Award-winning and bestselling author Shannon Delany has always loved myths, legends, fairytales and folktales and expressing herself with art and writing. In 2008 she won the first-ever cellphone novel contest in the western world with a greatly abbreviated version of her popular paranormal YA story 13 to Life. That win launched her debut series with St. Martin’s Press which quickly went from three books to five, was translated into a half-dozen languages, and received interest from movie producers. That series did so well that Shannon was contracted for her Weather Witch trilogy. Shannon then teamed up with author Judith Graves and rescued Leap Books, a small and faltering publishing company, allowing them to publish other people’s books for a while. Shannon attended and spoke at national writers’ conferences and conventions, gave workshops and talks at bookstores and libraries and picked up work for a highly-respected international agency specializing in ghostwriting where she specializes in helping trauma survivors tell their unique stories, in part as a result of her degrees in education and Genocide Studies. When Shannon’s agent won back her rights to all of her books from St. Martin’s Press shortly before he retired, it allowed Shannon to begin reworking her books in the way she always wanted, including expansions and special features. The world she started building almost two decades ago is now expanding into a broad universe allowing her to continue adding stories and characters and weaving worlds together in new and inventive ways. She continues selectively ghostwriting, book coaching, and enjoys speaking to groups about writing and the power of creativity and the power of embracing and sharing your particular voice. Find and follow her on her social media (Facebook and Facebook, Insta, or TikTok), and through subscribing to her newsletter, Frequently Infrequent. Find Shannon’s books here, and limited and special editions and merch here.