Welcome!

17 Apr

Shannon McGarvey is a writer, producer, content strategist, and ex-New Yorker with over ten years experience in non-fiction series television, print + digital journalism, creative writing, and blogging for major networks, publications, websites, and solutions agencies.

She has worked with award-winning producers, editors, and writers on content for the Biography ChannelA&EFood NetworkOutside TVSWRVMusic ChoiceMagnet MagazineAustin American-Statesman, Austin 360Digital Spy, and First Page Sage.

Shannon is also a published poet, fictionist, and non-fictionist who holds an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Individual poems and short stories have appeared in The Furnace Review, Temenos JournalMerge PoetryHaggard and Halloo, and Persona.

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I Love LA: Day Seven (Last Day!)

29 May

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House On Haunted Hill

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Paru's

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I Love LA: Day Six (Memorial Day Weekend)

28 May
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Carter is amazed at the Veggie Grill menu!

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I was just full.

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American Apparel warehouse store in downtown LA.

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Balboa Island, Newport Beach.

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I Love LA: Day Five

27 May

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I Love LA: Day Four

26 May

I have to admit, I didn’t do much on Day Four of my LA adventure. Honestly, my feet were still recovering from the self-imposed death march down to Venice Beach so, instead, I decided to chill by the pool with a trashy celeb mag and a diet Dr. Pepper. Pure class.

Later that night, Carter and I met his friend Adam at the Santa Monica mainstay, Father’s Office. Apparently this bar has the best burgers in all of LA. I have to admit, when paired with the sweet potato fries, Father’s Office was definitely in the running.

After Adam left us, we stopped into Renee’s Courtyard Cafe on the way home. The influential late-nineties film Deep Blue Sea was on. You know, the one about the killer sharks. Cinematic genius. We were mesmerized for a good 15 minutes.

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Thank You, Temenos Journal!

25 May
My short story has finally published and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

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I Love LA: Day Three

25 May

Blisters, headaches, and suntans – I still love LA but, boy, am I tired.

I walked all the way from Wilshire and Ocean in Santa Monica to Winward and Pacific in Venice. That’s just over 2.5 miles… in wedges. Ooofa. No wonder I have dime-sized blisters on the bottoms of my feet. On the bright side, it’s like walking on really painful bubble-wrap.

In other news, I think I found the site of my first tattoo, however, I couldn’t be certain of the location or layout. I think I may have been a bit disoriented by all the resident freaks wandering around like crackhead zombies. New York City weirdos have nothing on the vagabonds of Los Angeles. Where do these people come from?

The journey begins…

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I Love LA: Day Two

23 May

As a freelance writer/producer, I can work from almost anywhere and, thus, tag along with Carter to LA.

On my second day in Los Angeles, after finishing up with work of course, I hit the streets and the pool to finally catch up with all the tanned locals. My skin still looks like a wet piece of notebook paper but at least I’m beginning to warm up.

At the end of it all, I finished with a glass of wine and some Toblerone, the latter of which I’m not too fond. Tomorrow I hit the Santa Monica pier and Venice to revisit the dreaded site of my FIRST TATTOO.

Hijole.

This is me working from the hotel room.

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