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Interview with Fiction Characters by Fiction Characters – Part 42
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection But first an announcement from Sharon A. Crawford. My prequel novel, Beyond Blood, is being published By Blue Denim Press this fall (2014). That...
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Short Story and Novel Writing with Same Characters
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection You can’t write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those...
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Writing conferences help writers
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection This country’s crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the...
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Proofread your writing – always
Click on the book cover to go to amazon.com Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your...
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Juggling time to publicize first novel and write second novel
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. – Steven Wright I am doing the happy dance because my first novel Beyond Blood will be...
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Author Editor Relationship – keep it professional and respectful
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection Your editor is not your ninth grade English teacher (at least I hope not) and is not there to rap your knuckles for forgetting some arcane rule....
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Get motivated to write that novel or short story.
I Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer. —Gerald Brenan You want to start writing that novel but can’t seem to...
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Some thoughts on marketing your published book
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. – A.A. Milne - The book cover for my new...
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Final touches on books make a difference
Amazon.com link to Sharon A.’s short story collection Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving Tuesday evening I commiserated with Klaus Jakelski, the other mystery novelist being published in...
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Authors – read from your book or chat too?
Cover of Sharon A. Crawford’s mystery short story collection “Be awesome! Be a book nut!” — Dr. Seuss While touring around southwestern Ontario, Canada to promote my upcoming mystery novel Beyond...
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Beyond Blood my mystery novel debuts amid promo frenzy
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. Nicholas...
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Book launch of Beyond Blood has two guest authors reading
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any. Jane Russell. This just in. Nate Hendley who writes true crime...
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Beyond Blood shows up in print
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three...
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They’re back – PIs Dana Bowman and Bast Overture in Beyond Blood
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. Jeffery Deaver As the book launch for my...
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Beyond Blood – open the door to…
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. John Buchan Two uninvited visitors have just...
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Beyond Blood –…and open the door again…
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than...
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Beyond Blood’s twin PIs receive ominous phone calls
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up. Nancy Kress Dana speaking into her cell: What do you want? Voice on the other end:...
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Come to Sharon A Crawford’s Book Launch Sunday Oct.19
Sharon A Crawford author of Beyond Blood published by Blue Denim Press Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up. – Nancy Kress Dana is scurrying around The Attic Agency Office when Bast walks into...
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Book Launch Beyond Blood Musings
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press This country’s crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood...
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Dana Bowman interviews author Sharon A Crawford
Cover of Beyond Blood by Sharon A. Crawford, published by Blue Denim Press I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about...
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