Shane signed with PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc in August 2004. By November of that same year, PMA had acquired a deal with Starscape Books / Tor for The Adventures of Chance Fortune series. Chance Fortune and The Outlaws was released in July 2006.

Shane lives with his wife Lesley in Chattanooga, Tennessee and continues to work on the next books in The Adventures of Chance Fortune series, along with several other novels.