Related posts with shortcode

I really want to create a column inside a page for Similar “Stories from this author” All I need is a shortcode and I would be set? Is there one? Is there a work-around that works? @just0nequestion posted <?php similar_posts(); ?> about a year ago and it doesn’t work for me. I tried YARPP and it looks awesome but I can’t select author as a category (at least not that I could find, I would love to be wrong on that)