TRIGGER WARNING—Rape
Shannon is a self-admitted under-assertive woman. And life’s given her enough low blows to force her to become a different version of herself. When she was 20 she was raped by an acquaintance. It was the kind of incident where she knows how many times she said “No,” but it still took two years before she realized it was rape.
Find out how deep and long lasting the damage from this kind of violation can be. Discover how Shannon’s coping and healing, still decades later. Learn why it’s so important for men to check themselves to prevent lifelong constellations of damage to the individuals they abuse.
Bio
Shannon Anne Watson, or S.A. Watson (that’s right, she was a bard from birth), has always loved history, mystery, and poetry. When she was a little girl, she fashioned poems in her head while doing her backyard chores. She read obsessively, mostly about Indigenous and Colonial America. She spent long hours in her room, writing and illustrating books of folded paper. She produced plays, acting them out in costume, alone or with the neighborhood children. Always, always, she created.
Now, Watson is an award-winning poet and author. Her poetry is in the Library of Congress and on audio. Many other poems are written expressly for and included in her works of fiction. Watson has several series in the works. The first of these, The Annals of Anavere, which is a series of twelve historical fiction novels, explores the history behind the legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. For it, Watson translated every name in the Arthurian corpus: personal, tribal, weapons, objects, and placenames, such as Avalon, Camelot, and the Holy Grail. Even the names of Arthur’s dog and Gawain’s sword are included. So far as is known in the long history of Arthurian research and fiction, this translation has never been accomplished.
In addition to The Annals of Anavere, Watson has several other series and stand-alone books in the works. She is currently writing a series of three novels, The Haunted House Histories. A departure from her usual historical fiction, The Histories – or H3 – is comprised of what she terms “historical ghost-stories” A third series, The Fleur d'Lis Mysteries, begins by telling the story of Baron Gilles de Rais – one of Joan of Arc’s captains and the erroneously-titled Bluebeard – from the triple perspectives of Gilles, of Gilles’ daughter, Marie de Rais…and of an old friend, long-dead. Research continues on the two subsequent books in The Mysteries series. She is also editing Butterfly Kisses, a book of her original poetry. Watson hopes to release the first of these books within the next year.
When she is not researching, writing, or editing her books, Watson can be found listening to P!nk’s latest album, drinking copious amounts of coffee while huddled over her laptop at the Koffee Klatch in hopes of looking like a busy, successful author, watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and laughing her ass off, or staring at the ocean in her native Laguna Beach like she’s never seen it before.
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Music — Happy African Village by John Bartmann
