I write blog posts, articles for sale, and books which are available in paperback and on Kindle. As long as I write what’s ready to come out, the words never stop flowing. Running out of words has never been a problem until recently, when I allowed logic to dictate what I should be writing rather than going with the flow.

I had already written and released a dog book, Bad Dog to Best Friend, and had the raw material for two more dog books. Logic would dictate that I should follow a dog book with another dog book, except it wasn’t a dog book that wanted to come out.

Next out the door was a Yankee in the South book which mentioned a booger dog in passing, following by a book for spouses of coin collectors, followed by an astrophysical murder mystery in which the word “dog” probably only appears once in relation to Isaac Newton’s dog.

Sometimes you have to follow your motivation and throw logic out the window. By letting go of the idea that a specific book or article should be next, you can open the door to let a flood of articles, books, or blog posts out the door. The words are always there but sometimes you have to let them channel themselves in their own way.

Once I stopped fighting it and embraced the flow, the words came out like a veritable gusher. Not only were the words flowing as fast as I could type them, the ideas were coming one after another bringing the most bizarre connections. I’d be writing about some obscure fact and I’d find a connection between that fact and another seemingly unrelated fact.

This was happening so often that I was in awe. It was almost as if the backstory of the astrophysical murder mystery book was writing itself. Was I plugged into some higher power that was feeding me the story? Was there a higher power guiding my words? The facts were truly stranger than fiction and they came together with such ease that I could not help but wonder if someone wanted the backstory told.

The astrophysical mystery started out as a work of fiction but by the time it was finished, there were so many bizarre and unusual facts that I ended up including a bibliography at the end. For anyone who would take an interest in strange facts as I do, the bibliography would allow them to answer questions such as, “Is this even possible? Could that be real? Did such a thing actually happen? Does that item exist? Was he a real person?” Only time will tell if I’ve found a niche among my fellow oddballs of the world.

So the next time you’re stuck like a cork in a bottle, take a step back and completely clear your mind of all logic. Clear your mind of what you THINK you should be writing. Pretend you’ve got a day off and can write whatever feels good in the moment. Embrace the flow of words that want to come out and let them take you on a journey. Tell yourself that it’s okay to write something totally unexpected, totally illogical, and totally off the predicted path. Follow your words and you will be amazed at the place they will take you. Pop that cork out of the bottle and watch the words come gushing out!

Atlanta, GA
January 13, 2012

Meteorites, murders, mysteries, and mayhem surround the secrets that unlock the door to zero-dimensional space in The Cantor Dimension. Solve the centuries old murder of Edmond Halley, Sr. in a place where the legendary Knights Templar hid their treasures and the Prince of Transylvania lost his head. Discover Charles Dickens’ obsession, Thomas Becket’s curse, bizarre occupations and even more bizarre laws in Kent County, England in the days of yore.

Fact and fiction blend together when people disappear in New York, Illinois and Tennessee. In Rochester, New York, a woman disappears. The memory of her existence is wiped clean from everyone who knew her except for one friend with a crazy aunt. In Utica, Illinois, a young man disappears. Nobody cares except for the one person who doesn’t believe in UFOs. In Memphis, Tennessee, Max disappears after a bank robbery leaving his clueless best friend Brody in charge of hiding his secrets from the police. What do these three disappearances have in common? The Cantor Dimension.

Albert Einstein, Edmond Halley, Georg Cantor, and Isaac Newton come together in a series of true accounts which sets the stage for time travel in this astrophysical mystery. One man’s obsession holds the key to the greatest discovery of all time.

The Cantor Dimension is available on Amazon.com in paperback or Kindle.

Paperback URL:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1468178067

Kindle URL:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006V4K5YK

About the author:

Sharon Delarose is known as “the strange girl who lives down the street” and The Cantor Dimension truly embraces her penchant for the bizarre, weaving hundreds of weird facts into an astrophysical mystery of time travel, murder, mystery and mayhem.

Contact info:

Author: Sharon Delarose
Website: http://books.gityasome.com

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In Rochester, New York, a woman disappears. The memory of her existence is wiped clean from everyone who knew her except for one friend with a crazy aunt.

In Utica, Illinois, a young man disappears. Nobody cares except for the one person who doesn’t believe in UFOs.

In Memphis, Tennessee, Max disappears after a bank robbery leaving his clueless best friend Brody in charge of hiding his secrets from the police.

What do these three disappearances have in common?

