Shannon
Dearing
Author, Book Reviewer, Screen Writer,
Producer & Director
Shannon Dearing has directed and produced several
short films and written several screenplays. She is
currently at work on her first novel, a
fantasy/adventure, which will be published in early
2009. Shannon is the fiction book reviewer for The Big
Blend Magazine and often joins editors Nancy J. Reid and
Lisa D. Smith as a co-host on Champagne Sundays, their
weekly radio show.
Shannon was born in Burbank, CA and raised in Westlake
Village, a small Los Angeles suburb. At the age of
eight, her family moved to Iowa for year, only to leave
the Midwest for Phoenix, Arizona where she spent eight
years. Shannon has always been competitive, and excelled
in several sports. She is inquisitive about the world
around her and has traveled extensively abroad,
including England, Mexico and across the United States.
She attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where she
studied Biology. She subsequently studied at Los
Angeles City College, where she pursued her academia in
Film and Television. Shannon now resides in North
Hollywood, California.
Contact Shannon via email at
SLDearing@sbcglobal.net
Reviews by Shannon:
Jame Fredericks – Author of ‘Brother’
will be a featured guest on Champagne Sundays radio
airing live on June 7, from 11am-12:30pm PT.
Hidden Truths -
Written by Brenda Youngerman -
A bolt of lightning shatters his
dreams, and six-year-old Billy Foster finds himself blamed for his
mother's death. Gwen Nelson is an unwanted child who never gives up
hope despite people letting her down, time after time. Follow their
journeys, as well as their brother and sisters as the world around
them overlooks the crying of a child.
Read the review.
Baby Steps
-
Written by K.L.
McLoughlin
Most
women are pro-choice and have faith of some kind. ‘Baby
Steps’ tells the story of one such woman forced to prove
her strength of her convictions.
Read the review.
Subprime Factory -
Financial
executive and author Jeffrey D. Schlaman explores this
reality in his fast-paced thriller,
Subprime Factor,
which sheds light on how Wall Street affects Main
Street.
Read more.
What I Thought I Knew by Barbara Stahura - What can happen if
you change your mind? Barbara Stahura has always been a seeker
of knowledge and wisdom, and in her first collection of
essays, What I Thought I Knew, she shares the sometimes
painful, sometimes humorous, but always poignant events
on the path to her own awakening.
Read the review.
One Last Dance – It’s
Never Too Late to Fall in Love: A story about
finding love at any age, One Last Dance is the
delightful tale of Morgan, aged 89, and Dixie, 79, two
"mature" individuals on seemingly divergent paths.
Despite their disastrous first meeting, it was obvious
to bystanders, that the two were fated for each other.
Read more about
One Last Dance.
Considering
SomeplacElse - Have any of you ever wanted to work some place
else? Author B. L. Lindstrom has created the place where we would all
love to be employed - an experimental community that has perfected the
concept of Utopia. Read Shannon Dearing review of
Considering SomeplacElse.
Wealtheow: Her Telling
of Beowulf - Ashley Crownover has retold the
classic tale of Beowulf from the perspective of
Wealtheow, Queen of Danes. After centuries of silence,
Wealtheow provides a woman’s perspective on the issues
facing her people, raising intriguing literary questions
in a readable, modern writing style. Read about
Wealtheow.
Moonquest -
In a land
where fear rules and storytelling spells death, only one bard's
imagination can end the tyranny.
by Mark David Gerson
Recipes by
Shannon
Shannon's Chicken Soup
Shannon's Bloody Mary
