Shawn Conner

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About Shawn Conner

I love interviewing people and finding out what makes them tick. I'm happiest when writing about subjects I am interested in but know little about and talking to people who are experts in their fields. Among the people I’ve interviewed: Patrick Chan, Dave Grohl, Megan Follows, Pat Benatar, Michael Kaeshammer, Annette O’Toole, Styx, Kevin Smith, Iliza Shlesinger, Chelsea Handler, Rick Mercer, Douglas Coupland, Sarah McLachlan, Morgan Wallen, Rosanne Cash, Bryan Baeumler, George Thorogood, Tony Orlando, Carly Rae Jepsen, Colin Mochrie, Gwar, Gino Vannelli, Louise Penny, Melissa Etheridge, Robbie Robertson, Marlon Wayans, Todd Rundgren, William Gibson. Publications I’ve written for include the Globe & Mail, USA Today, The Tyee, West Coast Homes and Design, and the Georgia Straight. I’ve talked to musicians, DJs, novelists, poets, comedians (the worst!), figure skaters, hockey players (including at least three Canucks), business leaders, ghostwriters, marketers, branding strategists, choreographers and dancers, cartoonists and graphic novelists, actors, film and theatre directors, visual artists, performance artists, chefs, bartenders, HGTV personalities, interior designers, homebuilders, social media influencers, trivia night hosts, acrobats, fight choreographers, nutritionists, reality-TV show contestants, computer animators, baristas, historians, photographers, retired math teachers, magicians, cosplayers, Icelandic puppeteers, playwrights, personal trainers. Among the topics I’ve covered: cybersecurity, social media, ghostwriting for business leaders, personal branding, thought leadership, cocktails, non-alcoholic drinks, trivia nights, craft beer, restaurants, brunch, health, wallpaper, streaming TV series that disappeared without a trace, friendship, dating, sex, relationships, comic books, immersive Van Gogh, immersive King Tut, immersive Picasso, Whistler luxury hotels, Disneyland, the Rocky Mountaineer, NFTs, pandemic restrictions in the arts, the female gaze, body positivity, Vancouver’s subsea industry, reality-TV series about BC heavy vehicle rescue companies, animatronic dinosaurs, folk horror, Winnipeg cable access television, Vancouver housing, BC real estate, Meowfest, record stores, podcasts, video games, ukuleles. I have been a tech columnist (TVW Magazine) and a dating, relationships, and sex columnist (for Lavalife.com).