story Tent City Horror

Purchase at: Amazon Paperback 

With my short story Where I Woke Up

Purchase at: Amazon


With my short story The Importance of Self-Defense

Purchase at: Infinite Realms

With my short story Good Girls Don't Swallow

Purchase at: Amazon


With my short story Stuck With Me

Purchase at: Amazon

With my short story Unwelcome Guests

 Purchase at Amazon
With my short story Faceless

Beneath the Waves: Tales From the Deep


With my short story A Cold and Carnal Hunger

Purchase at: Amazon (paperback and hardcover) | Smashwords (ebook)






Necro-Om-Nom-Nom-Icon
With my stories: Message of the Night Gaunts and The Dating Game

Purchase at: Amazon






With my flash story The Rejection

Free to read at: Fabula Argentea
With my short story Faceless


Space and Time Magazine
Issue #128
With my short story, Let's Play a Game

Purchase at: Space and Time
(Scroll down to single issue if you just want this one. Select "current issue.")

Grandma's Leather Sofa - Audible Recording
Originally published in Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things (below)
Read by Hallie Ricardo


Purchase at: Amazon



The Literary Hatchet
With my short story, Salvation Lottery

 Read for free at the website (click on "Issues then #16)

Print copy available for purchase at: CreateSpace | Amazon


With my short story, For Love of the Hunt

 Purchase at: Amazon
With my short story, Shifting Sands

Purchase at: Dark Moon Digest | Amazon




With my short story, Metamorphosis


Volume 2, Issue 2
With my flash story, Grandma's Leather Sofa

Purchase at: E & GJ Press | Amazon

Once Upon a Scream
With my short story, The Black Undeath

Purchase at: Amazon | CreateSpace







 The Flash Fiction Press
With my flash fiction piece, Nice Night for a Splash
March 22, 2016

Free to read on the website.
Devolution Z
With my short story, Blue Sludge Blues

Purchase at: Amazon (print) | Amazon (ebook)



With my short story, The Blue Mist

Purchase at: Amazon | Smashwords | Create Space | Barnes & Noble | Kobo





With my piece, Awakening

Proceeds of the Amazon exclusive ebook will be donated to Elevate Life and Art studios, an amazing youth organization in Asheville, NC.

Purchase at: Amazon

Accompanying album, Of Mist and Magic, by Really Slow Motion available at: Amazon | iTunes


With my piece, Querying Your Way to Publication


Purchase at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Smashwords




With my story, set to Turning Point

This anthology is dedicated in memory of Tina Downey, our dearest friend, fellow storyteller and firm believer that life is good… 

 All proceeds of the TREE OF LIFE ebook will benefit the Downey Education Fund set up for Tina's children. 


Purchase at: Amazon

Accompanying album, Tree of Life, by audiomachine, available at: Amazon


With my story, Spes et Libertas

All proeeds of the Composers for Relief album and Beyond the Binding companion ebook will go to Gawad Kalinga ("give care") and GVSP (Gualandi Volunteer Service Program), to support the relief efforts for victims of the deadliest natural disaster in Philippines' history, Super Typhoon Yolanda. 

Purchase at: Amazon | iTunes | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords

Accompanying album, Composers for Relief, available at: iTunes | Amazon |  CDBaby | Spotify





You can find my author page at www.amazon.com/author/shannonlawrence

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IWSG - Words & Photos

Image
It's the first Wednesday of November, so time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Created by Alex J. Cavanaugh , the IWSG gives writers a place to express their insecurities and lend support to their fellow writers. The co-hosts this month are Diedre Knight , Lisa Buie Collard , Kim Lajevardi , and JQ Rose . The optional question this month: What creative activity do you engage in when you're not writing? I love photography. Some day I should really take a class in it, but time is not limitless. I can't even pretend to know how many photos I will take when I go to England and Scotland next summer, but plan on being inundated! Some photos from the last year, a mix of coast, desert, and mountain: I had other things to talk about, but you know what? I'm leaving it there for this month. May you find your Muse.
Read more

IWSG - Cliffhangers

Image
I almost forgot! And then I was sitting in a meeting and remembered. So late, but here.  It's time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group! Created by Alex J. Cavanaugh , the IWSG serves to create a community where writers lend each other support.  The optional question: Do you write cliffhangers at the end of your stories? Are they a turn-off to you as a reader and/or writer? I don't really do cliffhangers, no. However, in horror things can be left open to translation or hinting at something, so I might do that at times. In novel/urban fantasy form, I wrap up the big things and present something at the end that leads into the next story, so that may be considered a bit of a cliffhanger, but I do think it's important to wrap up the main threads of that novel by the end. Without further ado (because I'm totally still in my meeting and writing this, lol), my stats for the month of November: 0 new submissions (no tiiiiiiime) 1 rejection (Note I got an acceptance TODAY,...
Read more

IWSG - Ghost Stories & Prioritization

Image
Hi! I'm late posting this today, because work kicked my butt yesterday! I worked almost 13 hours straight, and my lovely husband made dinner and brought it to me while I worked. Anyway, it's IWSG time! The Insecure Writer's Support Group is a way for us to share our insecurities with each other, seek and gain support, and create a community. It was created by Alex J. Cavanaugh . Anyone can join; simply click on Alex's name and put your name on the linky list on the IWSG tab. The co-hosts this month are Nancy Gideon , Jennifer Lane , Jacqui Murray , and Natalie Aguirre . Please stop by and thank them for helping out today! The optional question this month is Ghost stories fit right in during this month. What's your favorite classic ghostly tale? Tell us about it and why it sends a chill up your spine. Not so much a classic tale, but The Others is a really good, more contemporary ghost story that feels ageless. The twist was well done, and it's haunting in a diff...
Read more