Shannon Stacey

Well…between illness and chaos, I’m so far behind it ain’t even funny. This week: husband’s birthday yesterday, the short kid’s birthday Wednesday, Thanksgiving Thursday, and going north on Friday for the weekend. So my catching up is running smack into a fresh week’s insanity and I feel like I’m in some kind of demented time [...]

I am sick. Wicked sick. I’ve been sick for three days now, but it’s finally kicked my ass. Partly because—whether due to fever, coughing, whatever—I’m not sleeping. I’m accustomed to lying in bed for at least an hour before I fall asleep. I’m not accustomed to being awake fifty minutes of every hour after that. [...]

Comedy is hard. I’m working on a funny novella right now—it’s not what I should be working on, but I have a hard time keeping the light, comedic side of the muse repressed, so sometimes I have to let it loose or it starts creeping into stuff that’s not supposed to be funny. Being so [...]

Once upon a time there was a very nice woman with many messy children who bought a vacuum. This vacuum was advertised as having all the features she loved in that appliance, and several of her friends plus some online reviews recommended the Virtuous Vacuum. Well, Mrs. Smith took money from her household budget and [...]

So Amazon’s got their Best of 2006 thing going on. Considering I’ve heard from authors who would know that Amazon is greatly overestimated as far as book sales, I don’t put too much stock in these things, but I’m a sucker for a “Best of” list. And an author should never miss an opportunity to [...]