


He teaches and mentors writers at Lexington’s Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.ġ. An Iowa native, Shaffer lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, novelist Tiffany Reisz.

Shaffer attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and studied comedy writing at Chicago’s famed The Second City. He also is the publisher of 8th Circle Press. Nick, the quirky greeting card company whose cards have been featured on The Colbert Report. He is the owner and creative director of Order of St. He has appeared as a guest on NPR, FOX News, and CBS, and has been published in McSweeney’s, Mental Floss, and The Daily Beast. He has also penned several spec film and television screenplays. Marlene King and The Vampire Diaries’ Paul Wesley producing. He has been nominated by readers for a Goodreads Choice Award for Humor.Ī television drama based on his novel-in-progress Tapped is currently in development at Freeform, with The Pretty Little Liars’ I. Andrew Shaffer is the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery, the parody Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, and numerous other humorous works of fiction and nonfiction.
