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Shanna Swendson

Author of Fairy Tales for Modern Times

About Me

I'm the author of Enchanted, Inc. and its upcoming sequel, Once Upon Stilettos, humorous modern fairy tale novels. I also contribute essays to books on popular culture. Visit my web site at http://www.shannaswendson.com .

My Interests

Books (chick lit, romance, fantasy, science fiction, generally anything with words in it), writing, television, cooking, gardening

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, The Office (US version), Firefly, Buffy, Angel (yeah, I know they're gone, but I can still love them)

Books:

Enchanted, Inc. (duh!), To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, chick lit, fantasy, science fiction, etc.

My Blog

Building a Better Alarm Clock

Drumroll ...... aaaaaand .... I didn't go to the movie. For one thing, I was just finishing and turning in a project that was due Wednesday at about the time I needed to be getting ready to go. For an...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:21:00 PST

More on Fast/Slow Reads

I'm happy to report that I did finally finish the Unending Book last night, and boy, it really was an unending book. It was like one of those movies that has false endings where you're sure it's over ...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:30:00 PST

The Unending Book

Last call for letting me know if you met your January writing month goals so I can do some kind of randomized drawing to see who gets the advance copies. I'll probably do the drawing on Thursday and a...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST

Post-Weekend Catch-Up

I'm going to have to quit planning to get work done during the weekends because it just never seems to happen, and then I only end up feeling guilty instead of enjoying the goofing off. I did get a fe...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:47:00 PST

Randomness

I have a bunch of random stuff today that I've been thinking about but haven't dealt with because it didn't fit into a particular topic or theme.So, they announced the release date of the next (and fi...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:05:00 PST

Writing Month Results

Our writing month is over. So, how did you do? I got through the line edits on a manuscript, wrote about 30,000 words of a book and revised a couple of proposals a couple of times. I guess I was kind ...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:40:00 PST

Happy Layoff Day!

We're really having winter here this year. When I opened the front door to get my newspaper this morning, it was snowing! We usually only have wintery precipitation about once a year, if that, and thi...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:57:00 PST

What's Next?

Wow, the day after I post the Korean cover for Enchanted, Inc., I get an offer from that publisher for the Korean rights to Once Upon Stilettos. I can't wait to see what that cover looks like! Now I j...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:34:00 PST

Mental Images

First, Mom said I needed to post a correction/addition. If you are crazy enough to try the horseradish in tomato juice sinus cure, she says you should heat the concoction before drinking -- I do a min...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:37:00 PST

Girlfriends Cyber Circuit Presents Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I think I'm winning the war of the sinuses. The pressure isn't so bad today after yesterday's regimen of a more humid environment, lots of fluids, peppermint tea and Mom's remedy of horseradish in tom...
Posted by Shanna Swendson on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:02:00 PST