That's awesome!! Glad it went so well. I'm just starting that journey and have high hopes. The communication hasn't been as great as I would like, but that was just at the discovery stage so I'm sure it'll get better.
How did you find the process?
My website is live!! 💙📚
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THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS
Coming September 2026
Go to shannonreeb.com and sign up now!!!
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Cover designer has been chosen, so excited!!!! Should be ready for reveal mid-June 💙📚
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My debut is on its way!
Cover designer sent mock-up proposal.
Copy editor/proofreader officially started.
Started my website and email automations (thank fudge I know how to do this stuff on my own, I'm out of funds 😣)
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I think that's a developmental ask?
Follow Serena as she delves into the world of The Night Market, learns to forgive herself, and to see the other side of her own story.
Author website with short stories from the same universe coming soon!
And I'll be crowdfunding the initial run this summer. A magical realism, this story speaks to those who struggled mentally in their childhood, experienced emotional abuse, and continue to heal from years of believing the lies your own treacherous brain has said about you.
I've had a few new followers the last couple days and just wanted to introduce myself! I'm Shan, a tech writer from Vancouver Island, Canada. After 6 years, my debut novel 💙📕"The Door Between No Walls" is ready to publish...
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My new author logo! I've been playing with this since I was about 10 years old. Doodled in many notebooks!!
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I still reread them every now and then!! Great dissociation 😅
I feel like I never meet anyone who knows the Pern books!!!! 💙💙💙
Telling my aunt about the Midnight Bookshop and how much I disliked it and wondering how it got published with objectively awful writing, only to realize later I'd said the Midnight LIBRARY which is one of my favourites and I'M SO SORRY MATT HAIG 😱 #booksky #DEIbutforbooktitles
Can't go wrong with a good ol' fashioned apple pie 🤤
Cheery sunshine and a refreshing, salt-tinged breeze hit the small crowds by the water. People raised their faces to the sky, revelling in the sun as though it might be snuffed out any moment, like true children of the Pacific Northwest.
Our setting is the gorgeous - albeit rainy - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Any other children of the PNW who know exactly what I'm talking about here???
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Exactly!
Time teased her. Serena lived a ten-minute walk from the Vancouver Harbour Pier, and even though she pushed her screaming legs and burning lungs, the minutes ticked by like hours, and somehow, her house moved farther away, and the roads to cross were busier than usual…
A small look into our protagonist's penultimate scene. The climax that gives her the choice to face her past or let it come to fruition yet again...
THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS - FROM THE CHRONICLES OF THE NIGHT MARKET
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“I found the thing that showed me the place that would eventually lead me to the Market, yes. That journey was slow as all hell, took a few years. But it got me here in the end. Sometimes, you just gotta follow your gut and believe everything will turn out alright.
This week is all about IGGY!
THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS - FROM THE CHRONICLES OF THE NIGHT MARKET
Everyone finds the Market in a different way. Iggy's took a while, but he got there in the end.
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Good to know
I gave up the series in the middle of this book a few years ago. Wondering if it's worth starting up again to see how it ends 🤔
“I try to highlight the small moments in life that people tend to forget. The pleasure of rain. Laughing until you cry. Sharing fireworks on a hot summer night with a crowd. “I believe they teach us something. Because there is peace in these moments. When we remember them, if we’ve taken the time to create a memory from one, it’s much easier to heal from the bad in the world.”
From THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS
A look into my favourite character - Ignatius "Iggy"
He's an Australian painter with a tale to tell...
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“Many hands designed this,” Isaac said with pride, gesturing to the wood spiral. “The artists hail from Indigenous nations across the globe. This fountain represents the energy that connects us all, from the smallest fathomable bits to the universe’s far expanses. It is the life of the Market. When our patrons flow through, so will the water.”
A look into the Night Market's iconic fountain - designed by me with my semi-okay Photoshop skillz 😁
THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS
From the Chronicles of The Night Market
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The logo for THE NIGHT MARKET, a yellow star with an arrow tail wrapping counterclockwise around it, on a backdrop of stars
Everybody has a story, and when a young women is lured to a travelling artisan market that draws them from its patrons, she’s compelled to reconsider her own.
THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS - FROM THE CHRONICLES OF THE NIGHT MARKET
Logo was designed by me, NOT AI 😉
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Quiet magic in an inflammatory world
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The words escaped before she could stop herself. “Is it magic?” Isaac smiled, full of friendliness and no mockery. This wasn’t the first time someone asked him that question. “Magic,” he said in his deep, soothing voice. “Implies something unnatural, my friend. There’s nothing more natural than this in the universe.”
THE DOOR BETWEEN NO WALLS
From the Chronicles of The Night Market
*Magic implies something unnatural...There's nothing more natural than this in the universe.*
This is a line I'd had in my head for years. TDBNW is built around this one idea.
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My hot tub 😅
A lil break in book content to present my #crossstitch project. My late bunny, Georgie, who was unfortunately a harlequin and therefore turned into a very detailed pattern 😅
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One was a marine park, which I don't support anymore - not that any animal BELONGS in captivity, but marine mammals especially don't do well - then I used to work for a children's charity that would bring animals to schools for ecological presentations. That was another lifetime ago!
