About

About this website

When Shane graduated from university and didn’t immediately land a lucrative publishing contract, he decided to create this portfolio website to get the word out there. Several intensive re-designs later, something looking a lot like this particular website was spawned.

Not only does this website contain links to info pages about all of Shane’s various publishing endeavours (primarily graphic novels at this stage), but also contains a blog and a page collating quotes from reviews of his work.

About Shane

Shane was born Shane Smith in 1985. Then for quite a long time, nothing much happened. Then he got used to writing about himself in third person for bios like this.

Writing

Shane studied creative writing at the University of Canberra, and often wishes he was still there. His Honours project in Creative Research, entitled Academaesthetics: How The Essay And Comic Can Save Each Other, was published in the October 2007 edition of Text, a refereed academic journal, and is available to read for free.

Shane has been writing for most of his life, and has surprisingly little to show for it. This website was created as an attempt to showcase his work, starting with the graphic novel The Game, which took four years to complete, and is at this stage unpublished.

The graphic novel, The Lesser Evil, was accepted for publication by Zeta Comics, and will be available to purchase shortly in both digital and print formats.

Current projects include a number of sequels to The Lesser Evil, entitled Death’s Feast, All The King’s Men, a redrafting of The Game, and a couple of shorter pieces entitled Thinking Bigger, The Long Road Home, and Inferno. After all this is done, Shane intends to come up with at least one new idea. (Possibly something to do with his story, Parlour Tricks, which is being published in 2012 by the ACT Comic Meet in their Beginnings Anthology.)

His life goal has always been to be a writer. Some of his earliest and most precious memories involve creating a book with his dad when he was three. Expect to see updates to the creative endeavours mentioned elsewhere on this website, and general ideas regarding the creative process.

Katie

While in his third year of university, Shane met Katie Walsh, and his life was turned upside down forever. They got engaged on Christmas Eve, 2007 and married on August 31, 2008. They bought their first house that October.

They are extremely happy. So happy in fact that they have decided to expand their family. Barkley the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel entered their family in December of 2008, and a baby girl appeared in Katie’s belly in May of 2009. The amazing and talented Annie Walsh-Smith was born on February 13, 2010. The family may be growing again very soon – fingers crossed!

Becoming a parent was the best thing he ever did… even better than The Lesser Evil.

Publications
Custard (2006 FIRST – Vertebrae)
Academaesthetics (2007)
The Lesser Evil (2011/12)
Parlour Tricks (2012)
Pestilence (2012) (with Gavin Thomson)

Works in progress
Death’s Feast
Not Just Annie’s Story
The Game
The Long Road Home
Thinking Bigger
Inferno
The Tube
Kiss of the Dragon

Publicity
DAZ3D Artist Profile (Oct 2011)
ACTWrite featured author (Dec 2011)

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Contact
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