Shannon Hovey

Shannon received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She was one of a handful of students selected for the Creative Writing course offered there in 1995. She spent fourteen years in the Nashville music industry, working with bands, publishers, record labels and recording studios. Her original songs have received airplay in three countries. In 2013, she returned to Nova Scotia and published a thriller novella titled Since September (under the pseudonym Noelle MacLeod). Her thriller short story “Sandman” was included in an anthology published by Tough Times Publishing, available from August 2024 to August 2025. The anthology, “CriminOlly Presents Garbology: An Anthology of Awesome Trash” was part of a popular annual BookTube event called GarbAugust.