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May-July Schedule
Hello Dreamers: Here is all the stuff that is scheduled to happen from May to July. May 1st: Beckoning from the Stars Kickstarter campaign starts. May 12th: Early bird 10-15% discount for non-subscribers ends. The 20% for those subscribed on the mailing list do not expire until end of campaign. May 31st: Campaign Ends. June 1st: Earliest Upload-Launch of Beckoning from the Stars. Also start wrimo sprinting for next book. June 20th: Words, Art, Craft market in Innisfil. Ear
Shannon Smith
2 days ago1 min read


I Got the Coverart!!!
Dreamers! The art has come! Look at this beautiful image that will be the cover jacket for Beckoning From the Stars! Obviously text needs to be added, including title, name, and blurb. Tell me More about this Image Its a digital representation of a painting I commissioned from an artist in the Ottawa area known as AJ LaFrance. You can see his other work on his instagram , much of it nautical themed. Many mermaids and octopods. So naturally I went to him when I couldn't g
Shannon Smith
Apr 151 min read


Coming May 1st
My fellow dreamers! The campaign for the long awaited sequel to Whispers of the Abyss, Beckoning from the Stars, will launch May 1st! Mark it on your calendars, and spread the word, especially to those you know who are into Lovecraftian Horror and Monster Romance. Follow Detective Clark from the Toronto Police service, who finds herself roped into the crazy world of the occult solving the murder of a stock broker. Things take a turn when the abyss opens up in her known worl
Shannon Smith
Apr 91 min read


Summoning Call of the Forest
The air of the woods filled with Kika’s pan flute. From her perch near the gate of a ruined castle, a joyful, major-key, tune, sounded throughout the area. Upon a golden morning within Fae’Una, where the childish kerhite play in communion with the life within. Under the canopy of the wood left by a spirit of Efore, Kerhite’Yonhe, the magic innate dances. Woodland creatures, big and small, gathered around the kerhi - wood made flesh in the form resemblance of hun children, fro
Shannon Smith
Apr 613 min read


Happy Easter
A short post, but I just want to say Happy Easter, if you celebrate. Enjoy the ham and chocolate. Sweet Dreams my Dreamers.
Shannon Smith
Apr 51 min read


Shannon Frances Smith for Prime Minister
Hello Dreamers. Given that the world is on fire, I think now is a good time for me to go into politics and run as prime minister. "Don't you need to be the leader of a political party before even thinking about being Prime Minister?" Absolutely! That is why we have the Space Whale Party, for which I am the party leader! Why should I vote for you, or anyone in your party? Lets go through all the issues that matter! Starting with: Energy Security Gas prices have gone up sinc
Shannon Smith
Apr 13 min read
Be on the Lookout for the Preorder Campaign!
Dreamers, I plan to do a preorder campaign for Beckoning from the Stars, and I would like you all to keep an eye out on it. If you are into Lovecraftian Horror, monster romance, and dark erotica, this would be for you! Course, if not you can forward this to someone you think would be into this! I know, it wasn't until Whispers of the Abyss that I over-estimated people's disgust for such subject matter. At the moment my computer is in need for repairs, so, once I have a full
Shannon Smith
Mar 261 min read


Attack of the Robins
Hello Dreamers There other day there were robins all over the place. Within every tree, along every fence, flying about everywhere. More Robins in one place than I've ever seen. Birds! It started with my mom's cat, Smokey, exciting looking out windows on the ground floor. We looked with him and saw, at first, two robins on the deck railing. Then we saw some in the nearby trees. There were more near the deck and on fences. All over the place in -11C weather, over a dusti
Shannon Smith
Mar 181 min read


What of Your Old Streams?
Hello Dreamers. You've been with me a while if you know what this is. I saw this weird comment chains from my last post. Hello Daniel. The answer deserves its own post. Background Since partway through the Pandemic I had been livestreaming gaming. At first on Youtube, and then on Twitch. As expected I didn't get a lot of views or watch time, but I thought I'm going to be gaming anyways, might as well. I played all kinds of games, though the game that attracted the most pe
Shannon Smith
Mar 122 min read


100 Questions String of Conscious
Hello Dreamers Transcript: So, I, um, need ideas for my blog, because I routinely find that it's my, that time of the week to write a new blog post and you don't frickin' know what to write about. I mean, it's not like I feel like always updating you on everything I'm doing or anything like that, so I asked, um... So I asked Gemini here, for anyone that doesn't know Gemini, Google's AI. Um, so I asked
Shannon Smith
Mar 411 min read


