: About Me

Putting thoughts to paper is frequently far from being as easy as redesigning a Furby. Even so, my novels are being published. The first volume of the Sunset Investigations series is now available on-line, at Synerg eBooks. http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_grandmotherisakidnapper.html Also at Amazon, in the Mobi Pocket and Kindle sections.
Another Man's Castaway, is on the Synerg site, too, http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_anothermanscastaway.html
as well as on other Internet book sites. Also published are, Norahs, and the first volume of the Sunset Investigations series. Soon up will be volume 2, and a western, Adios Desperada. The ever growing Maxcine & Isabel series will also be available in the near future.

Additional interests are ruining material trying to make quilts, pruning trees into weird shapes and turning photos of my Chihuahuas into silly animations.

I have many literary works available. Having written well over 50 novels in the last 17 years, they've been getting published on the internet since 2006. The following is taken from an interview with Sharon Kull in her home state of Arizona in July 2008.

"Free the mind and create a story. Breathe life into that story, and it will never be forgotten. The reader does not just cross a scene, it is experienced. Think about it. A person enters a hotel lobby with the intention of checking in at the reception desk. That room is not vacant, why shouldn't the reader be given a clear mental picture of what is there? As a matter of fact, if the lobby were to be vacant, it is still worthy of description. Anything that sets the mood, adds to the flavor, or contributes to the enjoyable experience of reading, is worth including in the manuscript. This is the way I write."

Sharon's literary efforts began in August of 1991. Every day since then she has worked on a manuscript, even if it was only one sentence. The habit of doing this was the result of reading another author's suggestions of how not to, one day, wake up to the realization of, "Yipe! I haven't worked on my manuscript in four months!"

So with the ebb and tide of family growing through birth, and shrinking through death, she has followed that advice, and will continue to do so.

Her first novel, Where's Maggie?, was tapped out on her grandfather's antique Royal typewriter. Hubby off to work, daughter off to school, there she sat at the kitchen table creating a story. She has since learned you don't start at page one and go straight through to, The End. These days instead of a typewriter, typewriter eraser, carbon paper user, Sharon is a three computer writer, with a different manuscript in the works on each of them. In addition, there is the handwritten text of a fourth in progress. "Do you get the tales confused?" she was asked. Her answer was a solid, "No." She furthered that by saying they are as different from one another as children, and just as complex. Sharon did admit that having several computers does help. Each one is assigned a story, so that when she sits down in front of it, her mind immediately centers on that cast of characters and their issues.

"Finding a publisher is far, far, far more difficult than dreaming up a story," Sharon said. "It's a vicious circle. You can't get your foot in the door, until you've already gotten your foot in the door. Doesn't make sense? You bet it doesn't!" She also said that mailing hefty manuscripts wasn't cheap, that dollar sign shaped postage stamps seemed to float around in the air around her.

Sharon actually smiled when she declared, "There are also those publishers who require cash before they'll even glance at a manuscript. One such termed the fee as, 'Small potatoes, but necessary.' To which I promptly skipped outside to my mulch pile and dug up a pinto bean sized potato. Into the mail it went, with a reply coming in short order. Along with praise for thinking of the 'joke', was of course the rejection."

When E-mailing came along, submitting manuscripts got a whole lot cheaper. She could also send them off without driving to the Post Office. However, finding a publisher remained difficult. One outfit did say they'd accept manuscripts from unpublished authors. That was correct. They did. They also felt it their duty to order editorial changes with willy-nilly abandon. Change names. Change the title. Change these words, for those words. Change the personality of the main character. Change story line. Change style of writing. So Sharon changed publishers. Now SynergEbooks is getting things done!

Sharon exlained that series wise, Detectives Ryan and Curtis are partners in Sunset Investigations, located in sunny Tucson, Arizona. Along with their capable girlfriday, they solve a wide variety of cases. These are not stodgy, grim lipped people who have been soured on life. Whether dealing with killers, kidnappers or krazies, a touch of their humorous personalities shows through. They seem real, they seem like the kind of individuals you'd enjoy the company of at your backyard barbecue.

Another series, this one far more humorous than serious, is the adventures of Maxcine & Isabel Sykes. Beyond their golden years, the fiesty sisters have the knack of stumbling across crimes that are just too interesting not to become involved in. Sharing a home in Phoenix, Arizona, their adventures quite often have them taking to the road. From a flaming warehouse in California, to a beach in New Jersey, to a resort in the making located somewhere in Florida, the seniors will not be sidetracked from whatever the heck their mission at the time is. Yeah, right. Sidetracking should be their middle names. There are times when family members become involved in helping to kick criminal butt.

