Episode 131A - Shannon Felton - Prisoner of Stewartville

Overview Stewartville. A town living in the shadow of the prisons that drive its economy. Haunted by the ghosts of its past. Cursed by the dark secrets hidden beneath. A town so entwined with the prisons waiting outside the city limits that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other, or to ever imagine escaping either. When a teenage boy digs into the history of the town, he discovers a tunnel system beneath Stewartville, passageways filled with dark secrets. Secrets leading not to freedom, but to unrelenting terror. Stewartville. Where the convicts aren’t the only prisoners. Her Book https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Stewartville-Shannon-Felton/dp/1957537310?keywords=the+prisoners+of+stewartville&qid=1669400707&sprefix=prisoner+of+stewar%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1&linkCode=li2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=19233c51de9a29eba766a07f6d4a1d5e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il Favorites https://www.amazon.com/Beloved-Vintage-International-Toni-Morrison-ebook/dp/B000TWUTYG?keywords=beloved+toni+morrison&qid=1669400982&sprefix=beloved+toni%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1&linkCode=li2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=7872ae69c351d7fa24d2513211753895&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il YouTube Transcript Well, today I’m discover wordsmith. I want to, uh, welcome Shannon Felt. And Shannon, how are you today? Hi, Shannon: I’m good. Hi everyone. Thank you for having me here. Stephen: All right. Well, Shannon, uh, before we get started talking about your book, let’s find out a little bit about you. So tell us, uh, where you live and some of the things you like to do besides right. Shannon: I live in Phoenix, Arizona, kind of right outside Phoenix. So you’re not Stephen: getting the cold weather I’m getting today. ? Shannon: No. Where are you at? Stephen: Uh, I am in northeast Ohio and it’s actually snowing in parts of the area. Shannon: Oh, you’re so lucky. I love snow. I do too. Yes, I agree. Oh, it’s beautiful. You wake up and it’s a winter wonderland and the world is Stephen: transformed. Absolutely. But I’ve been to Phoenix and besides, you know, killing you when it’s hot, it’s, it’s beautiful in its own way there too. So yeah, Shannon: it can be. We’re moving soon to Georgia, so end of the year. Well, you won’t get excited about that there either, Stephen: and maybe so. I’m sorry, what else do you like to do? What are some things. Shannon: Um, I do all kinds of stuff. I’m always finding something new to do. Right now I’m learning to play chess. I went through a bread making phase. We had fresh bread like every day. My family loved it. Um, just kind of anything, you know, I get bored kind of easily. I like to change things up. Okay. Stephen: Yeah. So why did you wanna start? Shannon: I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I’ve always loved to read, and creating a world and losing yourself in the book is just the best feeling, and I wanna do that for myself and for other people. Um, And as a kid, we’d get these assignments, like write a short story, a short paragraph, and I’d fill out the whole page, flip it over, fill out the whole back of the page, just go way