Sharon A. Crawford, a former journalist, is a freelance memoir and fiction writer, writing consultant and instructor, blogger, book reviewer, editor and sometime actor. Sharon is the author of the Beyond mystery series, the short story collection Beyond the Tripping Point (Blue Denim Press, 2012), and her latest novel Beyond Blood (Blue Denim Press, Fall 2014). In the May 2013 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Jon L. Breen in his “Jury Box” review of Beyond the Tripping Point called Sharon A. Crawford “a Canadian writer of promise.”Sharon has appeared with her Beyond mystery books along with other Crime Writers of Canada authors in libraries, cafés and Word on the Street. Her main Beyond character, private investigator Dana Bowman, has shown up at book launches, fundraisers and other presentations. Sharon also belongs to Toronto Sisters in Crime, The Toronto Heliconian Club, and runs the East End Writers’ Group. She was Writer in Residence for the Canadian Authors Association, Toronto branch, 2009-2014. Her hobbies: reading, walking and gardening act as catalysts for her next novel. Check her website at www.samcraw.com and her author blog www.sharonacrawfordauthor.com