Bring Dancing in the Ghost Light to Bookshelves! I'm leaping right off the cliff into the crowdfunding void! Learn More about Dancing in the Ghost Light on Backerkit! I've signed a contract with an editor! Crystal Yang at Rabbit with a Red Pen is taking the novel and marking it up. Once it's back, I'll be ready to make the move from the hard drive to the book stores. What does your support for the campaign do? Pays for editing support for this and other novels in the series pipeline. Pays for...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Chapter One All right friends - a new chapter (literally) has begun on patreon. Dancing in the Ghost Light gives you a touch of downtown SLC, mixed with middle-aged sapphic angst, cross-generational found family and community, and queer joy in the shadow of the Temple. The $10 tier gives you access to monthly chapters and a thank you gift. At $5 you'll get character breakdowns and playlist rambles. $2 keeps the gears oiled. Read Chapter One on Patreon I'm so excited to start sharing this with...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Changes on Patreon I'm adding a new reward to the $10 tier and looking to expand the page into a place for my essays and more. Join Me on Patreon! What? There's Art for Dancing in the Ghost Light? Publishing is terrifying. I don't care if you are going for self-publishing or hoping for something small press or traditional. It. Is Terrifying. You've got to put yourself out there and promote yourself and know that in the end, you have to believe harder than anyone else does. But, it also helps...
22 days ago • 5 min read
September Scribbles Let's start with the small, but important news: the website is finally live! shaunakayleenwrites.com Welcome to Bi Awareness Month September is a special, special time. It's the one month a year when us Bisexuals are actively visible. Okay, that joke mostly only works in the Bi+ community. See, the harsh truth is that when you are bisexual, it can be hard to "see" us. When we're in differing gender relationships, we can appear "straight" and in same gender relationships,...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Let's Scribble All Over the 4th! I’m sitting in the cafe at Under the Umbrella on the 4th of July. Today is my usual day to hang out - I do a drop in TTRPG game on the first Saturday of the month from 11:30-3:00 and then I’ve got my writers group meetup from 3:00-5:00. Because it’s the 4th, I didn’t expect a lot of people to show for the game, but I’m still sitting here with the Daggerheart materials and my dice and kind of sad I don’t get to make characters that can fight the machine. Yeah,...
4 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Scribblers! As I write this, Pride events for June are starting to ramp up and I want to remind you to take some time to really celebrate what is out there. I’ve got some history below for you to read through and a quick excerpt from Dancing in the Ghost Light, featuring the cast of Cat’s Eye at Pride. Quick real talk: May kinda sucked and my being sick for a bunch of it is why this is late. Instead of rehashing all of it, I'm going to spend our precious internet time this month talking...
5 months ago • 11 min read
April Chaos Brings May Excitement Hello Scribblers! May Day crept up on me - despite my paying careful attention to its approach. Suddenly, it was May 1st and I found myself unprepared for the May Day actions of the weekend. It's Beltane and International Workers Day and both matter a lot to me - so do me a favor and take some time to read up on these days! This update is a bit chaotic this time around. Have fun! ;) April for me was all about Moon Joy. The collective dopamine given to us by...
6 months ago • 9 min read
Hello Rejection Anxiety, My Old Friend Hello Scribblers! They say that April Showers bring May Flowers, but I’m honestly not sure that’s going to happen in Utah. Even with the late winter/early spring storms, the snowpack is down and things already feel warm and dry. It’s weird to still be figuring out how I want to send info and talk about my writing and the world around me. I’ve had some feedback that some of the newsletters have been harder to read in email or on different sites, and thank...
7 months ago • 8 min read
March is Coming In Like a Lion... at least ... politically. Patreon! Welcome back! February has been an interesting mix of joy and frustration and a heavy dose of grief as we said goodbye to my mom's cat and remembered my late sister-in-law. But! I celebrated my 47th birthday this month. My fiance and I (whose birthday is the day before mine) headed down to Zion's for a couple of days. Our birthdays tend to fall around President's day so you can thank Stephanie for having the day off if you...
8 months ago • 7 min read