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#SATurday: Content Disclosures for Novels

#SATurday: Content Disclosures for Novels This past Wednesday, my content disclosure tree for Minutes Before Sunset released by Clean Teen Publishing. What is a content disclosure tree? Well, I’ll leave that up to my publisher to define on their website. (Click here to read the definition. Click here to read my full content disclosure tree.) I suggest… Continue reading #SATurday: Content Disclosures for Novels

Guest Blogger · Miscellaneous

#MondayBlogs: The Importance of Goosebumps

Intro: Today's guest blogger deserves a huge round of applause. Not only does he spread the love for reading via his blog, November Notebook, he also teaches English to middle school students. In addition, Grant Goodman is talking about a series of books that filled my childhood, and I'm sure you're familiar with these novels… Continue reading #MondayBlogs: The Importance of Goosebumps

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March Ketchup

March’s Ketchup Another month has passed, and during the month of March, we were able to meet more guest bloggers, read more news, and discover additional websites for writers and readers. For those of you just now checking in this month, Ketchup actually means “catch up”. At the end of every month, I write these… Continue reading March Ketchup

Author Announcements

Author Announcements

Author Announcements: Yesterday was my two-year anniversary of blogging here on ShannonAThompson.com. For that reason, I would like to thank each and every one of you for liking, sharing, and commenting on my website as we move forward into the future. A special thanks goes out to my top five commenters – Charles Yallowitz, Mishka… Continue reading Author Announcements

Miscellaneous · Writing Tips

Why Are Parents Dead in Fiction?

Announcements: ShannonAThompson.com hit 18,000 followers! As a surprise, I shared the meaning behind all the chapter titles in Take Me Tomorrow on my Facebook page. Every chapter title is actually a direct quote from the chapter you’re about to read. This is to represent the clairvoyant drug, tomo, since it allows takers to experience the future. For… Continue reading Why Are Parents Dead in Fiction?

Miscellaneous · Writing Tips

When Characters Say Too Much or Too Little

Announcements: I have a couple announcements today. First, I would like to thank The Opinionated Woman’s Musings and Books for Fun for nominating ShannonAThompson.com for the Lovely Blog Award. I nominated six blogs on my Facebook page to keep it going! In other news, P.S. Bartlett interviewed me, and we discussed my writing process as… Continue reading When Characters Say Too Much or Too Little

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Books That Changed My Childhood

Announcements: First, I would like to thank Between the Lines for nominating ShannonAThompson.com for a collection of wonderful awards, but second, I would like to thank the two latest reviewers of Take Me Tomorrow:  The Modest Verge wrote, “The characters in this novel are just as complex, and just as complicated as The Timely Death… Continue reading Books That Changed My Childhood

Miscellaneous · Writing Tips

What I’ve Learned Rewriting a Seven-Year-Old Novel

What I’ve Learned Rewriting a Seven-Year-Old Novel As many of you know, I am currently rewriting November Snow – my very first publication. Although I started writing it when I was 11, it didn’t get published until I was 16. I took it off the shelves for many years, and it is basically off the shelves… Continue reading What I’ve Learned Rewriting a Seven-Year-Old Novel

Author Announcements

Happy Paperback!

Announcements: I would like to thank an Industry Leader in Cheerleading News - @cheerUPDATES – for sharing the first quote from Take Me Tomorrow on Twitter (with a slight, creative change.) The word-for-word quote from the novel is "As much as I didn’t want to recognize it, we had grown into one another somewhere along… Continue reading Happy Paperback!