
All about Shane Joseph…
Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his first short story collection, Fringe Dwellers, in 2008. His novel, After the Flood, a dystopian epic set in the aftermath of global warming, was released in November 2009, and won the Canadian Christian Writers award for best Futuristic/Fantasy novel in 2010. Shane’s last collection of short stories, Crossing Limbo, was published in 2017. His latest novel, released in 2022, is Empire in the Sand, a tale of pharmaceutical scandals, robocalls electioneering, and family breakdown. His short stories and articles have appeared in several Canadian anthologies and in literary journals around the world.
His career stints include: stage and radio actor, pop musician, encyclopedia salesman, lathe machine operator, airline executive, travel agency manager, vice president of a global financial services company, software services salesperson, publishing editor, project manager and management consultant.

From the Blog…
Check out Shane’s latest thoughts from his blog.
Have Publishers Outsourced Their Slush Piles to Literary Agents?
It is now a given that you can’t submit work to a major publisher without going through a literary agent, for there are no more

Lament of a Forgotten Son
My heart mourns for Sri Lanka today when I see the pictures of lineups for gasoline and food, and the mass protests on Galle Face
Occupy Ottawa
This article was turned down by my regular publications when submitted in late February, for there was uncertainty about its reception. Then other geopolitical events
Do Sanctions Work? Cuba Begs to Differ
The West has launched economic warfare on Russia with its severest sanctions yet, in the hope that they would cripple the country faster and with
What Readers are Saying…



Currently Reading & Reviews…
Here are the latest books Shane has read and written reviews of.