Author, Shara Smock
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www.sharasmock.com
Female
102 years old
PALM BAY, Florida
United States
Last Login: 12/14/2009
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Author, Shara Smock's Interests
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| General | music, art, mysteries, traveling, comedy, rocks from around the US & Canada (I have indoor and outdoor rocks), hot air balloons, fragrant candles, ocicats, dollhouses, stained glass, butterflies, Mensa, and watching surfers. Animal rights, animation, architecture, artists, firefighters, astrology, dreams, felines, flowers, gig, jewelry, kittens, ocicats, lions, tigers, leopards, m.c. escher, originality, solitude, creativity and madness. | | Music | John Mayer, Sting, The Police, Howie Day, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Norah Jones, Zero 7, Dave Koz, Enrique Iglasias, Everything But the Girl, Sheryl Crow, Natalie Merchant, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Joss Stone, Double, Dusty Springfield, Bee Gees, Beatles, Bon Jovi, B.B. King, Carly Simon, Dave Matthews, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Coltrane, Art of Noise, Pavarotti, Seal & Heidi Klum. | | Movies | Music and Lyrics, Inconvenient Truth, Crash, Three Days of the Condor, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Lake House, Amadeus, Under the Tuscan Sun, Unfaithful, Robert DeNiro's version of the John D. MacDonald novel Cape Fear, Back to the Future, All the President's Men, The Birds and other Hitchcock movies, Cocoon, Premonition, Movies by Rob Reiner, Ron Howard, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Ed Harris. Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gear, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Sean Connery, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chevy Chase, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Phillip Michael Thomas, Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Brian Denehey. | | Television | House, Hugh Laurie, Criminal Minds, Sherman Moore, Medium, American Idol, Men in Trees, Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, Dancing with the Stars, Figure Skating, In the Actor's Studio, old Cheers, Golden Girls, Mad About You, Becker, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue back when Jimmy Smits was on, Carol Burnett, Lucy, Smothers Brothers, Ted Danson, Oprah, Pernell Roberts, Blair Underwood. | | Books | John D. MacDonald, Michael Connelly, Lisa Scottoline, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Carl Hiaasen, Gene Wolfe, Earl Emerson, Edna Buchanan, James W. Hall, Loren Estleman, Lisa Gardner, Jodi Picoult, Janet Evanovich, Paul Auster, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Cornell Woolrich, Robert Frost, Poul Anderson, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, Ed McBain, Tim Green, Gene Wolfe, Earl Emerson, Anne McCaffrey, Stuart Woods, Janet Asimov, Margaret Chittenden, Michael Connelly, Larry Niven, Jean Hager, James W. Hall, Poul Anderson, Mary Balogh, Jennifer Blake, Courtni Wright, Laurence Shames, Dana Stabenow, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Barbara Paul, Fern Michaels, Loren Estleman, C.J. Cherryh, Mary Jo Putney, Greg Bear, David Brin, Brian Herbert, Claire Delacroix, Yvonne Navarro, Les Standiford, Aileen Schumacher.
Gene Wolfe, Anne McCaffrey, and Arthur C. Clarke are just three of the SF authors who gave me original material about their favorite openers for my book Hooking the Reader. Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell (by Shara Rendell-Smock) Living with Big Cats (by Shara Rendell) See http://www.sharasmock.com
| | Heroes | Einstein, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Jack Hanna, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kurt Vonnegut, Sartre, Camus, Edison, King Arthur (partly because he's in my family tree). |
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Author, Shara Smock's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate |
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Publishing - Writer - Non-fiction
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Author of books, Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell, and Living with Big Cats: The Story of Jungle Larry, Safari Jane, and David Tetzlaff. Presently writing an informative and humorous book on garbage haulers with Mary Brotherton. see garbag
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Marketing - Sales - Sales
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Authors of a Work in Progress, we will be working as hard to market our book as we are writing it.
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Publishing - Writer - Other
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Author, biographer, researcher, former newspaper columnist and former technical writer. I generate ideas, research, interview, process data, and write the book. I also edit other authors' work.
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Author, Shara Smock's Companies
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A Garbage Book (in progress)
FL US
Co-Writer
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2007-Present
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Cat Writers Association
Foster City, CA US
Professional Member
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1995-Present
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Florida Writers Association
Merritt Island, FL US
Board Member
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2005-Present
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Space Coast Writers Guild
Melbourne, FL US
Member
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2006-Present
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota, FL US
Columnist
NYT company
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About me:
(formerly Shara Rendell-Smock)
See my album for pix of pets who have lived with me or currently do, as well as my book covers.
My current project the book Let's Talk Dirty About Garbage. Kathryn Taromina and I are co-writing an informative and humorous book about the men and women who collect garbage. If we use YOUR story, we will send you a FREE copy of the book, autographed by both authors. For more on this, see www.myspace.com/garbagebook.
One of my books shown in the logo on this page is Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell. This book contains original material from more than 100 bestselling authors writing about their openers in fiction (mystery, romance, science fiction, western, mainstream).
WHAT hooks the reader?
Try these opening lines…
Regina Dalton snapped awake the instant the coffin lid closed. Jennifer Blake, Kane
She figured it came down to a choice between going to work or committing murder. Aileen Schumacher, Affirmative Reaction
Standing in front of his dresser mirror, the young man pointed the revolver at his reflection. James W. Hall, Under Cover of Daylight
then read what these authors say about their openers.
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Living with Big Cats was my book about Jungle Larry, Safari jane, and David Tetzlaff of Naples Zoo in Florida. I followed the trainer with my tape recorder as he answered my questions as he chopped meat to feed his tigers, trained young leopards to join the leopard act, washed down cages. This book has more than 100 professional photos of their lions, leopard, and tigers throughout their thirty-five years in the animal business. Behind-the-scenes stuff. Like Jack Hanna, who I also spoke with, the Tetzlaffs showcase an animal's natural behavior. See www.sharasmock.com or amazon.com for more.
Prior to writing fun books, I wrote a column for The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and more than thirty computer software manuals and numerous features online and for magazines, and newspapers.
I'm the secretary of the Florida Writers Association. This pro group has fun people who attend informative meetings in most counties in FL. We also have many online benefits and it's no longer just for FL. We currently have more than 700 members. You can see this site at www.floridawriters.net.
See www.sharasmock.com for details, reviews, and how to buy any of my work.
Thanks for stopping by!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who works to help our earth survive
tiglons and ligers
authors, artists, photographers
Johnny Depp
Hugh Laurie
Native Americans
Barack Obama
Sally Field
George Clooney
Oprah
People I can interview (nationwide) for the garbage book I'm writing with coauthor Kathryn Taromina: Garbage Men/Women, Recyclers, Trash Haulers, Sanitation Workers
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Author, Shara Smock has 2017 friends.
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~words cannot express my appreciation for you loyal friendship and kindness. You brighten my day in everyway. I sincerely prayer this is the best holiday season for you. You are the sweetest human being I've ever met.
