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    Infinite House of Books: Own Your Own Tale: The Journey to Craft My Personal Adventure
    Infinite House of Books: Own Your Own Tale: The Journey to Craft My Personal Adventure
    Infinite House of Books: Own Your Own Tale: The Journey to Craft My Personal Adventure
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    Infinite House of Books: Own Your Own Tale: The Journey to Craft My Personal Adventure

    By Shannon Muir

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    Shannon Muir takes readers behind the scenes of the evolution of her blog feature, OWN YOUR OWN TALE, and what she learned along the way. This comes with the story, "A Second LaChance," which originally appeared in 16 installments on her blog but here is a complete tale and an opening and ending exclusive to this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Muir
    Release dateJun 7, 2019
    ISBN9780463494240
    Infinite House of Books: Own Your Own Tale: The Journey to Craft My Personal Adventure
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    Shannon Muir

    SHANNON MUIR's short stories include suspense and mystery elements such as those found in her first full-length story from Pro Se Press, CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN "THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER". Additionally, she's written short stories for Pro Se Press such as “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, "Pretty as a Picture" in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS, “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” a short story offered in electronic format only from Pro Se Press.From her personal self-published projects, her best known titles in this area include the rural crime series THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.In other genres, Shannon's published short stories include “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT and "Cover Story" in ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE.Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Currently, she is working on a Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppies, and Los Angeles, where she also served on the Los Angeles board for a two terms beginning in 2018), as well as the Toastmasters4Writers Chapter of Toastmasters International (where she serves as chapter Secretary), Women in Animation, and a Professional member of ASIFA-Hollywood.

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      Infinite House of Books - Shannon Muir

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      COPYRIGHT

      INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS - OWN YOUR OWN TALE: THE JOURNEY TO CRAFT MY PERSONAL ADVENTURE

      By Shannon Muir

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2019 Shannon Muir

      First Smashwords publication June 2019.

      This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be given away or resold to others. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy from Smashwords or a vendor partner. If you want to share this work with others, please purchase a copy for each person. Thank you for respecting the hard work of artists and creators.

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COPYRIGHT

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      ABOUT THE BOOK

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      STORY – A SECOND LACHANCE

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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      ABOUT THE BOOK

      The contents of this book are about a feature on my personal blog that appear as part of the INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS brand. As I have done with other, similar releases, I take you through the history of how this feature came to exist, why it evolved the way it did, and what I personally learned from trying it.

      Each of these short books also comes backed with one or more pieces of short fiction. In this case, the story is A Second LaChance, which appeared as the first INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS SPONTANEOUS CHOICES SHORTS release. I added it to this book due to its being a thematic fit with a character trying to find her place. Instead of being presented in the 16 serial chapters as it was on the website, it appears here as a single story; also, there is a beginning and ending exclusive to this book that better integrates its place as a part of the same universe that THE COMPLETE PHOENIX RISES series is set in, so it can be enjoyed as a standalone without needing to know the other series first. Other than appearing without segmentation, the main part of the story appears as it

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