Shawn Inmon, Storyteller

Shawn Inmon was born into a town--Riffe, Washington--that no longer exists. This may have contributed to the type of fiction he writes. He is a full-time writer who spends his days with his head in the clouds, creating new worlds and universes so he can tell you the stories he sees. 

Shawn likes to say that he’s learned everything he knows from his 400 jobs. Typical of a writer, he likes to exaggerate! 

Still, he has done everything from door-to-door sales (seeds, Christmas cards, and Grit Magazine as a boy, Kirby Vacuums and Cutco Cutlery as an adult) to lying about his age to get a job as a short order cook. At the time, he didn’t have any idea how to cook anything, but he learned. He still feels bad about those first few customers who suffered through his food.

He traveled with the Unlimited Hydroplane Tour for three seasons, worked as a business consultant, a video store manager, and a retail buyer for a department store. He spent ten years spinning records as a morning DJ and another twenty-three years as a real estate agent and broker. 

In 2016, he took all that accumulated life experience and took the plunge into being a full-time novelist. He’s never looked back. 

His first books were based on his real-life romance with the girl next door, who is now his wife and beloved. She mostly puts up with his bad jokes, though she is fond of saying he is his own best audience. 

Most of Shawn’s ideas come when he walks his two Chocolate Labs, Sadie and Hershey. It’s how they contribute to the family economy. His slightly schizo cat named Georgie does not deign to contribute in any way. 

Every morning, when he wakes before sunrise and makes the twenty-foot commute from his bedroom to his office to write his stories, he knows he is among the luckiest people on Earth.