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Sharon A. Crawford

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in Toronto, Canada

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http://www.samcraw.com

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Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Home & Garden

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The M and M Author of Mystery and Memoir.

What happens when one particularly nasty character in an author’s life shows up as a fictional character in one of his or her novels?

“Why you just make her nastier” says Sharon A. Crawford, author of the Beyond mystery series and the memoir The Enemies Within Us. “And change her name, of course.” Sharon did much more with Sister Olsen in Beyond Faith.

And there is a connection between my memoir and Beyond Faith - a nasty nun. Both PI Dana Bowman my main Beyond books' character and I had a nun who bullied us in grade school. My tormenting nun did a lot worse than Dana's. But in Beyond Faith Dana has the opportunity to confront her nasty nun as an adult, something I never did.

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Some of you may be wondering what has happened to the East End Writers’ group which I have been running since 2000, especially since COVID arrived and our meeting location – S. Walter Stewart library branch as well as the whole Toronto Public Library in-person closed down for some time. You may also be wondering where I have been. Well, on Facebook and via Email and Zoom, but some of my s

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- Sharon Langevin Crawford”
― Sharon Langevin Crawford, Fire Underneath the Ice

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“Half my life is an act of revision.”
― John Irving

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“All of us who write need a good editor.
- Sharon Langevin Crawford”
― Sharon Langevin Crawford, Fire Underneath the Ice

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“All of us who write need a good editor.”
― Sharon Langevin Crawford, Fire Underneath the Ice

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“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis

tags: motivational, on-writing

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“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
― Charles Péguy, Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

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message 1: by Ben

Oct 10, 2012 11:08AM

Hi Sharon,
I knew from Shane Joseph that your book will be launched on Nov 4. Sorry that day is taken up for me.
Yes, I am busy writing and editing and giving writing workshops to WEN members. My new book of bilingual short stories (English and Konkani) has come out in Goa, India. After my illness four years ago, I don't drive or go out at night, so no longer with CAA.
Best wishes and much success to you.

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