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About Shannon Young
Shannon Young is an American author living in Hong Kong. Her books include a love story, Ferry Tale; a coming of age travel memoir, Year of Fire Dragons; and a Kindle Single on student debt. She also edited an anthology of creative non-fiction by expat women in Asia and has written ebooks including a mini travel memoir, The Olympics Beat, and a novella, The Art of Escalator Jumping.
Shannon grew up in Arizona in a homeschooling family of nine children. She attended Colgate University in New York before moving to Hong Kong in 2010. Shannon's writing has appeared in the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society's anthology, on numerous websites, and in MARY: a journal of new writing. She writes a blog called A Kindle in Hong Kong and a regular column about being an expat writer on The Displaced Nation.
You can follow Shannon's work and join her email list at the following sites:
Website: shannonyoungwriter.com
Blog: akindleinhongkong.blogspot.com
Twitter: @ShannonYoungHK
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Titles By Shannon Young
Katrina Keller flees to Hong Kong after the most humiliating moment of her life goes viral on YouTube. She starts over as a lounge singer in a fancy hotel, wishing only to be anonymous. But that’s tricky when you’re the wrong end of an Internet joke.
He doesn’t want to risk another heartbreak…
Sam So transfers to Hong Kong after his long-term girlfriend cheats on him. He doesn’t want to risk another heartbreak by dating again, and he’s not even sure how people date in the world of Tinder and texting anyway.
When the two meet on the Star Ferry, Katrina will tell him she’s someone else, someone who’s as cool and sophisticated as she’s always wanted to be. Sam will be too caught up in her spell to remember he’s supposed to be avoiding relationships. But it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Will they get their enchanted romance, or will Katrina’s lie destroy it all?
From the author of Year of Fire Dragons and The Art of Escalator Jumping comes a modern day fairytale about finding romance in an age when we tend to Google the mystery right out of love.
With contributions by...
- Susan Blumberg-Kason
- Jocelyn Eikenburg
- Leza Lowitz
- Suzanne Kamata
- Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
- Pamela Beere Briggs
- Kaitlin Solimine
- Christine Tan
- Stephanie Han
- Edna Zhou
- Kathryn Hummel
- Ember Swift
- Nicola Chilton
- Eva Cohen
- Catherine Rose Torres
- Coco Richter
- Jenna Lynn Cody
- Saffron Marchant
- Jennifer S. Deayton
- India Harris
- Philippa Ramsden
- Sharon Brown
- Neha Mehta
- Shannon Dunlap
- Barbara Craven
- Michelle Borok
She teaches in a local school as the only foreigner, explores Asia with other young expats and discovers family history in Hong Kong, all while trying to hold on to her thwarted romance. The city enchants her, forcing her to question her plans. Soon, she must make a choice between her new life and the love that first brought her to Asia.
Shannon Young is the author of a travel memoir, Year of Fire Dragons: An American Woman's Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong, and novellas including Ferry Tale and The Art of Escalator Jumping. She lives in Hong Kong.
Cover design by Hannah Perrine Mode.
Octavia Chan, a reserved Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, has a hard time standing up to her mother. Joan is driven, controlling and—for a 26-year-old back under her mother’s roof—incredibly frustrating. Octavia moves home from the US to reconnect with her mother when she meets Cal, an impulsive American with enthusiasm to burn.
The Escalator brings Cal and Octavia together like a mechanical sprite. But then Joan’s tight control begins to unravel. Instead of working on a better relationship with her mother, Octavia finds herself fighting for Joan’s sanity. Enlisting the aid of a tough psychologist-turned-lawyer, a Hong Kong socialite, and a helper with a secret, Octavia must use her own kind of strength to help her mother.
But a storm is brewing in Hong Kong, and Joan has a secret too.