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Lisa Shafer

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Born

The United States

Website

http://lisashafer.blogspot.com

Twitter

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Genre

Young Adult, Humor, Paranormal

Influences

Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Bram Stoker, Ian Rank ...more

Member Since

November 2011

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Lisa Shafer is a Utah native and a writer of young adult fiction. Her current novels and WsIP all contain elements of the paranormal or urban fantasy, but someday she hopes to branch out into steampunk as well. As she has spent so many years teaching puberty-ridden adolescents, she tends to prefer first person POV in order to use teens' perspectives on the world. Or, possibly, she never really grew up and tends to see the world that way naturally.
When she is not grading her students' papers, reading, or writing, Ms. Shafer enjoys traveling. Her bad habits include staying up way too late at night to read and eating way too much chocolate. ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 78 ratings · 43 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Confessions of an Average Half-Vampire (Book 1) 4.23 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	All in the Half-Vampire Family 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	Becoming Brigid 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The (Dis)Appearance of Nerissa MacKay (Nerissa MacKay #1) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Chocolate Smuggler's Notebook: Clockwork Christmas 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	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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Lisa Shafer's Blog: Keeping Just The Original Blog

Book Bag Stuffed With Goodies! Giveaway!

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After 733 people signed up to win The (Dis)Appearance of Nerissa MacKay in my last Goodreads giveaway, I decided to have a few giveaways on my blog.
The first one has just started. You can win a library tote bag printed with vintage 50s Christmas graphic art and filled with bookish stuff: a paperback of (Dis)Appearance, a paperback of Popular by M. Van Wagenen, a mug (for sampling Auntie J Read more of this blog post »

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“The last time I bit someone was when we were still living in Denver.”
― Lisa Shafer, Confessions of an Average Half-Vampire

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“The last time I bit someone was when we were still living in Denver.”
― Lisa Shafer, Confessions of an Average Half-Vampire

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“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

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