Shonell Bacon
By APOOO • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: In the Spotlight •
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Shon Bacon is an author, editor, and educator.
As an author, she has published both in the creative and academic arenas. Topics of interest include Christian, romance, and women’s fiction; inspirational non-fiction, screenwriting, and anything related to grammar.
As an editor, through her ChickLitGurrl™ brand name, Shon edits manuscripts for individual clients and small publishing houses. Through her Writers Boot Camp, she helps new writers move from story idea to story outline in 28 days. Shon has several online outlets that showcase her love of disseminating information about writing and writers to the public: Blogging in Black [http://www.blogginginblack.com], The Nubian Chronicles [http://www.tnc-magazine.net], ChickLitGurrl™: high on LATTES & WRITING [http://chicklitgurrl.blogspot.com], All the Blog’s a Page [http://alltheblogsapage.blogspot.com], and The World According to ChickLitGurrl™ [http://chicklitgurrl.wordpress.com] (where she talks about her personal writing and editing endeavors).
As an educator, Shon is an English Specialist and mass communication instructor at McNeese State University in Louisiana. There, she teaches freshman composition, writing for radio/TV, introduction to mass communication, and media writing. In 2005, 2006, and 2007, she contributed and co-edited three academic textbooks that are currently being used as the official textbooks for freshman composition at the university. Occasionally, she teaches fiction writing and fiction workshop through the university’s continuing education department.
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I am so happy for you, Shon! You are an inspiration.
Congratulations!
…off to find out more about the column.
ohhhh I missed this. wow. Congrats Shon! You definitely are inspiration. Julia is 100% right. Yas, thanks for spotlighting her. I just learned a few more things about her.
Keep writing Shon!
Hello Shon
Greetings from India!!
Wish you all the best for your work.
As I am doing research on Afro-American I might need your help sometimes.
Best
Devi