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Shawn Speakman

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Shawn Speakman grew up in the beautiful wilds of Washington State near a volcano and surrounded by old-growth forests filled with magic. After moving to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, he befriended New York Times best-selling fantasy author Terry Brooks and became his webmaster, leading to an enchanted life surrounded by words.

He was a manager at one of the largest Barnes & Noble Booksellers in the country for many years and now owns the online bookstore The Signed Page, manages the websites for several authors, and is a freelance writer for Random House.

He also contributed the annotations for The Annotated Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, published in 2012.

Shawn is a cancer survivor, knows angel fire east, and lives in ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 11,343 ratings · 1,314 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Unfettered (Unfettered, #1) by Shawn Speakman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Jordan (Contributor), Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 5,912 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (Unfettered, #2) by Shawn Speakman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unbound 3.95 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Thorn (Annwn Cycle, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (Unfettered, #3) by Shawn Speakman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tad Williams (Goodreads Author), Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey 3.91 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King-Killing Queen 3.80 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unbound II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy by Shawn Speakman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristen Britain (Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twilight Dragon & Other Tales of Annwn: Preludes to The Everwinter Wraith 4.27 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Undone Life of Jak Dreadth 4.14 avg rating — 84 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Awesome Con Schedule: Shawn Speakman

Hi Everyone,

I am attending Awesome Con in Washington D.C. this weekend. It is a large convention that showcases celebrities, comic book creators, and of course writers. I’ll be there with the likes of Terry Brooks, TJ Klune, and others. I’m excited to attend and meet anyone and everyone who approaches me.

Here is my schedule:

Friday, June 16

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm | Room 209
Panel: All Grown Up

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Annwn Cycle (3 books)
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Battle's Perilous Edge (1 book)
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3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings

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Lev and I have been friends a long time. He also contributed to my anthology Unfettered, so I may be a bit biased here. But wow, what Lev has managed to do with The Bright Sword is something we see once in a generation, perhaps several generations. He ...more
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“Unfettered is an anthology filled with magic, wonderment, and hope. It is more than it's combined stories, though. It is the power of friendship. Of giving. Of a science-fiction and fantasy community that protects its own. Of humanity escaping the ugliness that often plagues it to instead create a testament to the goodness found in every heart.”
― Shawn Speakman, Unfettered

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“That’s when I learned the hardest truth about vengeance: it had no logical end, served no real purpose, except perhaps to delay grief. Vengeance was just an inversion of loss; or maybe its cowardly cousin.”
― Shawn Speakman, Unfettered

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“The effort of going home exhausted him. The effort of being home. Alexander had spent weeks in his nightmare, and all his things waited for him, unchanged. It was like walking into his room in his parents’ house and finding all his books and clothes from high school still where he’d left them. The artifacts of a previous life.”
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