Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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Author of short story collection Beyond the Tripping Point (Blue Denim Press 2012) Writer, blogger, writing instructor, book editor who makes words sp
Author of short story collection Beyond the Tripping Point (Blue Denim Press 2012) Writer, blogger, writing instructor, book editor who makes words sparkle.
Blog about the craft of short story writing and Beyond the Tripping Point every Thursday at http://www.sharonacrawfordauthor.com
Writer-in- Residence CAA Toronto Branch. Founder East End Writers' Group. Marketing a memoir, "You Can Go Home - Deconstructing the Demons" about growing up an only child of elderly parents in the '50s and 60s when your dad is dying of cancer. Book excerpts and related topics and lifestyle issues stemming from this background posted every Tuesday at http://www.onlychildwrites.wordpress.com.
Two stories published in the Canadian Authors Association Toronto branch anthology "Gathered Streams" 2010 by Hidden Brook Press. See http://www.canauthorstoronto.org/anth...
I love helping writers with their writing, something I also do as a freelance book editor and through my writing workshops such as Memoir Writing and Crafting the Short Story.
And I'm a reading fanatic from when I was a child and my late mother shoved The Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew books at me. When the new library branch opened near me then, I became a regular visitor. I still haunt libraries and continually add books to hold on the Toronto Public Library's website. But I also buy books and have a vast collection. If I listed all my books I'd be here as a ghost well after I die. A few favourite authors are: Catherine Gildner, Peter Robinson, Maureen Jennings,Mary Jane Maffini, Sue Grafton, Marcia Meuller, Bill Pronzini, Lisa Scottoline, Harlan Cobenm Elizabeth George, Alice Munro and Diana Gabaldon.
In my spare time, besides the above I like to garden, walk, cook, and hang out with my friends.
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