Shannon Muir's Blog: Shannon Muir - Writer

Did you miss reading “Tropical Terror” or “Hidden History” before the anthologies they were in went out of print? Did you like “Tragic Like a Torch Song” and wondered what happened next? SECRETS IN THE SPOTLIGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIVE SHORT STORIES contains reprints of “Tragic Like a Torch Song,” “Pretty Like a Picture,” “Tropical Terror,” and “Hidden History,” and the all-new “Swing With It,” that picks up where “Tragic Like a Torch Song” leaves off. Be prepared to travel to post prohibition Chicago in the 1930s on the verge of exploding into the swing era, a fictional large city in the 1950s, 1980s Hawaii, and a modern-day treasure hunt around the globe.

Available at select e-book retailers: https://books2read.com/u/bQQ696

THE GHOST PAPERS from Emby Press (including my story “Ghost of the Past”) is now available on Amazon! Check out this story perfect for the spooky season that blends mystery and ghosts.

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Lightspeed Electroid Albegas is a single disc with all 45 episodes of the series included. The release only has Japanese audio with English subtitles.
Lightspeed Electroid Albegas
English Publisher: Discotek Media
Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: May 28, 2024
The series is set in Japan, during a time where an alien race called Dellinger with ambitions of capturing the Earth for their leader begin…

Anime Blu-ray Review: Lightspeed Electroid Albegas

Over the years, I have been appearing on LET’S VOLTRON: THE OFFICIAL VOLTRON PODCAST, talking about a number of topics related to the show.

This year, as part of the 40th anniversary of the property, I helped review the 1984 series episode “There’ll Be A Royal Wedding,” a puzzling title (which we do talk about) which is INCREDIBLY significant to the property as it heralded the return of beloved character Sven…

… but it wasn’t the case in the original Japanese GOLION.

Follow along the hosts Marc Morell and Greg Tyler, along with myself, break down the differences between the two episodes and Sven’s lasting impact on the mythos of VOLTRON.

My site shannon-muir.com remains my personal blog.

I did cut down my book blog activities to concentrate on work and later grad school in Library and Information Science.

In the last few years, I started shannonmuirauthor.com to make it easier to find information on my books. My old book blog posts are now there as well.

With the release of CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER, I have reconfigured The Pulp and Mystery Shelf site as shannonmuirauthor.com.

All The Pulp and Mystery Shelf links will redirect to this site, as the content pages are still housed there live.

My site shannon-muir.com remains my author website, where I also blog a lot about animation.

If you want to follow the items I’ve done specifically in the New Pulp and Mystery genres, Shannon Muir’s The Pulp and Mystery Shelf has those details at pulpandmysteryshelf.com

Also, I’ve started to become more interested in library science. To that end, the Shannon Muir’s Infinite House of Books site has been revisited and expanded to start including interesting observations on Library Science and Information Science in the near future, thereby truly embracing the definition of “Infinite House of Books”: infinitehouseofbooks.com

Lastly, if you are looking for snippets of creative works in progress, which I rarely post anymore, check out my Tumblr at shannonmuirauthor.tumblr.com

My site shannon-muir.com remains my author website, where I also blog a lot about animation.

If you want to follow the items I’ve done specifically in the New Pulp and Mystery genres, Shannon Muir’s The Pulp and Mystery Shelf has those details at pulpandmysteryshelf.com

Also, I’ve started to become more interested in library science. To that end, the Shannon Muir’s Infinite House of Books site has been revisited and expanded to start including interesting observations on Library Science and Information Science in the near future, thereby truly embracing the definition of “Infinite House of Books”: infinitehouseofbooks.com

This is a sample of part of a larger work in progress. Copyright 2022 Shannon Muir. All rights reserved. Originally posted September 10, 2022.

She’d tried to rewrite her life. A few key omissions here and there would not hurt anyone. Everyone believed her to be shy and mousy and never having had a relationship in her life. Everyone around her tried to match her up with someone they thought was perfect. He indeed had been perfect. Everything she could have hoped for, so she kept up appearances and never told him the truth. She did not tell him her intimate experiences; she wanted a fresh start from all that.

But the forces that drove her made her impatient. She began to hunger for physical contact, craved it like a drug. Worse, she wanted her body to feel full again, heavy and stretching with life kicking inside her. No one that knew her now outside of her own family would believe she first conceived fooling around at Prom. Probably less so that she had a married lover in the past now raising their offspring. All they saw was the mousy girl hiding behind her romantic suspense reads, not the intimacy addict behind the mask.

Finally, she couldn’t bear it anymore. An opportunity arose for one night with someone she found alluring from a distance. While that night fulfilled her needs, it did not live up to her fantasies. With a body now full of life, the mousy girl told those around her she had a great opportunity that would call her away for a year. With everything else that transpired, it made the fabrication easy for all to believe. After all, all of their own lives had been upended.

So, for a while, she went to a remote area far away. Life came into the world, and as every time before, she arranged for it to be someone else’s responsibility, just as her own birth mother did. She still remembered the devastation of learning inadvertently as a teen that she’d been a product of her father’s past affair the birth mother arranged to dump her on the family and disappear, a fact they went to great lengths to hide from the world, just as she needed to try and continue to do.

Yet clearly she was her mother’s child.

She returned home not quite a year later, saying her opportunity ended early unexpectedly. While the position in fact had involved a lot of remote work she could have done here, she felt it necessary to be removed from distractions. All that was true, insofar as the details she chose to tell. She was in fact
hired for a remote job that did not, in fact, care about her health status.
One day soon after returning home, she found a note at her door, printed out with nothing unique about it, save its text.

“Everyone’s entitled to secrets… until someone decides that they aren’t.”

She crumpled up the note and threw it away in the wastebasket. No one else would narrate her life but her.

Check out my revamped author site at shannon-muir.com for all the latest information and news!