Goodreads Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4760235.Shawn_Kirsten_Maravel
Author Blog: http://shawn-kirsten-maravel.blogspot.com/
Book Review Blog: http://thegirlwiththegreenshovel.blogspot.com/
Shawn Maravel grew up in Bethlehem township, New Jersey, born to Walter and Barbara Baumgarten. She has a twin...
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Goodreads Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4760235.Shawn_Kirsten_Maravel
Author Blog: http://shawn-kirsten-maravel.blogspot.com/
Book Review Blog: http://thegirlwiththegreenshovel.blogspot.com/
Shawn Maravel grew up in Bethlehem township, New Jersey, born to Walter and Barbara Baumgarten. She has a twin sister and two younger sisters.
Shawn attended Voorhees High School where she met her husband. She participated in track and took Autobody and Sports Medicine Polytech classes in addition to her regular studies. She attended Raritan Valley Community College after high school where her major was marketing. When her husband, then boyfriend, joined the Army in 2008 she later joined him in Katterbach, Germany where he was stationed soon after they were married . In Germany she took classes with the University of Maryland University College as an English major.
Shawn started writing seriously during the time that her husband attended bootcamp but she really began to take it seriously once he deployed to Iraq in 2009. Writing had started out as a way for her to cope with the long periods of time that they spent apart but slowly took on a life of its own, becoming something she did for herself.
She is currently living in Germany with her husband, Rottweiler Nahla, and little-crazy-ninja-cat Sookie. Her interests include reading, writing, snowboarding, long walks with her husband and faithful canine, and watching movies.
Volition is Shawn's first published novel and was written during her husband's year-long deployment to Iraq. It is the first of a two book series, followed by Severance. Both are currently available for purchase on amazon.com and createspace.com.
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