About Shannon Muir
SHANNON MUIR’s prose encourages readers to “uncover the mystery of character,” with an emphasis on mystery, New Pulp and noir, and related genre fiction. She’s also known for writing animation scripts and for textbooks written based on her experience in the animation industry.
Her latest suspenseful mystery releases are “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, the short story “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT, the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” preceded by her debut genre fiction story “Pretty as a Picture” in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS. From her personal self-published projects, best known titles in this area include the rural-noir inspired THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA and the MYANNA MOORE web serials now being released as e-book compilations.
Her first published story was in the anthology ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE. She has also been co-writing and providing all of the in-story lyrics for the webcomic FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY since it debuted in 2001.
She is also known as administrator of the blogs THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF and INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS, under which she also manages branded books as part of her self-publishing efforts.
Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Besides working in animation production, Shannon has written television scripts for animation. She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow New Pulp and animation writer Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States. She is a member of the Los Angeles and national chapters of Sisters in Crime, where in 2018 she began a two-year term as Speakers Bureau Director for Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles. Additionally, she belongs to the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, west; the Los Angeles chapter of Women in Animation; and ASIFA-Hollywood.
