BIO

KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.

2/17/11

Giving the Plot Away

It's an idea. Something Chris Holm and I have said we would like to collaborate on...a hockey story. I'd like to use my character former enforcer Morgan from "Backing the Stakes", but who knows? Chris has an imagination that hangs out in some pretty wild corners and if you haven't read his stuff, do so immediately. Yeah, collaborative writing is a challenge. Styles clash sometimes, sometimes they work. Leave it to the mischievous creatives at ESPN's SportsCenter to succinctly bait the imagination though. The kid in the cage Varlamov and the Great 8. The opening salvo of a thriller to say the least.