Why go to all the trouble of making a website for a book that is not out yet?
I needed a reason to keep up my website and Photoshop skills, and I also thought it could be a creative way to get the word out about my manuscript.
How do you do all the Graphics on this site?
With a really old version of Photoshop on a computer that many people have converted into fish tanks. If you are looking to hire me I do know how to use the newest version of Photoshop, I just can’t afford it.
Where is the book already?
I am still hoping to get an agent and get it published in the old fashioned way. Although I must admit every day I keep inching towards just doing it myself and selling it online, at the craft fair, and on the freeway offramp along with some flowers, and blublocker sunglasses. If there was enough genuine interest I would do a trial run on Lulu or I-universe or whomever. Imagine how much one of the original P.O.D copies would be worth once the book goes on to become a movie and a video game and a Saturday morning cartoon and a Broadway musical and a radio serial.
Why don’t you have a snazzy flash intro?
Because every time I visit a website with a snazzy flash intro, it takes too long to load and I just wish they would get to the point already. I do like snazzy flash cartoons and games however.
What happened to your old email?
I don't like my locker17 web mail. It's got a clunky interface and zero spam filtration so please just email me at my gmail address.
Your writing style contains a certain style of humor. Do you ever find that certain people just don’t get it?
Yes, so far I have had that reaction from most of the mainstream publishing world. It’s OK though, you get it don’t you. I mean you have read this far.
I don’t like to buy books. Can I read your whole manuscript for free?
You just need to meet a few criteria;
1. You are a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, the New York Times, or any other national media outlet looking to write a fair balanced and glowing review of the future publishing phenomenon that is Rock’N’Roll in Locker Seventeen.
2. You are a legitimate non fee-charging agent with a sense of humor who is hungry and has a brilliant instinct for the next big thing.
3. You are a producer with clout looking for the next feature film that is not a remake of an 80’s movie (that itself was a remake of a 1950’s classic loosely based on a silent film), or an adaptation of a classic TV show. (How is the Steven Soderberg live action version of the Smurfs coming along anyhow?)
4. You are a brilliant Broadway producer looking to bring Steven’s saga to the great white way. Think Grease meets Jersey Boys with a little Mamma Mia tossed in. The world anxiously awaits such classic songs as Help!, I’ve Misplaced My Corvette Again, and Flaming Skull Lunchbox Blues.
5. You give a blood oath swearing to buy 3 or more copies of the hardbound version including at least one copy of the deluxe limited edition leather bound gold leaf version.
Don’t you think you are just the tiniest bit delusional?
No, not at all. Ask me again a few years down the road when you are waiting in line for Rock’N’Roll in Locker Seventeen the movie while holding your deluxe Rock’N’Roll in Locker Seventeen Lunchbox filled with mint in package action figures from the movie and a set of Rock’N’Roll in Locker Seventeen trading cards containing the ultra rare vintage Ricky Stevenson.
Why did you do a website for just one book, instead of an author website?
Brown is a pretty darn common last name. I am pretty sure that ShannonBrown.com is taken and for the record I am not a country singer, I likes the rock and the roll. When I write another book series I will do another website. The web is a pretty big place. It can handle it.
I’ve never heard of Delacourte Indiana, and I can’t find on a map. Where is it exactly?
Delacourte exists in the hearts and minds of young children the world over. Just close your eyes and dream and let your spirit soar, your soul knows where to find it, listen to your dreams they’re saying: believe in yourself and go 3 exits past Monroeville.
What’s your obsession with Blublocker Sunglasses anyway?
I don’t know they just crack me up. Some guy used to sell them on the Golden State freeway offramp near my Grandpa’s house right under the billboard in Spanish. Anything sold next to an offramp is cool on some warped level.
Do people really frequently ask you these questions?
Ummm yeah sure all the time. I can’t walk down the street without people trying to buy a copy of my book. (I wish.)
Shannon can be reached at shannonslocker@gmail.com
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