Steph at Kingston Pride 2014
I’m Steph Shangraw. I live in southeastern Ontario, Canada, with rescued cats and their other human minion. In the limited time spent not writing fantasy, I play the odd computer game, colour while interesting podcasts play, and of course serve my feline overlords. I started writing over 30 years ago, have so far released several indie novels, and I’m drifting towards less-traditional web fiction. I have a quirky personal thing about never charging for my work, and will accept tips but prefer to write for love, not profit. Any money from writing goes towards kitty expenses.
What I write is, unsurprisingly, coloured strongly by who I am: pansexual, autistic, nonbinary (she/her), pagan, Gen X, struggling with disabling anxiety/depression. It’s also coloured by my silent co-writer Jacquelyn LaRonde, a nonbinary (she/her) disabled Gen X gamer who has done a lot in her life.
Find me elsewhere online at:
Linktree – Has all of this, kept up to date.
Discord – If you want to chat, I generally have Discord up in the background while I’m writing, and odds are high that if you drop by our quiet little server, I’ll be online writing. 
Or you can message me directly, I’m Prysmcat there too.
Scribble Hub – Everything I write is on here, some of it exclusively!
Itch.io – Shorts and novellas are pay-what-you-want, novels have a low price but there will generally be free community copies!
Patreon – If you want to give me money, although I’m still trying to figure out rewards and tiers, sorry.
Mastodon, Bluesky – I’m only on occasionally but will get notifications.
Threads – I guess I’m now on here too, and also sorta Instagram mostly for blatant self-promo.
Royal Road – Not really open to my kind of fantasy. I’ll be finishing Transposition here but not adding anything new.
Noveltrove, where my erotica was, no longer exists, since it was run by a single person who is MIA.
Smashwords, where I was releasing novels, merged with Draft2Digital and I’m not entirely happy about that.
Goodreads – I’m almost never on here. (Between us, I don’t much care for the site.) Also, I’m not doing ISBNs and such anymore.
Questions, complaints, compliments, or just saying hello – if you want to do it privately, you can drop me an email at prysmakitty@gmail.com or any of the methods above which mostly have direct messaging. If you want to, you can leave a comment below.
Steph with heart-baby Cory-Bear