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01/27/2013

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     Traffic to the blog has more than quadrupled over the past few days as a result of a big book giveaway I've done on Amazon. A lot of people read the book and then want to pop in to the blog here and look at pictures of the real people and places that I wrote about. If you haven't already, you can find those photos here.
     Several months ago, I wrote a two-part blog about the songs that I used as chapter titles in Feels Like the First Time. Those pieces were two of the best-received blogs I wrote last year, but now they are buried under months of other writing. So, I thought I'd re-post them here, just in case people that are just finding the blog this weekend are curious.
     I not-so-originally called that first blog Music From Feels Like the First Time. If you'd like to know more about why I chose the songs I did, click that link. As a moving tribute to a terrible 80's Charlie Sheen movie, I called the second half Music From Feels Like the First Time, Part Deux.
     If you read the book, you know how music moves me, and I did my best to explain exactly why I picked those songs. 
     By the way, Feels Like the First Time is free for a few more hours on Amazon. I can never know for sure what the future will bring, but this is the last free promotion I have planned for this book.
     I will have a new short story coming out in the next week or so, called Lucky Man. This story is what came about when I sat down and tried to write an episode of The Twilight Zone. I'm pretty sure that's a formula for success, isn't it? Writing stories for a TV show that went off the air 40+ years ago? In any case, I really like the way it is turning out, and I love the cover for the story that my so-talented cover designer Linda Boulanger did. I'm eager to share it with everyone.
     Thanks for reading!
 


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Angie
02/02/2013 5:52pm

I just finished reading Feels Like the First Time on my kindle. I love your story! It was touching and beautiful. I wish you and Dawn many years of happiness!

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02/02/2013 7:31pm

Thank you so much, Angie. Glad you enjoyed the book.

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Nicki
02/02/2013 7:53pm

I LOVED your story, Shawn and I've just told my husband to download it. He was born in 61 and is a muso - so many of your experiences, especially how strongly music plays a part in your life, I know he will definitely relate to.
The thing I loved most about your story is that it is true. To know that you and Dawn found your way back to each other shows that dreams really can come true. We all love a 'Happily Ever After'! Congratulations to you both.
I really enjoyed your writing and can't wait to read more from you.
Best of luck,
Nicki.

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Ginny Sutter
02/14/2013 11:15am

Shawn, I just finished reading your book and LOVED it! When I started reading it I didn't realize it was a true story, and then realized that it was. I had to see the pictures of you and your family. You and Dawn look PERFECT together and your story is so beautiful. I met the love of my life too soon also, but I never got the perfect ending that you attained. It is nice to see that it happened for someone! Best of everything.

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Lee Felts
03/09/2013 8:25pm

Shawn, the first love of my life emailed me and told me I needed to read this book. I was amazed at the similarities in our stories, including the timeframe. Ours was a brief romance (3 months) as my mother was caught in a relationship with her married boss. My love and I were forced to separate because I had to move home to Texas. I traveled back to Tennessee to see her and had plans to go to college up there and marry her. I found her on classmates.com around the time of our 20th high school reunion and almost met her there. We are still in touch and both happily married (both for over 20 years), but in a way we still long for the love that we had.

Thanks for sharing your story. This took me down many happy roads.

Lee

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03/10/2013 8:59am

Hey, Lee...


Thanks for reading the book and stopping by. Yes, I would say that we had many aspects of our stories in common... except that neither Dawn nor I were in anything like happy marriages. I've often wondered... if Dawn and I were in normal relationships when we found each other again, how would we have reacted. I have no way of knowing, of course.

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Andrea
03/13/2013 7:34pm

Hi Shawn,
I just got done reading your story and loved it! I'm 34 now, but I too met my husband when I was 15 and he was 19 - so I could relate. My parents were hesitant at first, but after they got to know my husband, they grew to love him and we've been together ever since. I'm sorry you had to miss out on so many years together, but I'm so happy you found each other again. Obviously you were meant to be together. I wish you much happiness!

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