Entanglement cover reveal!

 Here it is! The cover for my new YA Specative book, Entanglement!

Harrison Duell thought his time travelling ability was amazing, until he re-lived the same fatal week for two years straight with no progress in sight.

The week always went the same way: teenage physicist Ramona Park invents a quantum entanglement device, Harrison’s corrupt father, Liam, finds out about it, and Liam kills Ramona in a bid to control the citizens of the city. At the end of every repeating week, Harrison fails to save Ramona and uses his abilities to go back to the beginning again. If Ramona finds out about the repeating timeline, she loses her mind to cognitive dissonance, so Harrison must keep the secret safe.

But for the first time in two years, something is different. Harrison and Ramona are making progress in their quest to destroy the device without killing the citizens of the city. As they get closer to neutralizing the threat, Harrison begins to realize that his attempt to save Ramona and the rest of the world may require the ultimate sacrifice. With his mind quickly unravelling from the cognitive dissonance of time travel, Harrison must attempt to save the girl he loves, stop his father, and try not to die in the process.

BOOK UPDATES!

 Basically, I was too lazy to write a blog post about all the book updates I have for you guys, so here's a video explaining what's happening!

2 years between updates!?!?!?!?

Okay, so not quite 2 years. That was a bit dramatic. But still... it's been pretty dang close to 2 years. Please accept my sincerest apologies!

I've had quite a few readers e-mailing me lately asking when the third Parrish book will be out. And to you I say, I salute your undying dedication to Jefferson Parrish. He would be so proud of your support. In fact, he is so proud... because, let's be honest, that boy knows everything everyone is up to.

(NO JEFFERSON IS NOT LIKE JOE GOLDBERG, I IMMEDIATELY REGRET MY CHOICE IN GIFS)

So, long story short (but not that short because we all know how long-winded this girl is), I had a baby. This one, right here.

She's pretty freaking cute right?

Like, stop it already, you perfect specimen of a human being.

And this little baby Sovay has sucked the life force out of me, leaving me sleep-deprived and in a constant state of panic that she might be choking on something or falling off of something or not learning enough words. I mean, don't get me wrong, she's the light of my life but MAN kids are stressful!

Anyway, not so long ago I FINALLY finished the book I've been working on for literal years. Pre-baby Shannen used to write a book every 4 months (no exaggeration). Post-baby Shannen took TWO YEARS to write a book. Granted the book in question basically forced me to learn physics which is no easy feat. But still, it took a while.

I'm super proud of this book, though. And I'm SO excited for the world to read it. Right now it's in query limbo, so that's always a fun place to be. But no matter what happens, I will be beating you all over the head with physics, time travel, and entanglement theory in no time :)

And now, on to the reason anyone still reads my blog.


PARRISH

The third book in the Parrish series is already like, 1/3 written. The entire plot has been written out chapter by chapter so now I just need to have time to sit down and put the words on theoretical paper (anyone up for some free babysitting?). I won't promise that it'll be out by Halloween like I did a year ago because... well... look where we are now. But I will promise that Jefferson Parrish will be gracing your nightmares soon. He hasn't been forgotten. Mostly because he is THE MOST persistent muse you will ever find. Like he seriously sits on my shoulders all day poking me in the ear asking when I'll write another book about him.

Drama queen.

I've also got a few other books in the works and in true Shannen fashion, I'm bouncing back and forth between all of them as I write.

So never fear! Books will be released!

Eventually.

And in the mean time, here's a GORGEOUS drawing Shauna Rust did of Jefferson and Sadie being adorable.

Until next time,

Shannen

An update on book-limbo

I've been getting a lot of the same questions from a lot of different people, which tells me I really need to be better about keeping you all up-to-date on what the heck is happening with certain books!

A while back I requested the rights back from my publisher for Under Zenith and the Sugar Coated Trilogy, which meant these books were in a weird state of limbo until a certain period of time when I could put them back on the market (blahblahleagalstuffblahblah not that exciting to talk about)
And when I say "limbo" I mean, the kind of limbo where the books are done and written and were published previously, but are now just sitting here waiting to be re-released. Not the fun kind of limbo where you get chased by giant terrifying spiders.

So, as you probably know, Under Zenith and the sequel, Beyond Lyra, are now available! Yay!

But what about Sugar Coated? Where is my adorable little psychopath, Eris?

