If Scully from X-Files and Sam from Supernatural were siblings raised like Dexter...
Book Title: Mythos Unbound, by
Shayla Morgansen Genre: Urban fantasy horror
Release Date: 1st of February, 2025
Where to But it: Amazon
From the Blurb:
Would you know a monster if you saw one?
Finn Bryant lectures in mythology by day and moonlights as a supernatural hunter, tracking the glamoured ‘Shadow Kin’ he alone sees walking among us. Ghouls, vampires and other monsters have come for him since before he can remember, and he’s spent his life learning how to take them down - before they can get to him or his beloved found family.
Evie Bryant doesn’t see the supernatural in her line of work, profiling serial killers for the FBI. Her brother’s fascination with folklore feels a world away from Evie’s reality of violent crime scenes and broken lives, even if it’s been noted more than once that her talent for reading people is a little… eerie.
When a series of brutal murders with a mythological overtone prompts Evie to consult with Finn on a case, the siblings find themselves hunting the same killer. Evie will do anything to distance her brother from her work, but Finn can’t walk away from this one. But whose monster is it? And what might it cost these siblings to find out?
About the Author:
Shayla Morgansen is an urban fantasy author from Brisbane. After taking a few years off from writing and marketing to focus on her new baby, Shayla is back with Mythos Unbound, book 1 of the Shadow Kin Chronicles, which funded on Kickstarter in 44mins! In her working life, Shayla is a former classroom teacher now working as a teaching academic while completing her PhD in publishing studies. Her research areas are fanfiction and creative writing pedagogy, and she can talk for hours about old-school genre shows like Stargate, BSG and X-Files.
More About Shayla Morgansen:
How long does it take you to write a book? How long does each stage of the process usually take?
It's so unique to each book. I've done some ghostwriting that took a few days. I wrote a 600k fanfiction over 18months in my spare time. It's taken me 12 years to write my series of six 120k novels and I wrote one of them across a single summer. I wrote Mythos Unbound's first draft in NaNoWriMo 2019 and then spent years revising and editing. I pile too much onto my plate and that makes projects stretch out, but I'm generally a fast writer.
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What is your favourite type of character to write?
Layered characters I get to know as I write them.
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Do you mine your own life for ideas, settings and/or characters?
Yes, I wanted to limit the extra research for the Shadow Kin Chronicles to just the mythology and forensic knowledge sets, so I made Finn's job the same as mine. He's a level up from me but the academic world is familiar enough!
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What is something you wish you had known earlier on in your writing career?
That there's plenty of time! It's easy to get caught up in comparing to others who have different circumstances, and that's not fair to yourself.
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What do you do when you find yourself in a bit of a writing rut? Is there any strategy you find works for you to help the words start flowing again?
I work on something else. Something is always moving forward that way.
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What's next for your writing?
My main priority for this year is to get my thesis done so I can dedicate more energy to my fiction and my creative career. Then, just more books! Mythos Unbound is the first of five Shadow Kin books and I have my other series to wrap.
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