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    Infinite House of Books: Reflections on Five Years of Book Blogging
    Infinite House of Books: Reflections on Five Years of Book Blogging
    Infinite House of Books: Reflections on Five Years of Book Blogging
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    Infinite House of Books: Reflections on Five Years of Book Blogging

    By Shannon Muir

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    Author Shannon Muir looks back at the first five years of INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS. which began as a book blogging site and how it ultimately integrated into her author brand. She talks about how she came to start the site, her experiences at Book Expo America 2013, and how the site played a role in her motivation to advance her own prose writing career. Also includes short fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Muir
    Release dateJul 31, 2017
    ISBN9781311887320
    Infinite House of Books: Reflections on Five Years of Book Blogging
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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: REFLECTIONS ON FIVE YEARS OF BOOK BLOGGING

      By Shannon Muir

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2018 Shannon Muir.

      First Smashwords publication March 2018.

      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

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO [

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      DON’T MAKE ME REGRET THIS

      FATHER’S GIFT

      TRIGGERS

      ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF

      ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR- DISCOVER WORDS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      As the fifth year of my blog feature SHANNON MUIR’S INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS – often called INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS – draws to a close, I thought it would be nice to look back at the journey of the last five years. INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS served as my first foray into the book blogging world, and taught me a lot. This summarized my journey, including my successes and failures, and the lessons I learned from them.

      I’ve also bundled in a couple diverse pieces of fiction. Two of the are already available for free on Goodreads. One came out this year, called Don’t Make Me Regret This; the other, Father’s Gift, originally came out in an online e-zine called MOCHA MEMOIRS that folded in 2004. The third, Triggers, is a short piece that I’ve released for the first time here.

      Working in the book blogger space has been quite and adventure, as both a writer and reader. Thank you to everyone for the continuing support I’ve received as INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS evolves.

      Shannon Muir

      Glendale, California

      March 2018

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      CHAPTER ONE

      INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS began at a time when I was unemployed, and I needed something to regularly keep me focused just to get by. I’d enjoyed guest blogging for a friend of mine who ran another blog, usually doing book reviews for her but

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