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Shane Lusher

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in Pekin, IL, The United States

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Shane was born and raised in Tazewell County, Illinois, two and a half hours south of Chicago.

Though he has been writing for most of his life, he has been, in short order: a drywall finisher, a movie theater concessions worker, a lawn mower, a cafeteria worker, a bartender, a copy boy, accountant, translator, teacher of English as a foreign language, and, finally, an IT consultant.

He is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria with his wife and three children.

You can visit Shane at his website, on facebook and at Amazon. ...more

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Average rating: 4.42 · 138 ratings · 22 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	New Blood 4.41 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Moon 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Origin (Dana Hartman, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Tithes 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maddie: A Dana Hartman Novella 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scary Stories: for Isabel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A few years ago, not long after putting New Blood out and hoping that it would magically make a million dollars so that I wouldn't have to work anymore, I started writing the second book.

It was going to be the sequel to New Blood, set in Tazewell County, a few months after the happenings with Sheriff DuBois and Wayne Trueblood, and it was going to show Dana getting his feet wet again, getting use

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