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Sharon Bidwell

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Born

The United Kingdom

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http://www.sharonbidwell.co.uk

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Horror, Fiction

Influences

Neil Gaiman, Angela Carter

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July 2017

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During Sharon’s writing career she’s lived in a house with a Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs, shared a publisher with the creator of Roger Rabbit, and has taken a trip to Jupiter. Only one of these has been in her imagination.

The first short story she submitted — Silver Apples of the Moon — was accepted by Roadworks Magazine. The editor announced her as “a writer who is going places” and described the story as having “both a Sci-fi and horror element,” and being “strong on characterisation, and quite literary, in terms of style.” Subsequently, she was approached to write all reports and publicity material, including a piece for translation into Braille for The Really Wild Nursery and Arthritis Care Breaking Down the Barriers garden p
During Sharon’s writing career she’s lived in a house with a Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs, shared a publisher with the creator of Roger Rabbit, and has taken a trip to Jupiter. Only one of these has been in her imagination.

The first short story she submitted — Silver Apples of the Moon — was accepted by Roadworks Magazine. The editor announced her as “a writer who is going places” and described the story as having “both a Sci-fi and horror element,” and being “strong on characterisation, and quite literary, in terms of style.” Subsequently, she was approached to write all reports and publicity material, including a piece for translation into Braille for The Really Wild Nursery and Arthritis Care Breaking Down the Barriers garden project, which took place at the Malvern Spring Show.

Since then, her work has appeared steadily in both print and electronic publications, such as Midnight Street, Aoife’s Kiss (Sam’s Dot Publishing), Night To Dawn, and Radgepacket (Byker Books). Her short story — Bitter and Intoxicating — was snapped up for inclusion in the anthology Red Velvet and Absinthe. This compilation, edited by Mitzi Szereto with a foreword by Kelly Armstrong, was designed to evoke the romantic ethos of classic Gothic fiction with a serving of eroticism. With a repertoire of twisted tales and a love of cross-genre writing, it surprised everyone (including herself) when she branched out into erotic romance. These works have been critically acclaimed and often described as ‘deeply passionate’.

Sharon’s worlds are vivid, unexpected and sometimes intensely magical. Sharon writes whatever her warped mind can come up with and is quite capable of writing something darker, grittier, and even outright twisted. Though her love for all things Myth and Legend has led her to write under more than one name, from 2019 she's using S.M.Bidwell for her Dark Fiction.

She was propelled into the Steampunk universe of Space, 1899 and beyond, winning approval of series creator and award-winning game designer, Frank Chadwick, with three books, one of which was co-authored with editor (and writer) Andy Frankham-Allen, and subsequently led to her writing for the Lethbridge-Stewart series, and a short audio story for Doctor Who, performed by Katy Manning. ...more

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	Red Velvet and Absinthe by Mitzi Szereto (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Zander Vyne (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.42 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Infinite Today by Sharon Bidwell (Goodreads Author), Katy Manning (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lethbridge-Stewart: A Very Private Haunting (#14) 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lethbridge-Stewart: The Wishing Bazaar (#8.1a) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloodlines: The Shadowman 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mundus Cerialis (Space: 1889 & Beyond, Vol. 2.2) by Sharon Bidwell (Goodreads Author), Andy Frankham-Allen (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fistful of Dust (Space: 1889 & Beyond, Vol. 2.4) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Draco Eye (Space: 1889 & Beyond Book 14) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Texture of Winter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bibliography of chemical waste disposal, 1969 - May 1979 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Book of Elsewhere (audio), Keanu Reeves and China Mieville (read by various)

A novelisation based on the Brzrkr graphic novels written by Keanu Reeves. Normally, I love China Mieville’s work, but something about this felt off. Entertaining with numerous themes o

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Sharon Bidwell rated a book really liked it The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A reread for me and another intense and well-plotted thriller from Dean Koontz. A second read after many years was as enjoyable as the first. If I can think of a con, I guess it’s that the bad guys in many novels come across as extreme odd-balls with ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book liked it Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Some hidden gems, but mostly I can’t help feeling this book should never have seen publication. There’s little here of the man that Emma Thompson mentions, and the man I would like to think Alan Rickman was. I heard a comment saying the book makes hi ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book really liked it The Darker Arts (Frey & McGray, #5) by Óscar de Muriel	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Although I enjoyed this book as much as any in the series, and it certainly had me on the edge of my seat when a character’s life was threatened, I found certain elements of the conclusion a little too convenient. Still, the book is as well plotted a ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book it was amazing The Loch of the Dead (Frey & McGray, #4) by Óscar de Muriel	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this one in part because it was set on some islands, taking Frey and McGrey out of the city. The remoteness added another layer to the suspense, and also caused both men to cease arguing so much, making them more of a team with an actual se ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book liked it Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas: Festive Tales with the Tenth Doctor by Steve Cole	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Easy to listen to set of stories starring the tenth Doctor and various companions. Like most anthologies, I liked some stories more than others, so I’ll simply say I enjoyed the penultimate story, and the split bookend story starting and ending the b ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book it was amazing Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I wish I’d had the time to listen to this in one sitting. There’s still something about having a story read to you that takes book lovers back to their first experience of story-telling. I’d forgotten how good this book is, and listening to this over ...more
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Sharon Bidwell rated a book it was amazing A Mask of Shadows (Frey & McGray, #3) by Óscar de Muriel	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The third in the Frey and McGray series. I like that the author has taken a different approach with each of these books. In this, the story is told in reports, action-based narrative, and interlude’s of Bram Stoker’s journal. Weaving historical fact ...more
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I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first in this seven-book series, but it was still solid and entertaining. A touch slower than the first novel but not annoyingly so. The arguments between Frey and McGray escalate for various reasons and are as ...more
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Top marks mostly for the level of enjoyment, but the plot is well-worked out, with believable characters with credible back stories. I love the way Frey and McGray rub each other the wrong way. Nothing slow about this story weaving historical facts w ...more
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Untreed Reads: MUNDUS CERIALIS is an Absolute Please to Read	1	1	Mar 07, 2013 10:03AM
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Untreed Reads: MUNDUS CERIALIS: For Fans of Anything and Everything	1	2	Aug 06, 2013 03:21PM
Untreed Reads: A FISTFUL OF DUST (Space: 1889 & Beyond Vol. 2.4) by Sharon Bidwell	1	3	Oct 07, 2013 11:10AM
Untreed Reads: Discover Fear in A FISTFUL OF DUST by Sharon Bidwell	1	3	Jan 03, 2014 04:17PM

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