The Cantor Dimension…

Albert Einstein, Edmond Halley, Georg Cantor, and Isaac Newton come together in a series of true accounts which sets the stage for time travel in this astrophysical mystery.

Solve the centuries old murder of Edmond Halley, Sr. in a place where the legendary Knights Templar hid their treasures and the Prince of Transylvania lost his head. Discover Charles Dickens’ obsession, Thomas Becket’s curse, bizarre occupations and even more bizarre laws in Kent County, England in the days of yore.

Why did the Bats people worship the gods of time? What paradise did Cantor create from n-dimensional space? What was Isaac Newton’s greatest quest? Meteorites, murders, mysteries, and mayhem surround the secrets that unlock the doors to another world in The Cantor Dimension.

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January 13, 2012: Wow, just realized that today is Friday the 13th. How appropriate! Two historical events in The Cantor Dimension occur on Friday the 13th relating to the extermination of the Knights Templar and the Earl of Essex in this astrophysical murder mystery. Now available in paperback for $9.95 or on Kindle for $2.99, The Cantor Dimension blends scientific fact and science fiction to open a wormhole through space-time. What will you find on the far side?

December 30, 2011 update: She’s on the move again and in the final stages. Super excited about this one! This astrophysical mystery is definitely a thinker.

August 27, 2011 update: This book just hit the editor’s desk. He’ll mark it up for changes, the changes will be made, and then it will go to press. The title stays under wraps until final press, when the book is sent in to be copyrighted.

Tired of neckties, hats, shirts, wallets, cufflinks, and other boring anniversary gifts? Just give your spouse a little nudge in the right direction and anniversaries can become exciting occasions of coin gifts.

Silver certificates, gold certificates, Woodchopper bills, paper money with pictures of Indian Chiefs instead of presidents, obsolete currency, fractional currency, silver and gold bullion, three cent nickels, half dimes, and other coin collectables can be your new wedding anniversary tradition. Coin gifts can even match the traditional wedding anniversary gift tables! Imagine that!

No matter what the anniversary category, whether it be your cotton anniversary, fruit and flowers, lace, silk, sculpture, crystal, real estate, furniture, groceries, and even original poetry, Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Coin Collectors offers suggestions for coins, paper money, gold bullion, and silver bullion to match the anniversary category.

From anniversaries 1-100 you will never need another anniversary gift guide. This one’s got you covered, happily forever after.

If you collect coins, give this coin book to your spouse. The sooner the better because you don’t want to miss out on the coolest anniversary gift ever. If you are the spouse looking for gift ideas, look no further because nothing delights a coin collector more than coins.

Available in paperback and Kindle, don’t delay. Start your new wedding anniversary tradition TODAY!

For spelling and grammar you rely in part on programs such as Word, but you shouldn’t stop there. Just because a book passes the spellchecker doesn’t mean that there are no errors. Four example, in this sentence yew can sea how easily the spellchecker can miss errs. In addition, a book with a lot of dialog will have errors simply because people do not speak with perfect wording and grammar, so you must rely on your own ability to find errors simply by reading the book.

A good writer can find something to tweak every single time they go back over it, so when do you close the book and say that Done is Done? Part of you wants to let it go out into the world and part of you strives for perfection, creating a tug of war.

As long as you are adding to, or deleting from, the actual storyline, the book isn’t done yet. If you are rewording sentences, moving sentences around, or frowning over certain passages, the book isn’t done yet. When something is tugging at you because it just doesn’t feel right, the book isn’t done yet. When you look at the cover image and have lukewarm emotions about it, the book isn’t done yet.

When you get to the point where the changes you are making are small potatoes, that’s when you know that the story is done. When you can look at the cover image and smile… when you can read the book and enjoy the story rather than finding things to nitpick over… THAT’S when you know it’s time to let go and send your child out into the world to make friends.

The friend sat across from me and spent a couple hours working diligently on her homework assignment. When she was finished with her homework I printed it out for her.

I noticed immediately that there was a spelling error so like a teacher correcting a test paper I circled the word in red. I did not tell her the correct spelling, only that the word was in error.

There turned out to be a number of errors and every time she’d fix an error, she’d add a new one. When the other girl came in to check on her, she told the girl that the spellchecker on the computer had missed a word.

