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Renée Shantel

indie author & unashamed daydreamer

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Audrey Herringbone’s main focus has always been her YouTube channel dedicated to helping find missing persons, but when her best friend is the one to go missing things start getting a little too real.

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What Are They Saying?

Unputdownable is not a word I use lightly. But I’m using it for this book.
Roz MacLaren Goodreads Review
This superbly-crafted book can best be described as “a ghoulish tale without any ghouls.” It dives deep into the frightening reality that is social media, the internet, the media itself, gossip, and high school dynamics all intermixed. It also highlights that trust is a sacred concept — but you need to be prudent as to whom you give it.
Cynthia BrubakerGoodreads Review
I honestly have so many good things to say about this book. The authors passion is clearly seen in the language that she uses and her descriptions of events are so vivid you’re literally right there…
KimmiGoodreads Review
The biggest plot twist – I definitely did not see that one coming. I nearly dropped my phone while reading that one sentence.
Charmelle HendriksGoodreads Review

About the Author

Renée Shantel started writing at the age of eleven, for no better reason than she was tired of waiting for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to be released. She has entertained dreams of being published ever since. She has taken several short courses in creative writing, book editing and publishing, and managed to have her first short story published in May, 2017.

When not writing, she can be found shooting analogue photography, casually learning to play the violin, or smothering her cats with love.

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reneeshantel

indie author & unashamed daydreamer

Q: do you have a favourite photo book? Fresh out Q: do you have a favourite photo book?

Fresh out of high school and with no idea what I wanted to do with my life, I set off on a journey to become a photographer.

I was never very good. I was too shy to ask people if I could take their portrait, too much of a homebody to make landscape my calling, and too susceptible to Imposter Syndrome to believe I could ever live up to the artistic geniuses I followed on Flickr. (Remember Flickr?!)

I don’t shoot much anymore, but some days when the writing isn’t cooperating and I still want to create, I try. So here’s a little photo for today, inspired by all the aesthetic accounts I follow. I want to try to incorporate more photos into my feed, but…no promises.

I picked up this book by @georgiarosehardy a while ago in the hopes that it would inspire me to create again, and I’m looking forward to finally diving in.

So. Got any faves?

Some of my favourite photo books:
“Luminescence” by @brandonwoelfel
“Ultraviolet” by @brandonwoelfel
“This Is Gonna Hurt” by @nikkisixxphotography
“I Am” by @martinstranka
I haven’t been feeling the writing as much over I haven’t been feeling the writing as much over the past month. You’d think a second draft would be easier, but creative block doesn’t discriminate. I’ve made more progress in the last few days than I have in the entirety of October.

My Internet having been out for most of that time probably helped. 😉

So. It might not be much progress, but here’s a WIP Wednesday regardless.

#wipwednesday #booklovers #indieauthorsofinstagram
A peek at the projects I’m currently working on. A peek at the projects I’m currently working on.
It’s me. Hi! I’m the author, it’s me. It’s me. Hi! I’m the author, it’s me.
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