About Sharon​

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Sharon quietly creates space where you are welcomed and respected as a reader. You’ll be rewarded by the poignant stories, and gritty, quirky characters of an inspired writer with a surprising range.
  
Sharon is an award-winning author and highly experienced professional writer. She snagged her first paid writing assignment while still in college, and has been writing and editing ever since. She has had hundreds of writing assignments, including newsletters, speeches, advertisements, direct mail, trade show collateral, product literature and web content. She recently finished writing more than 70 blog assignments for commercial sites.  Sharon is an expert in inbound marketing, and all forms of writing (including ghostwriting).  

In addition to her commercial work, she has written an award-winning novel, and has been published in both fiction and nonfiction, winning multiple awards.  She is known as a craft-oriented literary writer, and in particular for her taut prose in short fiction.  Her short story "Knife River Flint," was published in the recently released anthology, Rozyln:  Short Fiction by Women Writers as well as in T​esserae: A Mosaic of Story.  
Sharon's latest work, a collection of short fiction entitled Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story,  came out in the fall of 2015 (Alacrity House Publishing, LLC).  Two of the stories in Tesserae were finalists in the Colorado Authors' League Annual Awards contest for 2016:  "Cowboy Heart" and "Knife River Flint."  please read the "news" column to the right to see which one won!

Sharon has a B.A. in English  and an M.A. in Communication, and has taught public speaking for C.U. on and off since 1992.  If you want to learn from a published professional who has a proven track record in teaching, writing, and selling her work, then Sharon is the perfect choice as writing coach or instructor.  (Go to the "contact" tab in this website to connect with Sharon.)

Sharon's greatest joy is living creatively, and this is reflected in her lifetime of writing and her years of designing, building, birthing, and breathing life into Villa Jubilee (see www.villajubilee.com).  

For more information, please check out Sharon's Facebook and Amazon Author pages.

News​

CIPA EVVY Merit Award Winner!​

"Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story" is a Merit Award Winner in the Colorado Independent Publishers Association's (CIPA) EVVY Awards for 2016 in the "Fiction-Contemporary/Literary" category. Winners were announced on August 20, 2016.   Award winners list is available here. 

Colorado Authors League Award

Knife River Flint," published in Rozlyn: Short Fiction for Women and Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story in 2015, was a Puschart nominee and won the Colorado Author's League (CAL) 2016 Annual Award for Short Fiction.  You can read about the award here.  Congratulations to all the CAL winners!

Watch the Book Beat Video!

This is fun!  I was one of the featured authors for the CAL Book Beat at the Denver Press Club on April 22, 2016.  The video is now available -- please check it out.  It’s worth watching the first two minutes, where @DenverPressClub is introduced. I’m the last of four authors to be interviewed. Obviously, you can watch the whole thing if you want, but if you’re short on time and want to skip to my part, it starts at 34:15. Check it out, especially if you’re interested in #shortfiction.  I promise, it’s interesting! #bookbeat #notboring

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"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."  Duke Ellington

Recent Activity: Awards and Readings

Sharon won the Colorado Author's League contest in Short Fiction for "Pockets," announced in May 2015.  Read about the contest and awards at the Colorado Author's League website or the Denver Post.

Sharon's short story entitled "Pockets," is included in the juried anthology Progenitor Art & Literary Journal 2014. The Progenitor is the beautifully produced journal of Arapahoe Community College, published once a year. 

"Pockets" is flash fiction, less than 1000 words, and is a masterful example of short story writing, with a lovely twist at the end. The judges said, "Lovely story, quiet and simple at first, but it grows. We get a trim sketch of a woman with unexpected depth."

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