As the large-font header above might have clued you in, my name is Shannon Ryan. I write boring computer programs by day, and I write fantastic books by night. Now, I don’t mean fantastic as in wonderful, because I still have a lot to learn about the writing business. No, I mean that they involve vampires, and Greeks gods, and drunken spacemen.

So, why do I write? Well, the simple answer is that I have to. The more complicated answer involves a surly, drunken, eighteenth century Frenchman who has it in for Louis XVI, but that’s a whole other story.