About The Author: Eric Shane Love

Since January 2016, I’ve been a freelance videographer, photographer, and social media content creator. I live in a rural Georgia town about an hour and a half inland from Savannah. Before 2016, I worked fifteen years at a small, non-profit youth home for troubled teenage boys. I was a mentor, educator, and the creative director during that time. I’ve always had a love of writing. As early as sixth grade, I wrote stories about my classmates, passing them around the room to get feedback. While at the youth home, I wrote and directed thirteen Christmas plays, often involving fantastical elements and frightening themes. I love fantasy. I love horror. I love comedy. Though challenging, I generally worked all three into the productions.

By the time I began freelancing in 2016, I knew writing should be an important part of my life. It makes me happy in a way nothing else does. I had been working on a few novels for fun for several years by then, but I started looking at the future with the goal of self-publishing the Glint & Shade series, beginning with book one, The Scarecrow Hunters. However, I didn’t just want to self-publish the novel: I wanted to self-publish the best version of the novel I could write. This meant hiring an editor, investing the time and attention necessary to make the manuscript excellent, doing extensive edits (including a total rewrite of the first two books), and a shit ton of other stuff (to learn all about that shit ton of other stuff, watch my Wandering Focus series). So now, here we are.

A few random, interesting, and trivial things to know about me: I’m in a band. I sing and play keys. I am a classically trained vocalist, though that has little bearing on the classic and 80s rock, and, less fortunately, the spattering of country songs we perform in the band. Oh, and my brother is the bassist and frontman. It’s been his band since 2012 (Learn more at tigercreekband.com). I’m the new kid on the block. Halloween is my favorite holiday . . . and yes, HOLIDAY is the correct term. I have two dogs and a cat: Bella, a mutt who gives me the best cuddles, and Hot Breath Eugene, an enormous pit bull/mastiff mix whose head looks like a basketball with eyes. Bella is the Princess and Eugene alternates between being the Court Jester and the Village Idiot. The cat’s name is Chuck, and he is irreparably deranged: Think of him as the Mad Witch who lives outside the village gate. That’s why we love each other. All my pets are rescues. I also have about fifty plants in my house. Sometimes I pet them and speak tenderly how pretty they are. And I am unashamed. I have a tendency to take much longer to tell a story than is necessary, and sometimes those stories don’t have endings. I get that from Debbie. And don’t worry: my books will always have endings. Well, always may be aiming high. And one more thing: I hate technology. When the technology in my life becomes self-aware, I’m a dead man. The things I’ve said to my phone and computer are enough to induce vengeance. I once abused my iPhone to the point that every time I picked it up, it automatically dialed 911. That’s a true story, which is why I’m now an Android guy. So yeah, they will kill me. I have that to look forward to.