054 S02E16 Getting in the flow with Selena Shapland

Finding Elara

Guest Bio

Selina Shapland is a certified fiction book coach who uses her developmental editing knowledge and skills to guide aspiring authors through the shadows of storytelling. She has studied fiction since 2008, and she writes paranormal mysteries, romance and horror too.

Angels, demons, ghosts, psychics, spirits, vampires, witches, werewolves and monsters populate her stories. Gods and Goddesses grace her fiction pages and she loves sprinkling magic throughout her fictional worlds.

The worlds Selina creates often intersect with our world, but there's always something lurking on the other side of the veil to be discovered by her lead characters.

In Selina’s writing world, the paranormal is normal, mysteries plague her latest work in progress, and sweet to medium heat romance connects enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, and old crushes with new levels of love with a dash of spice.

She lives in Holbrook NSW with her leading man. She’s a poodle mumma, a cat servant and an art dabbler.

Links

Contact Selina

Website: https://empoweredwords.com.au

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selinashapland_dev_editor

Substack: https://empoweredwordsfictioncoach.substack.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selina.shapland.empowered.words

Things you can enter

WHATS IN THE CHEST

From Selina: Tarot reading for character development on zoom.

From Angela: 2x Ebooks for 2 winners (both books each)

Elanor and the Song of the Bard and The golden dragon awakens.

From Jessie: Access to her Book Blurb Magic Course. From BCP:2 x $25 Voucher

Treasure chest Give-away 2: (open 17/06/2025 closes 19/07/2025)

https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/treasure-chest

Otherworldly emergence Novella: (Open 05/07/2025 Closes 07/07/2025) https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/emergence

Contact the Team

Finding Elara Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FindingElara

Discord : https://discord.gg/Ap8EWpPn

BCP Website: www.bcpcreative.com.au

BCP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bcp.creative/

BCP Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bcpcreative

Contact Dianna

Website: www.dlnix.com

Facebook: (DL Nix) https://www.facebook.com/Faepatriantales

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingelara/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@findingelarapodcast

Sponsor Info

Book Reality https://bookreality.com/

Shadow Lair: https://ko-fi.com/findingelara

Show Notes\

• 20 years of experience writing fiction
• Studied how to write and how to coach others.
• Developmental Editor and book coach for empowered words
• Romance Writers Australia inspires romantic elements
• Loves the research
• Mindfulness: Getting in the moment
• Connecting with the earth, drawing on the elements.
• Overwhelm: Has notebook with checklist.
• Writes problems on paper and puts it a rock salt jar.
• Tip: be kind to yourself. Have a structure that works for you.
• Writing sprints with Buddies
• Look at the structure before you look at the polishing of the words.
• To stay Motivated: Hire Book coaches.
• Drawing you need to be fully present in the moment. Helps with Mindfulness
• She is still finding herself as a writer.

Quotes By Selina

Writers need to know themselves

There’s nothing wasted in the writing journey as far as stories are concerned

Fast Fire Questions

1. Would you rather be a table or a chair? Chair
2. Are you a dog person or cat person? Dog
3. Who is your favourite superhero? Wonderwoman
4. If you were to have a magical power what would it be? Telepathy
5. What is the first think you would do with a huge lotto win? Stop working and write full time then travel to New Zealand

Buffy Night

Tru Blood – Books and TV Series

Selina was inspired about the parallel world and how they made vampires mainstream. Supernatural beings with real life problems.