The 3 Books this Year!
Hello Dreamers I have a goal of publishing 3 books per year. Fast enough to supply content while maintaining some quality. Leave raw speed to AI - for stories that will be truly mind-blowing, thought-provoking, and unique a human still has the advantage. With that said, here is the current roadmap for what is being made this year. Beckoning of the Stars The long waited sequel to my most popular book: Whispers of the Abyss . Beckoning from the Stars follows Detective France
Shannon Smith
Feb 243 min read


I went to a Seance
Hello Dreamers. It was Valentine's Day. I'm single. There was next to nothing in Barrie I could do that didn't require a Valentine. So after looking around for something to do, I found an Ouija Board workshop on Eventbrite lurking somewhere on Queen's St. Yeah, sure, why not? I'm very much a sceptic, capitol-A atheist who doesn't believe in the paranormal. I also like gothic, spooky, stuff, and hey, messing with an Ouija board in public would make for a great social exper
Shannon Smith
Feb 173 min read


Weight of the Tithe
In the Beginning The plains were covered in blood. The hows and the whys Nara knew a little of from whispers along each blade of grass, and in that moment she did not care. All she knew was that a battle between soldiers erupted within the fields she and her husband tended to, as they have been for generations. A battle that razed homesteads with fire and magic. That butchered with stakes and steel. All this over a spat between lords. A want of more territory within the plain
Shannon Smith
Feb 425 min read


I've been interviewed
Hello Dreamers. I've been interviewed on True North Eager Beaver. We speak of much, but we spook of the creative process, being 'self-employed', autistic, and many of those intersections. The interview itself will air on their YouTube Channel on Thursday, January 22nd, at 7:30 AM EST for anyone interested in checking it out. Sweet dreams everyone!
Shannon Smith
Jan 201 min read


When Fake Law Enforcement Declared War
Hello Dreamers. Available in A4 format. Print it off, tape it to a stick. I can't. I can't be the only person that heard about the events in Minneapolis and feels on edge. Link in the event you live under a damn rock. The issue isn't so much that it happened, though an unarmed person getting shot by an armoured militiaman is terrible already, but its fallout that has me on edge. Here is Governor Waltz of Minnesota contemplating the use of the State National Guard to go ag
Shannon Smith
Jan 132 min read


Coming this April
Hello Dreamers Beckoning from the Stars, the much anticipated sequel to Whispers of the Abyss, will be published this April. Follow Dectective Frances Clark as she investigates the murder of stock broker and occult enthusiast Walter Keller. An investigation that drags her into cosmic mess caused by Abigale Morris' quest to free The Dreamweaver of Tides into the verse. One where the Detective gazed upon the right spot within dark matter, introduced to the star goddess Uxzil
Shannon Smith
Jan 81 min read


The Seed of the Most Powerful Witch the World has ever Known
Join the twin Witches, Yeta and Yater, as they venture out to find a demon to seed their perfect child. Part of a series of short stories that make up the Anataya Chronicles. Story contains mature subject matter. With that, enjoy. Prologue Yeta and Yater were too much alike. Their ambitions and desire for magical power and knowledge bounced off eachother. A feedback loop that led them to a cursed place to meet the remnants of a demon. The joint leaders of a coven of vauli s
Shannon Smith
Jan 725 min read


Happy New Years! Reflections and Resolutions
Hello Dreamers. Happy New Years! 2026 is around the corner, and 2025 had been just insane. I would like to just reflect, and discuss future goals. 2025 has been... Overall the world is in a strange place. The US went from being one of the most powerful nations in the world at the centre of western commerce and culture to being in complete decline. The world has faced disruption. Old allies are enemies now and wars have either started or intensified in that time. Canada
Shannon Smith
Jan 12 min read


Merry Spacemas Dreams!
Hello Dreamers.
Shannon Smith
Dec 25, 20251 min read


Barrie Public Library Local Author Market
Hello Dreamers. AI generated thumbnail. What I bought at the Market! I don't just sell, and interesting, local, authors and artists are worth supporting. Links to everyone in the video: Raimo Strangis: https://raimostrangis.com/ K Kirchberger: https://www.amazon.ca/Collection-K-Kirchberger-ebook/dp/B0D2LX7RDC Janis Constable: https://www.janisconstablebooks.com/ Valerie Losell: https://www.instagram.com/valerielosellart/?hl=en
Shannon Smith
Dec 24, 20251 min read
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