Ask the Author: Shannon Egan
Answered Questions (6)
Shannon Egan
I was living in Africa and writing in a war-zone for the UN while struggling with drug and alcohol addiction while seeing how similar the Muslim and Mormon faiths were. I was running from my strict Mormon upbringing at the time and I thought...what a cool story this is!
Shannon Egan
For me, it just comes. But even if I don't get inspired? I sit and write a minimum of 3-4 hours everyday when working on a book. The dedication to writing always helps me produce something great in the end.
Shannon Egan
My second addiction memoir, Sex Drugs & Recovery. The story picks up after my first memoir No Tourists Allowed. Here's a description of if:
SEX, DRUGS & RECOVERY
Healing from Religious Oppression, Family Secrets & Addiction
by Shannon Egan
One year after Sudan, Shannon hopped on a Greyhound headed for New York City to develop a book regarding her experiences in Africa with well-known literary agency, Fifi Oscard. While there, Shannon landed a job writing for the United Nations Population Fund and worked in the Daily News Building in Midtown Manhattan.
To the rest of the world, it appeared Shannon was on top of it. But internally she was a mess. Despite her successes, she suffered from past traumas associated with the religious oppression and persecution she experienced while growing up in Mormon country, Utah, and her shame, insecurity, and low self-esteem-- a result of the physical, mental, and emotional abuse she endured as a small child. In order to cope with the fast-paced and demanding lifestyle of NYC, she relapsed—hard.
Her addiction got the best of her and she lost everything: the job, the contract, and the big life in New York. In 2009, Shannon ended up in a jail cell in Utah with a felony DUI and the possibility of a one-year sentence hanging over her head.
Sex, Drugs & Recovery highlights Shannon’s ugly downward spiral into addiction, but most importantly her recovery process and the purpose and meaning she's found in her struggles through her work as the Development Director for USARA, Utah's statewide Recovery Community Organization, and as a Recovery Advocate for the National Recovery Movement.
Sign up to receive an email when it comes out in the fall of 2016: http://www.shannonegan.com/sexdrugsre...
SEX, DRUGS & RECOVERY
Healing from Religious Oppression, Family Secrets & Addiction
by Shannon Egan
One year after Sudan, Shannon hopped on a Greyhound headed for New York City to develop a book regarding her experiences in Africa with well-known literary agency, Fifi Oscard. While there, Shannon landed a job writing for the United Nations Population Fund and worked in the Daily News Building in Midtown Manhattan.
To the rest of the world, it appeared Shannon was on top of it. But internally she was a mess. Despite her successes, she suffered from past traumas associated with the religious oppression and persecution she experienced while growing up in Mormon country, Utah, and her shame, insecurity, and low self-esteem-- a result of the physical, mental, and emotional abuse she endured as a small child. In order to cope with the fast-paced and demanding lifestyle of NYC, she relapsed—hard.
Her addiction got the best of her and she lost everything: the job, the contract, and the big life in New York. In 2009, Shannon ended up in a jail cell in Utah with a felony DUI and the possibility of a one-year sentence hanging over her head.
Sex, Drugs & Recovery highlights Shannon’s ugly downward spiral into addiction, but most importantly her recovery process and the purpose and meaning she's found in her struggles through her work as the Development Director for USARA, Utah's statewide Recovery Community Organization, and as a Recovery Advocate for the National Recovery Movement.
Sign up to receive an email when it comes out in the fall of 2016: http://www.shannonegan.com/sexdrugsre...
Shannon Egan
Keep writing--no matter what. My first memoir took ten years to publish. It's more beautiful now than it was when it was originally scheduled for publishing (back in 2009). Life and time gave me the insight I needed to raise the consciousness of the story.
Shannon Egan
It helps me grow personally and at the same time connects me to a higher purpose and mission.
Shannon Egan
I keep on writing! I have found that writing through the block always leads to the breakthrough of something substantial.
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more