About
After the book - and main character - of the same name, I'm a feisty, strong-willed, and passionate woman. Born and raised in southern Louisiana, I'm infinitely proud of my Cajun heritage and am pleased to say I was, quite literally, "raised on the bayou".
Coming from a land where ghosts and ghost stories were as common and accepted as the gray, curling moss dripping from the oak and pecan trees, my precocious young mind was constantly stoked, feeding an already rampant imagination. I have been writing for as long as I could hold a pen; in fact, I've never "not" written. Even before I could hold pen to paper and form my thoughts into tangible words, brilliant and colorful stories played out in my puerile mind. Putting them to paper was simply a natural extension of what I was born to do.
I am, in my thirtieth season on this trip around the Sun, employed by my beloved state's government as an i.t. tech and web designer. My spare time is spent writing and graving - my two latest and greatest passions. I share my home with my very-Cajun boyfriend of six years and our furry cat-children: Gia, JoJo, Maggie, & Max.
Spiritually-speaking (for what else is more important in this life than the advancement of our souls for the betterment of all?), I am a Zen Hindu Pagan Buddhist - if you had to label me (though I'd prefer if you didn't). I believe there is beauty and truth to be found in *all* religions and enjoy each of them for what they bring into my life. As to claiming one, singular one for my own, I just feel there is no one religion that can encompass all I am and believe. My "religion" is like me; forever changing, growing, evolving.
If there is anything else you wish to know, please just ask.
ABOUT MY WRITINGS AND THIS BLOG
ShannaRiley.com is where the vast majority of my writings or links to my online works - everything from fiction, non-fiction, celeb gossip, erotica, grocery lists, opinion, epic and fantastical generations-long genealogies that lead to nothing, poetry, brainfarts, and essay - can be found.
My regular website is at skatoolaki.com and my personal blog is La Vie Sans Limites. I can be found, also, on MySpace and Facebook.
All other online published content, via Helium, Hubpages, and Squidoo, may be viewed here, on my content blog, at shannarileyblog.com.
You can contact me at either skatoolaki AT gmail or shanna.riley AT gmail.