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Shannon McKenna (Also wrote as Shannon Anderson)
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I started writing my first romance novel in secret. I was working a temp job
in an insurance office in Manhattan at the time, and the office manager had
made it clear that even if there was nothing to do, I still had to look
busy-- never one of my big talents. So I sneakily set up a Document 1 and a
Document 2 with a spreadsheet on it. If my Boss du Jour walked by I could
quick-like-a-bunny switch screens, and whenever the coast was clear, I went
back to my story. Not that I was slacking, mind you. If there was work to be
done, I did it. The sneakiness felt familiar, though, because I've been
teased about reading romances since I was a kid. I think the day I finally
grew up was the day I stopped trying to cover up what I was reading on the
bus, train or subway. Let people think whatever they like.
It wasn't until I moved to Italy that I got serious about writing, though. I
found myself with many long, quiet days alone with nothing to do, so I
slogged my way bravely to the end of the manuscript and sent it out.
Everybody rejected it-except for Kensington. I wrote for them for a few
years, and then made a bid for an erotic novella for the new Brava imprint,
and oh joy, they accepted it. Then I wrote BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. And so on,
and so forth.
That's how I started. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. I never knew
it would be so scary, and so hard . . . all that solitude and silence, a
blank computer screen, and no one to blame. But still. It's worth it. It's
great.
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AWARDS:
- All About Romance 2003 Reader's Award: Guiltiest Pleasure
Book:
Standing in the Shadows
Publisher: Kensington, ISBN: 0-7582-0453-1
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Books by Shannon McKenna
- Standing in the Shadows (2003)
- Behind Closed Doors (2002)
- Return To Me (2004)
- Out of Control (2005)
Writing as Shannon Anderson
- Anything Goes (1999)
- Bit of A Gypsy
- Come Rain, Come Shine
- Isn't It Romantic (2000)
- Quinn's Return (2000)
Anthologies with Shannon McKenna
- All Through The Knight (2001)
(Foster/Forster/Devine/McKenna)
- I Brake For Bad Boys (2002)
(Foster/Denison/McKenna/McKenna)
- Bad Boys Next Exit (2004)
(McKenna/Kauffman/Sheedy)
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