Shane Etter is a former high tech sales professional who started writing fiction to improve his brain after suffering a stroke. A member of The Indie Authors Wall of Fame, and a two-time nominee for Georgia Author Of The Year, 2020 and 2021 he has eight published novels including the supernatural thrillers—Bottom Dwellers, Mind Dwellers and Trail Dwellers, set in north Georgia and A Brain In Third Person, about a serial killer in Atlanta, A War In The Bronx, about rival drug gangs in NYC, A Brain In Third Person II, The Return of The Bad Penny; and Devil’s Sympathy, an international story about a writing professor at Oxford University who’s been traveling the world killing people for forty years. His newest, World of Rage, is a timely post apocalyptic dystopian story of survival.
Born with Spina Bifida but with no visible problems, Shane is a former member of the Board of Directors of The Spina Bifida Association of Georgia, and enjoys helping the sick and less fortunate.
His first novel, Bottom Dwellers, was named the best murder mystery of 2012 by publicist/agent John Weaver. A Brain In Third Person was named by Amazon Top 300 reviewer Cyrus Webb as, “One of his twenty-five favorite novels of 2018”. He named Devil’s Sympathy one of the Top Twenty-Five Fiction Summer Reads for 2020. Shane’s latest, World of Rage, was one of Mr. Webb’s top twenty novels of 2020.
Shane was born, raised, and educated in the great literary state of Mississippi, and called Atlanta home for 30 years. His writing is compared to Jim Thompson and Cornell Woolrich. Known for his surprise endings, his latest, World of Rage raises the bar.