Westerns, horror, romance, and non-series mysteries. Adios Desperada, features a young woman who becomes a charming outlaw while traveling westward in a wagon train. Norahs, The Alien's Caretaker, is what another woman becomes. At first she doesn't like it, but then... As for the lovey-dovey stuff, Another Man's Castaway has some of that, but as with all of her romances it is kept lighthearted. If a reader is after detailed intimate encounters, they'll be disappointed. A charmer of a mystery, Izzat You, Richard?, revolves around a young woman and man who are sent back from Heaven to solve their separate murders, as dogs. She's now a Boston Terrier, and he's a miniature Doxie. They have the power of speech, but only between themselves.

Well, I suppose you get the gist, if Sharon Kull thinks it, she'll write about it. Her rule of thumb is to manipulate a manuscript into a tale she would want to read, because trying to please every reader is a fool's errand. Some can never be satisfied, while others are pretty much always satisfied. Where ever you fit on that scale, I invite you to dive into a good read that will take you away from daily routine and plop you into one of Sharon Kull's worlds.

Novels now:

1. Another Man's Castaway - romance Norah's, The Alien's Caretaker - horror

3. Adios Desperada - western

4. She Who Flies With Doves - western

5. Sunset Investigations, volume 1, Did You Say The Grandmother Is A Kidnapper? - mystery

6. Sunset Investigations, volume 2, Gnome - mystery

7. Sunset Investigations, volume 3, Half A Dozen - mystery

8. Sunset Investigations, volume 4, Time For Crime - mystery

9. Sunset Investigations, volume 5, Sinister - mystery

10. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 1

11. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 2, Down & Dirty - lighthearted mystery

12. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 3, Skyjacked - lighthearted mystery

13. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 4, The Ming Thing - lighthearted mystery

14. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 5, Hershel & Gavin - lighthearted adventure

15. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 6, Waterfall Of Youth - lighthearted adventure

16. Sugar Cookie Moon

17. Saturday Night Cowboy

In the near future:

1. Maxcine & Isabel, volume 7, Swindle Me Sweetly - lighthearted mystery

2. Sunset Investigations, volume 6, Laugh Not - mystery

3. The Woman Nobody Wanted - romance

4. When Pigs Fly - romance

5. Izzat You, Richard? - mystery

6. Who's The Guy in Your Flower Bed? - young adult

7. Sunset Investigations, volume 3, Half A Dozen - mystery

8. Sunset Investigations, volume 4, Time For Crime - mystery

9. Sunset Investigations, volume 5, Sinister - mystery

Some of the places where the books are:

SynergEbooks.com [ publisher ]
YouTube
Myspace [ photos of covers only }
helium [ articles and short stories ]
Amazon
Mobi Pocket
Writer Online Books
Fiction Wise
Ebooks on Board
Fictionwise eBooks
KnowBetter ebookStore
Google for more listings

My passion is ...

To write, to sew, to write, to pig out on Chocolate.

I know too much about ...

doing housework. Yuck!

My parents always told me ...

To stand up straight.

My childhood ambition ...

To trade my siblings for a horse.

My favorite memory ...

Delivering baby goats.

Why I write ...

If I don't write, all of the stuff in my head concerning characters and plots will turn to concrete.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

All I read are the classified ads on Chihuahuas. I haven't watched an entire tv program since August of 1991, and I listen to talk radio.

My first job ...

My first job was setting pins in a bowling alley.

My best moment ...

My best moment had to be when I learned that one of my novels had been published.

My inspiration ...

The fact that my talents were God given is my inspiration. He gave them to me, and I "will" use them!

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Historical romance

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Adios Desperada "Pack up your paints and bloomers, Ashley, we're heading west!" Sammuel bellowed as he slammed open the backdoor to their pale yellow little house and stomped into the kitchen. His coat was wide open, exposing a blue plaid shirt crossed by red suspenders. About to set a kettle on the stove, she hesitated, swinging her gaze to focus on her husband of six months. The sight of him nearly always set her twenty year old heart to thumping, and not only because he was just about the most handsome man she'd ever seen. However, at this moment there was every temptation to bop the ke...

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