Publishers Marketplace deal listing: Sarah L. Hawthorn's A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING, to Jo Ann Peritz at Audible, at auction, by Sam Farkas at Jill Feinberg Literary Management. (world English).

Crashing waves, gull calls, and a fog horn beckon you to Devils Island because I've signed an audio deal! A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING is officially getting an audiobook!

It was an exciting 5-way auction and I'm so happy it's found its home 🌊💙😈

New wishlist just dropped 💖

My toddler calls any form of craft time “making art,” and it is the sweetest thing to hear her say “let’s make some art, mom.”

my debut novel is slated for publication with Bantam Dell next Autumn. it has:

🥀 sirens (of the winged variety)
🥀 sapphic longing
🥀 sacrifices made for love
🥀 women behaving badly

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i studied anthropology and latin in college and have quite literally been obsessed with magic since I was a kid. i strive to capture the beauty in the grotesque in my work… you know, gore, but make it ethereal—i blame my Scorpio moon for that 🌚

so, here it goes! my name is shannon, and I’m a dark historical fantasy & horror writer who lives on the edge of the deep, dark woods in rural Vermont.

my writing focuses on wayward women, monsters, and wayward women who are sometimes literal, sometimes figurative monsters.

Image of Shannon Ives in her studio. She’s wearing a white outfit and smiling, looking off to her left away from the camera.

𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ✨

hi there! I’ve been meaning to reintroduce myself across platforms for… literal weeks now as so many of us scatter across the app-sphere. but imposter syndrome made me feel shy, and I kept dragging my feet. but no more!

Who is writing this book???

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Finished word vomiting a short story tonight (yaaaay) but stayed up way too late past my bed time to do it (booooo)

Yesterday while frolicking through the Vermont wilderness, I saw my first black bear!! It was across a meadow from me shaking apples out of a tree, and I can’t stop smiling thinking about him. 🐻🍎

Had a dream last night I was out with friends and had a sudden idea for my book, so I pulled out the good ol’ notes app mid-convo to record it. The wildest thing is it was a GOOD idea, and when I woke up for real, first thing I did was open the good ol’ notes app and record it.

Picture of the “I'm In This Photo and I Don't Like It” meme, which shows a screenshot of a retired Facebook report option for hiding photos from one's timeline.

just hop right up into one of those rockets of his… 🙏

honestly either type of sub works

It wasn't just a hell site, it was OUR hell site, you know?

death of twitter would be so much funnier if i didn't need it to make money

Twitter wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I'll mourn the community I found there.

is there a sub we can put elon on?