Sharon Zink – Editor
Dr Sharon Zink is a former English Literature academic, having studied at London and Cambridge, who has over eleven years’ experience of editing and creative writing teaching.
Her first novel, Welcome to Sharonville (Unthank Books, 2014), was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and is currently being developed as a TV series and she has won numerous awards, such as being named as Young Poet of the Year and Writers Inc. Writer of the Year, as well as being shortlisted three times for The New Writer Short Story Award and for The Raymond Carver Prize.
She is very proud that many of her clients have gone on to get agents and deals, including bestselling authors, Amanda Prowse and Kathryn Hughes, as well as the twice Macmillan-published, Mark Gartside, and Kate Glanville, whose books are with Accent and Penguin US.
She has recently helped Helen Fisher’s novel become the lead title for Simon and Schuster in 2020.
Genres Sharon specialises in
Fiction:
Contemporary | |
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Literary (including ‘bookclub’) | |
Crime / Thriller / Action | |
Women’s | |
Romance & erotica | |
Science Fiction | |
Fantasy | |
Comic/Satire | |
Paranormal | |
Short stories & novellas | |
Young Adult | |
Plays and screen scripts | |
Psychological thrillers | |
Sharon’s published books
Welcome to Sharonville
Welcome to Sharonville
Engrossing work of character and psychologically driven literary fiction set in ‘anywhere-ville’ USA. The inhabitants of SHARONVILLE are forced to re-examine the truths they have lived by while a precious member of their community is lying in a coma.
Client Successes
Space Hopper
Space Hopper
This is a story about taking a leap of faith and believing the unbelievable. They say those we love never truly leave us, and I’ve found that to be true. But not in the way you might expect. In fact, none of this is what you’d expect. I’ve been visiting my mother who died when I was eight and I’m talking about flesh and blood, tea-and-biscuits-on-the-table visiting here. Right now, you probably think I’m going mad. Let me explain…
Although Faye is happy with her life, the loss of her mother as a child weighs on her mind even more now that she is a mother herself. So she is amazed when, in an extraordinary turn of events, she finds herself back in her childhood home in the 1970s. Faced with the chance to finally seek answers to her questions – but away from her own family – how much is she willing to give up for another moment with her mother?
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