Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1977, DJ Shaw was 17 before she was able to see most of the United States. When she was 17, she decided to join the fair, traveling with them to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Once the fair arrived in Lake Charles, DJ had decided it was time to go home, that she had had enough of traveling with the fair. She much rather preferred to sit around writing, or even telling, the lives of the people who lived in her head. She had been good at story-telling from the time she was about ten, when she scared herself so bad with her story of the Boogey-man that she couldn’t move off her bed. Her siblings would come to her for their scare fix, because they knew she could come up with something on the spot.
Having found what she loved to do at an early age, she continued to write down her stories and any poetry that came into her head. She had stacks upon stacks of notebooks filled with her work. Her love of horror movies made her stories that much more chilling.
When she’s not writing, she’s listening to music, supporting her favorite adopted brother and his band “Traveler in Pain”, playing with her five children, spending time with her husband of seven years or watching horror movies in the middle of the night just for the scare factor.
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This story was published in the "Shades of Pink Vol. 1" anthology two years ago. This anthology was a charitable antho written by authors to help raise money for breast cancer research. This cause if very near and dear to me as my mom is a breast cancer survivor so I wanted very much to be a part of this antho. Catriogwyn was my way of contributing. Now that's not to say that my story has anything to do with breast cancer though ;-)
<div class="a-row a-spacing-micro" style="width:835.765625px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="a-color-secondary" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="a-size-normal"><span class="a-color-secondary">By </span><a class="noTextDecoration" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AQ7LC40R310WF/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp" style="color:rgb(0,102,192);">Christy K. Cagle</a> </span><span class="a-color-secondary">on March 6, 2015</span></span></div> <div class="a-row a-spacing-small" style="width:835.765625px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;margin-bottom:10px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="a-size-mini a-color-secondary" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:11px;line-height:1.465;">Format: Kindle Edition</span> <div class="a-section" style="margin-bottom:0px;">Being a vampire is one thing, but imagine finding out you've got another secret! I won't say much because I don't want to give anything away, but holy cow! I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one, and in a good way. I really really hope there's a sequel in the works. If you're looking for a quick read that will have you wanting and craving more, go ahead and one click this right now! You won't be sorry.</div> </div>