The Pulp and Mystery Shelf Thoughts from the Shelf: Includes Expanded Commentary Plus The Pulp and Mystery Shelf Shorts from the Shelf

By Shannon Muir

This e-book features expanded commentary into some of the best features from SHANNON MUIR'S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF blog, plus SHORTS FROM THE SHELF short stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shannon Muir
• Release date: May 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463959886

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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THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF THOUGHTS FROM THE SHELF: INCLUDES EXPANDED COMMENTARY PLUS THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF SHORTS FROM THE SHELF

By Shannon Muir

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2020 Shannon Muir.

First Smashwords publication May 2020.

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

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

STORY - BLACKE AND NU BEGINNINGS

STORY - SCALE OF JUSTICE

STORY - CRIME BEFORE THE FALL

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR – THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF: MY INTRODUCTION TO GENRE FICTION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

On weekends, SHANNON MUIR’S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF runs weekend columns called BEYOND THE SHELF, where I shared whatever’s on my mind. However, this began on Thursdays under the title of THURSDAY THOUGHTS. From June of 2017 through November 30th of 2017. I began it to play up my first new stories in print in some time, and then thought it might be a good challenge to offer a weekly column about myself and my writing. I soon found that proved to be a bit challenging to maintain. Starting in December of 2017, I converted the column to a monthly format to give people a taste of what would be coming during the month on the blog. I later realized I would be better served showcasing more books, and instead decided to transfer the preview style post to my other website (which features items across the cross-spectrum of my career), starting April 2018 in that slot. BEYOND THE SHELF would start up later in a weekend format.

Another thing was that I’d hoped for more two-way interaction. I encouraged comments but received none. Admittedly, the fact comments are moderated on SHANNON MUIR’S THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF provided a bit of an obstacle. Still, the main thing I’d hoped for was direct interaction with the readers and this wasn’t really the format to get that. The reprints in this collection edit out the calls for interaction. This is also why you don’t really see calls for comments on BEYOND THE SHELF posts.

The weekly format of the posts did produce a wide variety of commentaries on my part. Some were thought out weeks in advance; others inspired by events that literally happened the night before the post needed to be published. Featured here are what I see as the top twelve columns