Status: i believe the "number of reads" counter on Wattpad is acting up lately. It either goes up by the thousands or is stuck in one place for days (1 month ago)

shanejoseph

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Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his first short story collection, Fringe Dwellers, in 2008. His novel, After the Flood, a dystopian epic set in the aftermath of global warming, was released in November 2009, and won the Canadian Christian Writers award for best Futuristic/Fantasy novel in 2010.His latest release is the novel The Ulysses Man. His short stories and articles have appeared in several Canadian anthologies and in literary journals around the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com/blog is widely syndicated.

His career stints include: stage and radio actor, pop musician, encyclopaedia salesman, lathe machine operator, airline executive, travel agency manager, vice president of a global financial services company, software services salesperson, publishing editor, project manager and management consultant.

Self-taught, with four degrees under his belt obtained through distance education, Shane is an avid traveller and has visited one country for every year of his life and lived in four of them. He fondly recalls incidents during his travels as real lessons he could never have learned in school: husky riding in Finland with no training, trekking the Inca Trail in Peru through an unending rainstorm, hitch-hiking in Australia without a map, escaping a wild elephant in Zambia, and being stranded without money in Denmark, are some of his memories.

After immigrating (twice), raising a family, building a career, and experiencing life's many highs and lows, Shane has carved out a niche in Cobourg, Ontario with his wife Sarah, where he continues to work, write, and play in a rock band.

For more information visit his website at www.shanejoseph.com

Works

Lest They Be Forgotten

Short Story #78 / Other #111

13 parts / 42 pages, updated Jan 13, 2013

A series of twice-told tales from Canadian author Shane Joseph. These newly re-published works include stories of losing home, wandering abroad, and finding home, a... read more

107,537 reads

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Letting Go

2 pages, updated Sep 23, 2012 PG-13

256 reads

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shanejoseph
1 month ago

@falloutperson There isn't much writen to critique yet. Pay attention to your spelling. The first sentence of Chapter 1 has two errors: "raised" instead of "rose" and "though" instead of "thought." Spelling can be a turnoff if it's not correct, especially on the part of the narrator. The premise however, is intriguing.

shanejoseph
1 month ago

@AnniLouisa Since you requested feedback, here are some suggestions:  try to infuse dialogue and action into your story which seems to be happening entirely in the head of the narrator. Also check spelling and grammar. Hope that helps. All the best!

falloutperson
1 month ago

Could you  read my book Children Of The Gnomes? It would mean alot to me. Thx

AnniLouisa
1 month ago

Could you please read my story Mr. Mysterious? I would mean a lot to me to get some opinions.

shanejoseph
2 months ago

@notebooklover I have read your work and made comments which I hope you will take in the spirit in which they are given. Keep writing. Success is the product of hard work and luck.

notebooklover
2 months ago

Check out my new work. I have dedicated a part to you.

notebooklover
2 months ago

@shanejoseph

Of course, I totally agree on that.

Thank you for fanning me. You are very welcome to read my works and leave feedback.

shanejoseph
2 months ago

@notebooklover Thanks for reading and voting for my stories. I have mixed feelings of Wattpad right now. As much as it helps build a platform, it also breeds a culture of "writing is free." I think a writer must be paid for his/her efforts, especially if they engage, educate and entertain a reader. I would love to see the many readers who have read my work here go on to buy my books that are available through online retailers. Then it would re-inforce partnership between the writer and the reader, a two-way street, instead of the writer always giving. I am open to your thoughts on this.Wattpad is an incredible concept but its limitations need also to be kept in mind.

notebooklover
2 months ago

I have just finished reading Lest They Be Forgotten. I have voted on a few chapters but clearly, I really liked to read some adult fiction instead of teen fiction for once. Are you going to be releasing any new stories on Wattpad?

shanejoseph
3 months ago

@blackmasquerade Now I wonder why we let it diminish? Did we become captive to TV, Hollywood, e-mail and all those other one-dimensional  stimuli?

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