Sharon C. Pennington





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Sharon C. Pennington

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April 23, 1948 in Freeport, Texas, The United States

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Like most writers, I always had a brain bursting with scenarios and a . . . drawer, shoebox, folder . . . of unfinished manuscripts. My first published story, "McTammany's Bed of Roses," appeared online in The Emporium Gazette, Issue 46, February 2003. With that sale, I earned enough to buy a novel in the paperback section at Wal-Mart or a couple of trade-ins at the local paperback swap-n-shop.

But I was a published author at age 54 - and I was flying!

Why did I wait so long? I grew up during a time when parents believed daughters should take typing and shorthand, master a keypunch machine, become competent fodder for the secretarial pool. You can't make a living as a writer, you know.

So I worked in office and museum and university settings...more


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 2010 census). A nice place to visit. A nicer place to live. The neighborhoods are quiet and safe, and...

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Published on May 01, 2012 12:20 • 4 views
Average rating: 4.09 · 44 ratings · 17 reviews · 2 distinct works
Hoodoo Money
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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McTammany's Bed of Roses (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm
Description: If a figment of your imagination entered your real world, what would you do with him? Or, perhaps. . .without him?
Hoodoo Money (Mystery & Thrillers)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm
Description: A romantic suspense novel set in contemporary Louisiana and Texas
Mangroves and Monsters (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Nov 06, 2009 07:44am
Description: For five long years Charlie Cooper's love survived while he searched for Angeline St. Cyr, the supermodel presumed dead. Will finding her cost him his life?

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Lowcountry Bribe
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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 fro...more
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Revenge (A Travis Mays Novel)
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recommended for: Any reader loving a good mystery or police drama.
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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 d...more
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message 2: by Robin

Robin Hi, Sharon, Your website, at http://www.sharonpenningtonwrites.web..., is refreshingly rich in content. I like how you've spotlighted other authors and incorporated so much media -- videos, book covers, and the like.
Just thought I'd mention it!


Sharon I've only recently delved into novels by James Patterson - in particular, his Alex Cross series. Thrilled to have found four in hardcover while resale shopping today with my daughter and granddaughter: Double Cross, Four Blind Mice, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Cat & Mouse. Can't wait to get started reading. Also found Deep Storm (paperback) by Lincoln Child. It will be the first of this author's novels I've read that wasn't co-authored by Douglas Preston. Should be interesting.


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