still learning to tie knots

Random da Shea was born at a very young age in Northern California. She amuses herself with writing novels, short stories, screenplays, and blog entries, which she then foists off on an unsuspecting public. She is endlessly entertained by the modern concept of "real life," and also the Marx Brothers.

Her writing career started early on, nearly simultaneously with her career as an unrepentant pen-thief. She began writing stories as soon as she stole her first pen, at about age four; granted, these preliminary scribbles were difficult if not downright impossible to understand, and that certainly set the tone for her later works.

Though building a writing career is a slow and frustrating process, she has been published in the Dan River Anthology and online in Flash Me! magazine. Her first novel, Without Alice, was released in November of 2008.