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May.11.2013
Some friends are as close as sisters. Others closer. Like melt on ice, or your first gasp of breath rising up from a river baptism. Carolina Slade, federal agriculture investigator, considers Savannah Conroy such a friend -- and Savvy’s in trouble. Falsified signatures on a six-figure farm...
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Apr.27.2013
THE LAST ORACLE is, by far, the best James Rollins novel I've read. Hmmm...probably since SANDSTORM. (And I've read a few well-crafted Rollins novels.) Now, TLO starts a bit slow so I urge readers to stick with it. Once the pace picks up, the reward is nonstop action and pulse-pounding, tug-on-the-...
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Jan.19.2013
WE HAVE OUR WINNER! Congratulations to Connie Dingman, winner of a Kindle Fire HD8.9" 4G LTE Wireless tablet in the Independent Author Network's Christmas give-away. This prize package, sponsored by The Wardstone Trilogy by M.R. Mathias, inlcuded hundreds of ebooks in a multitude of genres and...
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Dec.02.2012
To celebrate the holidays, the Independent Author Network is awarding a Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G LTE Wireless tablet to one lucky reader. This prize package, sponsored by The Wardstone Trilogy by M.R. Mathias, will inlcude hundreds of ebooks in a multitude of genres and penned by members of the...
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Nov.24.2012
In October, the Deer Park Independent School District (Texas) adopted a tax rate of $1.5267 - including the rate of $1.2367 for M & O (which I assume means Management and Operations). It is this portion of the adopted rate that has spurred a special Tax Rate Election or TRE to be held on...
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Nov.02.2012
Proving his Grandpa Buck outbests all the other grandpas in Slumber Village becomes an exploration in pride and unconditional love for young Rowdy in Marta Cappa's THE BEST GRANDPA IN THE WORLD (ISBN 978-1452856629, 40 pages). Particularly when Rowdy's friend, Jinx, boasts that her grandfather was...
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Jun.25.2012
The oh so reader-friendly website fReado.com is hosting a Summer Romance Festival starting June 25 and running through July 31 in celebration of sizzling romances penned by 120+ authors from around the world. I’m thrilled to have my novels, HOODOO MONEY and MANGROVES AND MONSTERS, included as...
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May.01.2012
I feel the need for a vent. My husband and I live in Deer Park, Texas. Near the Houston Ship Channel and in the heart of the petrochemical industry. We’ve lived here about 35 years, since our children began school in the seventies. Deer Park is a lovely city of 32,010 citizens (according to the...
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Mar.10.2012
Rules were absolute; that’s the way she was raised. If she followed the rules, she’d be just fine…
Uh-uh, honey. Not this time. Not for Carolina Slade, County Manager, United States Department of Agriculture. Slade's professional life has blitzed from the structured normalcy of bailing out farmers...
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Oct.31.2011
Building his cabin near the Clearwater River in Idaho, Travis Mays hoped for solitude, peace…renewal. A cleansing of his soul. Yeah, right. And just how does an ex-cop wash the darkness from his past when he holds himself responsible for the brutal death of the woman he loved?
He doesn’t.
Not...
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Oct.17.2011
What do you do if you’re transported to a mystical room brimming with colorful animals, curious plants and flying books? And what if you hear voices coming from inside an ancient wardrobe in this peculiar and puzzling place?
Should you run? Hide?
Absolutely, positively not!
If you are Mikolay...
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Sep.11.2011
Phone, instant messaging and email, Facebook or Twitter. Best of all, in person…I’m able to interact with my kids and grandkids (and I do mean GRAND!) any day of the week. We laugh, commiserate, share funny stories and photographs. We share life—and love.
Birthdays, Christmas. My grandkids put in...
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Jul.24.2011
Finding a suitable match for his spoiled daughter, Princess Rose, proves quite the challenge for King William in Susan Ross’ THE ROSE AND THE LILY (ISBN 10: 0981063462, ISBN 13 978-0981063461, 36 pages).
Knights are too tall or too short. Lords too plump or thin. Too old fashioned. Not rich enough...
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Jul.19.2011
In reviewing Say Please to the Honeybees (ISBN-10: 0981063438 ISBN-13: 978-0981063430, 32 pages) I find myself delighted to once again visit the antics of Violet, the affable “trouble magnet” in Farmer Shepherd’s flock.
Trouble magnet, you say? Violet . . . that dear little sheep?
By no fault of...
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Apr.21.2011
Over the years I’ve read a lot of children’s books to our grandchildren, now ages 6 to 13, but it isn‘t often I get the opportunity to review such a book. I’d say The Great Bellybutton Cover-up by Susan Ross (ISBN-10: 9780981063409, ISBN-13: 978-0981063409, 32 pages) could easily become a favorite...
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About Sharon
Like most writers, I always had a head bursting with scenarios and a. . .drawer, shoebox, folder. . .of unfinished manuscripts. My first short story, "McTammany's Bed of Roses," appeared online in The Emporium Gazette, Issue 46, February 2003. With...
Sharon’s Favorite Books
Tami Hoag's Cry Wolf, Dark Paradise, Prior Bad Acts