I thought to myself, “Say WHAT?!” Surely you are kidding me! This felt wrong on so many levels. First of all, spellcheckers do not miss words that are spelled wrong unless the boo boo is actually a real word. Secondly, nobody should rely solely on a spellchecker; everyone should read the final version with their own eyes to look for errors. And finally, I couldn’t help but wonder if kids were no longer expected to know how to spell a word.

One word that she’d misspelled was “belief.” She had spelled it “beleif.” A spellchecker would have caught that so she must not have run the spellchecker. I asked her if she knew the rule for determining whether it should be “ie” or “ei” and she said no. That rule was so ingrained in us back in the day.

“I” before “e”, except after “c”, or when sounded as “a” as in “neighbor” and “weigh.” That’s the rule I was taught in school. So in spelling the word “belief”, it would be “i” before “e” as it doesn’t come after a “c” and it doesn’t rhyme with “day.”

Another word that she misspelled was “character.” She’d spelled it “charter” three different times. The spellchecker would not have flagged it since “charter” is an actual word. The only way to catch such an error is to proofread it for yourself without relying on a computer program to do all the work.

This girl went through so many revisions that I was dumbfounded. I have no idea what they teach in school nowadays but if she is any indication, the Board of Education should be forced to watch the movie Idiocracy which was written, directed and produced by Mike Judge. I could not help but wonder if I were witnessing the dumbing down of America as showcased in the movie.

Get lost in Arkansas and chased through Alabama by a bad man. Meet up with a cop under the watchful eye of the Big Chicken. Experience the Ku Klux Klan through the eyes of two tough, Yankee bikers.

Explore the gritty side of the South in this mostly true tale of life in the South for a Yankee girl during the 1970s and 1980s. The truth is beyond anything a Yankee can imagine or prepare for. The bugs are meaner, dirty old men are everywhere, and the Brotherhood of Rednecks is out to get you.

From the memoires of Sharon Delarose, find out what sends Yankees hightailing it back North again. Meet the beauties and the beasts of the Deep South.

March 23, 2012 update: The 99 cent Kindle offer has expired, but you can still get Yankee Go Home for $2.99 on Kindle or $9.95 in paperback.

1. A children’s book which is fully written, and waiting only for the illustrations to be finished.

2. A nature book, partially written and photographed, is also in progress.

In addition, currently existing only as thought trees and wanna-writes, are a hippie book, a weirdness book, a happiness book, a UFO book, and an estate book. The closest thing to an actual genre are the dog books, with all others being unique unto themselves.

The voice however, is pure Delarose, no matter the genre, so stay tuned…!

For those who loved Bad Dog to Best Friend, we’re simply letting you know that yes, we do plan to answer the question: What happened to Dakota and how is she doing now?

The short answer is: You’d never know she was once a bad dog. Today we leave her with full run of the house and we don’t worry at all. She’s been on many more road trips and she’s a seasoned traveler. We adopted another shelter dog, who has become Dakota’s companion, and Sierra’s book will cover the puppy months.

Both books will include training tips and dog stories. The books exist in a very raw form, including a detailed diary of all things dog, but neither book has been officially written. We’re just giving you a heads up of what’s in the works.

The 99 cent Kindle sale has ended, but you can still get Yankee Go Home for $2.99 on Kindle, or $9.95 in paperback.

November 14, 2011 update:

The paperback version of Yankee, Go Home is live. Look Inside should be available any day. You can already Look Inside the Kindle version, so if you’re super hot to trot to get a taste of Yankee, check out the Kindle version

November 9, 2011 update:

I approved the updated proof of Yankee Go Home today. It is now in the process of becoming available on Amazon in paperback. As soon as the paperback version is fully live, I’ll post the link. The paperback version is $9.95 while the Kindle version is $.99 cents. The Kindle version is already available and you can get it here.

November 3, 2011 update:

The proof for the paperback arrived yesterday. I did not approve it as I found a blooper on the cover. It’s a small blooper so I won’t reupload the cover to my websites, but it bothered me just enough to redo the cover for the paperback book. This puts the new ETA for the paperback release of Yankee Go Home as sometime next week. Can you find the blooper?

November 2, 2011 update:

The 99 cent Kindle version of Yankee Go Home is live!

October 28, 2011 update:

A book about the South through the eyes of a Yankee is in the publishing process. The 99 cent Kindle version has been uploaded and is awaiting approval. The paperback proof copy is on its way to me, and I’ll either approve it, or make minor changes and resubmit it.

Be on the lookout because you’ll see it posted here first! The minute I have an Amazon link, I’ll be posting it for you