Ask the Author: Monica Shaughnessy
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Monica Shaughnessy
Unfortunately, The Trash Collector is only available as a digital copy because of its length. Sorry about that!
Monica Shaughnessy
From Edgar Allan Poe, of course! I'm a big fan of his work. So when I found out he had a tortoiseshell cat named Cattarina, I wondered if she supplied him with inspiration for his work. How could she not? So each story in my series centers around one of his stories - The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, etc.
Monica Shaughnessy
I usually catch a snippet of the news or learn a little known fact or hear about something truly bizarre. My books aren't all that mainstream and I enjoy writing about things no one else has.
Monica Shaughnessy
A short story collection called "Hell Cent and Other Fine Stories of Death and Dismemberment." The title is fairly self-explanatory, no?
Monica Shaughnessy
Don't publish the first thing you write. It probably won't be any good, despite what your mother tells you.
Monica Shaughnessy
When you work from an outline, writer's block doesn't happen all that often.
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