Shannon K. English

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MEET SHANNON

Shannon K. English grew up in the bleak and beautiful landscapes of northern England. She is inspired by mythology, fantasy of every kind, and powerful narratives about characters struggling with terrible choices. As an asexual and panromantic author, she tries to tell the representative sci-fi and fantasy stories she loves to read. Her favourite writers include Ursula K. Le Guin, Shannon Hale and Jack London.

Shannon K. English is represented by Moe Ferrara at Triada.

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ENDLESS BLUE BENEATH

Surfacing June 9th with Orbit

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In this hauntingly romantic, queer fantasy debut, a young mermaid is forced to choose between her old life above the waves and her new life below them.

On land, Eppie will never be anything more than the outcast girl who kissed the grocer’s daughter. But beneath the water’s surface lies a future and a society she could never have imagined. Stolen from the shore, she is transformed. Eppie is stronger, swifter—and hungrier. Human flesh smells like heaven on earth, and Eppie is ravenous.

Despite the horror of her new appetites, Eppie learns to love this strange second life. The mermaid colony is mesmerizing and Eppie’s new sisters are fiercely loyal. And when Eppie meets Marie, a stunningly beautiful mermaid with a past as shadowed as her raven-black scales, she finds she no longer needs to resist the desires that were denied to her on land.

ENDLESS BLUE BENEATH

Dark fantasy with sapphic flesh-eating mermaids and a little edge of horror. Book 1 of Daughters of Atlantea, releasing June 2026 with Orbit US.

On land, Eppie will never be anything more than the outcast who kissed the grocer's daughter. Now she’s a mermaid with a hunger for human flesh. Marie is ocean-born with secrets of her own. As the colony’s newest daughter, Eppie feels the jaws of her new mother closing around her. When the mermaid-hunters close in, she must choose a side: her lost humanity, or the love of a girl who lies.

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THE LIGHTYEARS BETWEEN US

YA scifi with sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance and forced spaceship proximity, published December 2025 with Tiny Ghost Press.

Seventeen-year-old noble, Will Arrex, is ice cold and painfully poised –– everything an Arrex should be. Her classmate Paige Tarrant is a different story. The two girls were destined to be bitter rivals, but when they wind up piloting one of the doomed Laika ships together, their mutual hatred begins to thaw. Laika 15 was never meant to come home. Trapped in the vastness of space on an impossible mission, Will and Paige must bridge the lightyears keeping them apart if they want to survive.

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BLUE SKIES ABOVE

Book 2 of Daughters of Atlantea, releasing June 2027 with Orbit US.

Marie and Eppie try to move on, but old secrets are still festering. Marie must make a choice: her old family or her new love, her human dreams or her mermaid roots. Something stirs in the depths; are their enemies truly gone?

CLEARANCE TO LAND

YA steampunk science fantasy with sapphic romance and a living airship on her way to sentience. Self-published in 2023 and available on Amazon.

Humanity dwells among the clouds in teetering skyscrapers, cut off from the world below. Deep inside the Tower Glorious, in the workshop of Technomancer Elric, a mind awakens. Terravis is a sentient ship designed to go where humanity cannot - down below the clouds to reclaim their lost lands. But Terravis is growing and changing, and how long will she want to obey?

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