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- Title
- Mama Does Time
- Author
- Sharp, Deborah
- Publisher
- Llewellyn Publications
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0738713295
- ISBN 13
- 9780738713298
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 0.902 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
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About the Author
Like the main character in her Mace Bauer Mysteries, her family roots were set in Florida long before Disney or Miami Vice. As a native and former reporter for USA Today, she knows the spots not found on maps: Molasses Junction. Muse, and now, Himmarshee, her own tiny slice of Authentic Florida.
To create Himmarshee, Deborah borrowed from the present-day ranching town of Okeechobee, and from the south Florida of her familys past.
Not far from Ft. Lauderdale, her dad used to walk to town, leading the family cow. A generation later, Deborah rode her horse over the same citrus- and ranch-dotted terrain. Now, its all interstates and strip malls.
The difference between Maces hometown and hers: Deborah will never let Himmarshee be spoiled by sprawl.
The News-Press in Fort Myers gave Deborah her first job, in 1982. Her favorite assignment: getting cast as a zombie when Day of the Dead filmed on Sanibel Island. Her fellow extras raved about her lurching.
A News-Press bonus: she met TV reporter Kerry Sanders in Immokalee, both of them shivering at dawn to see whether a winter freeze would ruin the green pepper crop. Theyve been married since 1989. No kids; no pets, but had goldfish once. Turned out badlynot a good omen for higher life forms.
When they moved back to Deborahs hometown in 1991, the occasional stories shed been writing for USA Today became a flood. Miamis loony nature gives it a lock on headlines.
And then, 9/11, and everything changed. One of her last assignments before she left the paper was profiling soldiers killed in war. Grieving parents; spouses; kids. She couldnt absorb all that sadness anymore.
So, at age fifty, fiction-writing beckoned. Shed get to determine the endings. Punish the bad and reward the good. And, shed throw in some romance, too.
She likes writing about Mama because the character makes her laugh. And doesnt everyone need a smile now and then?
TV APPEARANCES
? NBC's Today Show from November 4, 2008
? "Mayor's Book Talk" from January 14, 2009
? NBC6 "South Florida Today." from July 17, 2009
? NBC's Today Show from August 4, 2009
? WJXT-TV from November 17, 2009
? NBC's Today Show from August 24, 2010
? NBC's Today Show from December 28, 2011
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