J.L. Shenstone

At the moment I am working on a novel in collaboration with my best friend and co-writer Daisy C. Lythe. We have a website that we are working on also (www.shenstoneandlythe.wordpress.com) which will include all our other endeavours.

I am also getting a collection of my poetry ready for self-publication. This is something I haven't done before so I am learning a lot along the way.

I'm editing a few short scripts I have written and preparing them for competitions, etc. My partner is a producer so we plan to produce one of my short scripts next year. I'm also involved in the NYC Midnight Screenplay challenge (@nycmidnight) which means in a week or two I have to write a short screenplay in 48 hours.

And finally, I'm producing a short film I wrote with Daisy. I'm working with an amazing team of people and I get to see my words come to life, which is always a great honour.

This is interesting because I just learned this myself. I discovered that I have spent about twelve years writing poetry and out of the hundreds of poems I have sifted though I am willing to show about 10% of them to the world. This was a humbling experience.

So basically this collection is going to be the last ten or so years of my life with the boring stuff cut out.