Shawna Holly
Shawna Holly is an Okie who now lives outside of San Antonio, Texas, with her husband and three young kids.
Prior to venturing into fiction writing, she served in the U.S. Air Force, worked as a government contractor, wrote a hyper-local blog focused on the beautiful Texas Hill Country, and owned a boutique web design and digital marketing firm (not all at once, of course).
When not writing, editing, publishing, or marketing, she can likely be found napping, over-caffeinating, taxiing her kids around town, procrastinating, or cheering at the baseball field.
Keep in touch at shawnaholly.com.
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