(PS, this is my FAVORITE thing ever. Jackie, I freaking love you)

Never fear! The entire Sugar Coated trilogy will be available again soon! It's just getting new covers (not because I'm like "Now you all have to buy the same book again but with a new cover! MWAHAHAHAHA!" but because legally they have to have new covers) and a little typesetting facelift. So they will be available soon in e-book AND paperback, it just takes some time to get all of this stuff put together in a pretty, shiny package :)

I'll keep you guys up-to-date on their progress (expect Sugar Coated in about 2 weeks with the other 2 following close behind!) but in the meantime, I have Sugar Coated's new cover to tide you over! The covers for Rose Tinted and Silver Lined are already done too but I figure I'll reveal them as the books become available :)

So there you have it! I'm actually stupid excited about how awesome the covers all look together... so I may end up caving and just posting them all soon :) We all know I have zero willpower.

Also, if you're ever curious what a propaganda machine run by my psychotic little Eris would look like, feel free to follow the Halcyon Happiness Committee on:

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Wordpress

She does have fun spreading lies about the world :)

Until next time!

Shannen

Fade Cover Reveal!

These last few months have been ALL about the new releases! Apparently I saved up my yearly allowance of new releases for the last two months of the year? Sorry about that :)

But that being said, Fade should be coming out before the end of the year!

I know what you're thinking: "Shannen, it IS the end of the year". But... you know... technically I still have a few weeks. So there you go.

But we can't very well release the second book in the Parrish series without a cover, now can we? So without further ado, here's the beautiful cover design of Jackie Hicken for the second book in the Parrish series!


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TA-DA!

So be on the lookout for Fade in the next two weeks! And if you haven't added it to your shelf yet on Goodreads, go ahead and do that here!


There's also a giveaway going for a signed paperback of the first book in the series, Parrish, which can be found here! (It may not quite be up yet but keep checking back!)


Enjoy all the spookenings in December!

Until next time!

Shannen

Beyond Lyra Cover Reveal!

Are you guys wondering where the heck I've been? Writing books of course! AND getting ready for the release of TWO new books before 2016 is over!

That's right. Not only will you be getting Beyond Lyra this month, but you'll ALSO be getting Fade in December!

So check out this awkward video for the brand-spanking-new cover of Beyond Lyra!!!





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Author Spotlight: Lisa Rumsey Harris

I haven't done an author spotlight before. Not really. But I just had the sudden urge to share with you guys why everyone needs to be reading Lisa's books.

Although it's not super fair because even though I've read a few of her amazing stories, only one is out for the general public right now. And oddly enough, I read one of her unpublished works before reading her published book, "The Unlikely Gift of Treasure Blume". (You can get it here)

But it doesn't even matter that, at the moment (but not for much longer because her next work of art will be gracing book shelves soon) there's only one book for you to read. Because that book is worth reading.

So I don't know how author spotlights normally go, but this one is basically going to be me telling you the main reason you need to be reading anything Lisa Harris has the time to write (because time is surely not easy to come by with four little girls, a husband, a giant dog, an even gianter cat, AND teaching ACT prep classes).

Lisa Harris doesn't write books. She writes art. And it's taken me several years to figure out exactly why I loved her writing so much. And it literally just hit me about five minutes ago, hence the blog post.

Lisa has this amazing gift. Her books all have this sense of magic about them and her characters are experiencing sort of semi-paranormal phenomena, but that's not what makes them magical. The real gift she has, is that she can magnify the profound beauty of the commonplace. Her scenes with actual magic are great, and fun to read, and written beautifully, but the scenes in her books that always mean the most to me are the ones where nothing all that amazing happens. And it'll usually happen in one line. And it'll be completely out of the blue. But I read her stories, and suddenly I feel like I've been a part of this profound, incredible moment that I didn't even know was coming. Because, again, it's always in a random sentence about a totally normal thing where she suddenly lays the deep meaning on you.

She does it so well that I can't even really fully describe HOW she does it!

So yes, this blog post may be random, and yes this might be the most non-spotlight-y spotlight ever done. But I don't really care. Because seriously, you need to read anything Lisa writes.

And you REALLY need to keep an eye out for the next book she has coming out, because it's the first one of hers I ever read, and all I could ever contribute in our critique group was, "Everything you write is a gorgeous piece of art that makes me feel like I'm unworthy to be in its presence."

Maybe I should have titled this post, "A love letter to Lisa and her amazing artful writing".

So there you go.

Until Next Time,

Shannen