Shawn Speakman grew up in the beautiful wilds of Washington State near Mt. St. Helens. After moving to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, he befriended New York Times bestselling fantasy author Terry Brooks and became his webmaster. It has led to a life filled with magic and words.

He was a manager at one of the largest Barnes & Noble Booksellers in the country for many years but now owns the online bookstore The Signed Page, manages the websites for authors Terry Brooks and Naomi Novik, and freelance writes for Random House at Suvudu.com.

Shawn also contributed the annotations to THE ANNOTATED SWORD OF SHANNARA by Terry Brooks, as well as edited and published the bestselling anthology UNFETTERED.

Shawn is a cancer survivor, knows angel fire east, and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.