Spotlight Saturday: Guest Post and Giveaway with Shaun Allan

Hi, everyone!

Welcome to another edition of Spotlight Saturday at Darlene's Book Nook, where we feature authors and their books!

We will be joined today by Shaun Allan.

About Shaun:
  

I've been writing since I was knee-high to a giraffe.  I don't think I could quite hold a pen when I was nose to knee with a grasshopper, but I was pretty young when I started.  It's been my life-long dream to complete a novel.  I had so many ideas and stories that needed to be told, I didn't really have a choice, and 2011 is the year my first full length novel was finished.

Over the years, I've written many stories and poems, and won competitions with a few.  I've been published in a multitude of magazines and have appeared on Sky TV debating the pros and cons of web based publishing as opposed to the more traditional kind, thanks to an online magazine I used to run - me, who produced an ezine from my home up against one of the main agents for a major literary house.  Scary stuff!  The magazine drew in submissions from all over the world and gave a showcase to those that either didn't want to find magazines and other publishers or actually couldn't.  If I liked it, I published it, it was that simple.  As the Kindle was one of the top selling items online, I think web based publishing most definitely has its place in today's world and it's companies like Fantasy Island Book Publishing and places like SmashWords that bring it all to life.

Well, we bring it to life, they help nurture it.

I've worked, previously, as a laboratory technician, a teacher and, for the past so many years, in the Oil industry.  I live with my partner, our wonderfully insane daughter, and our baby girl.  That's right, I'm surrounded.

At least I have the three cats and myriad fish to keep me company!  Oh, and all my friends I meet when I write.

For more information about Shaun and his work, please visit him at:

Website: http://www.shaunallan.co.uk/home.html
Blog: http://singularityspoint.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaun-Allan-Author/196204763754619
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/singularityspnt

Welcome to Darlene's Book Nook, Shaun!

Shaun has written a guest post, so I will now turn the floor over to him!

Guest Post by Shaun Allan

Christmas is coming

The goose is getting fat

But I eat turkey

So I'm not too fussed 'bout that

I'm waiting for the snow to fall

The temperature to drop

The river outside my house to freeze

The world to come to a stop

And though the ducks will walk on water

And the air will be just biting

I'll be fine with pen and paper

As long as I am writing

This time last year I was in good cheer

For my book was almost done

Ten years had raced in such a blur

But now the race was won

And since that time I have been blessed

With reviews so very fine

My ten year journey went by so fast

It only felt like nine!

Now Christmas is coming once again

And more books I have in store

Like Zits'n'Bits and Rudolph

And soon so many more

I love to write, creating worlds

No man has walked upon

And to take a reader by the hand

And share with everyone

I also love to find myself

Taken by a writer's hand

And led to places far and wide

Discovering whole new lands

I guess that on my Christmas list

I'd ask for a few more hours

For writing, reading, marketing

You need some special powers!

Just a couple, five or so

More hours in the day

And I might get to do the things

That keep on slipping away

Work and life and family

I thoroughly enjoy

But to fit it into 24

I'd have more Me's to employ!

But so it is and such is life

It only makes us stronger

But, Santa, if you're listening

Can you make my days a little longer?

Thanks so much for joining us today, Shaun! I share your Christmas wish, LOL!

Giveaway: 

One lucky winner will receive a copy of Rudolph Saves Christmas. Shaun's talented daughter did the artwork for the cover!

This giveaway open worldwide.

SYNOPSIS: 

Rudolph, that very famous red-nosed reindeer has been accused of trying to sabotage Christmas! Join his as he, with the help of a very special squirrel named Flop, breaks out of prison in an attempt to clear his name!

Throw in a collection of madcap Christmas poems and you've got something to keep children of all ages entertained this Christmas!

To enter the giveaway, you must complete the Rafflecopter entry form below.

This giveaway is open worldwide, and it will close on Saturday, December 31st at 12:01 AM EST.


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