Colleen Shannon

Colleen Shannon colleen1011@gmail.com - SCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY Native Texan and published romance novelist Colleen Shannon began writing fiction when she was eight years old. At the age of 26, she sold her first novel herself to Putnam Berkley. It was a Waldenbooks general fiction list bestseller and garnered her a Romantic Times nomination for Best New Historical Romance Author. She's since published another fourteen novels and won numerous awards. She currently has well over a million books in print. She's been reviewed by Publisher's Weekly and The New York Daily News. She studied at UCLA's Advanced Professional Screenwriting program and was a semi-finalist in the Carl Sautter Fellowship screenwriting contest. She obtained a Master's degree from the University of Southern California and is actively writing novels and scripts. Listed below are log lines for her favorite original screenplays, all WGA registered, and following that is a list of her published novels with their awards/top picks. PARTIAL LIST OF COMPLETED SCRIPTS: THE RANGER AND THE REDHEAD Action romance. A tough Texas Ranger arrives in sin city (L.A.) to track down the red-haired floozy he blames for his brother's death. But he didn't count on falling in love with her. Colleen has a partial novel submission ready for this story that began its genesis as a script when she had a WGA agent and lived in Los Angeles. Think Beverly Hills Cop meets Pretty Woman and you'll get a good feel for the story. HEAVEN'S ROGUE Fantasy Christmas romance based on her own published romance series. Michelangelo's David awakens in modern NYC, furious at his best boyhood friend for putting his nakedness on display for centuries. He is forced to seek the meaning of his rebirth, or in one week he will turn back to stone. In the process, the statue becomes in the modern world the man he failed to be in the Renaissance, ironically transforming everyone he meets--including the art historian who wishes him into being and the cynical NYC that has forgotten the power of dreams. This script, based on my own published novel of the same name, now available on Kindle, is in progress. At some point I may post the first thirty pages. The script version is much more visual than the book. I have Michelangelo appear as a character and statues all over New York city come to life. FULL CIRCLE Comic thriller. Cryptologist Alfred Hitchcock is stuck in one of his own diabolically clever plots. Only his dilettante Cary Grant-like nephew can rescue him from foes out to steal the world's first totally unbreakable computer security code. This is my personal tribute to Alfred Hitchcock and he would be one of the main characters. I've never seen a film like this one. TIME WILL TELL Time travel action. A pacifist physicist must travel to 1878 to stop a skinhead from assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.'s Buffalo Soldier ancestor. I have a completed novel version of this script that has never been submitted but it needs revision I haven't yet had time for. MAJORITY RULE Action thriller. An estranged father-daughter team of Secret Service agents are the only ones who can stop a U.S. government takeover so well planned that assassination isn't necessary. LISTED BELOW ARE HER PUBLISHED NOVELS AND THE ATTACHED AWARDS 1. WILD HEART TAMED-- JUNE 1986 -- Berkley. Nominated, ROMANTIC TIMES Best New Historical Romance Author -Waldenbooks bestseller list 2. THE TENDER DEVIL-- OCTOBER 1987 Berkley. (NORWEGIAN EDITION 1987) 3. THE HAWK'S LADY-- FEBRUARY 1989 Berkley 4. MIDNIGHT RIDER-- OCTOBER 1989 Berkley. Winner, ROMANTIC TIMES Reviewer's Choice award- Best Western Adventure, 1990 5. SURRENDER THE NIGHT-- JULY 1992 Berkley. B Dalton Romance list; reprinted 6. GOLDEN FIRES -- NOVEMBER 1993 Berkley 7. THE GENTLE BEAST--OCTOBER 1996 Dorchester (Lead Lovespell) RT- Winner Kiss Award (best historical hero for the month); Winner Reviewer's Choice Best British Isles Historical; Recommended Read, Amazon. 8. PRINCE OF KISSES--MAY 1997 Dorchester (Lead Lovespell) RT-Winner, Kiss Award. Barnes&Noble.com- bestselling historicals 9. THE STEADFAST HEART--AUGUST 1998 Dorchester (Lead Lovespell) Winner, Kiss Award 10. THE CAT'S MEOW--Halloween Anthology OCTOBER 1998 Dorchester (Lead Lovespell) 11. HEAVEN'S ROGUE -- SEPTEMBER 1999, Dorchester, Lead Lovespell First choice of Stephanie Hargreaves, Amazon romance editor, on her favorite fairy tale list. 12. HEAVEN'S HERO, April, 2000 Dorchester, Lead Lovespell. 13. THE WOLF OF HASKELL HALL, January, 2001, lead Lovespell, launch title for Candleglow, Dorchester's new Gothic line. National ads and promotion, dumps offered. RT Top Pick. 14. THE TRELAYNE INHERITANCE, December, 2002. Sequel to above title. Lead Lovespell. 15. CATSPELL January '06 Third book of a series featuring intrepid Shelly Holmes, female detective--and werewolf. Introduced above to reader and reviewer renown. Candleglow Gothics--lead Lovespell. 16. FOSTER JUSTICE December 2014-- my first published romantic suspense contemporary. The first in a planned series of three books featuring modern Texas Rangers, all set in my home turf of West Texas. Book two will be called Sinclair Justice, in progress now.