NP author, Shannon Monroe, is getting 2016 started right!

Happy New Year! Happy Writing!

Now that NaNoWriMo 2015 has come and gone, Shannon Monroe is still hard at work finishing the latest novel from this round of the contest, Book 2 in her upcoming Romance trilogy. Her successful turn as first time host for the Come Write In sessions at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library will hopefully lead to future connections between the library and NaNoWriMo in 2016 and beyond. In preparation, Shannon was interviewed by fellow SFA-RWA member and novelist, Vanessa Kier, about her past experience with NaNoWriMo and also responded to a request by the Executive Director, Grant Faulkner, to share a short synopsis of why participating in the contest and supporting the organization is so important. You can read the interview and see her thoughts on the impact NaNoWriMo has had on her writing and her life at the links below.

Why Donate – NaNoWriMo –

http://nanowrimo.org/why-donate

Interview with Vanessa Kier –

Click to access The-Hidden-Benefits-of-NaNoWriMo.pdf

Check out @ShannonLMonroe’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShannonLMonroe/status/670393550048133120?s=09

Check out @ShannonLMonroe’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShannonLMonroe/status/663892746122366976?s=09

Check out @ShannonLMonroe’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShannonLMonroe/status/659877961626030081?s=09

Shannon’s getting ready to host Write Ins at her local library. Hope all of you are ready to get those novels finished and win!

Sign up today! http://nanowrimo.org/

Amongst the Celtic revelry over the past weekend down at the Pleasanton fairgrounds, Shannon was hard at work acquiring writing inspiration. While hanging out with friends, her Cousins Munro, and watching awesome pipes and drums, and bands like Albannach and Brother, she had the good fortune to stumble upon a giant posing for pictures. Being a massive Game of Thrones fan, it was her duty to get a pic herself! Behold The Mountain!

This made me smile, dance, cry, and dance again. #RIPMCA #Top5Loves

Check out @ShannonLMonroe’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ShannonLMonroe/status/614620578461278208

Hello!

Come out to Downtown Berkeley and experience the first ever, Bay Area Book Festival! http://www.baybookfest.org/

My fellow authors from our local chapter of Romance Writers of America, SFA-RWA (San Francisco Area chapter), will be hosting Booth #9 on Kittredge Street in WRITERS ROW across from the Berkeley Public Library, all day Saturday and Sunday, so stop by and let’s talk writing, Romance, Poetry and how awesome it is to live in the Bay Area! I’ll be there 10am-12pm each day, so I hope to see you there!

Monroe out 🙂