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Bio & Credits
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Sharon grew up in Connecticut, the middle child of eleven. An avid horse lover at an early age, she would beg her dad to find horses during the family's drives in the countryside on Sundays. She collected glass horses and kept a scrapbook of horse pictures. As a teenager, she learned to ride and care for horses while a working student for Lee's Riding Stable in Wilton and later in Litchfield.
She graduated from Norwalk High School, Norwalk CT, in 1972 as a junior so she could move with the stable. At 15, she purchased her first horse, a weanling colt named Charcoal, with her babysitting funds. He died before he was a year old but that didn't deter Sharon from saving for her next horse, a pregnant mare. She sold the foal and traded the mare for another pregnant one. The result was Fawn, born April 21, 1972. Fawn's life, and death 18 years later, was the reason that Sharon began writing.
Sharon wanted to share Fawn's story because the mare was very near and dear to her heart. So she took writing courses from the Institute of Children's Literature, West Redding, CT and graduated in 1991. Her final writing assignment was to submit an outline and three chapters of a children's book. The result was Sharon's young adult adventure story, The Delmarva Conspiracy, which was published by Greene Bark Press, Bridgeport, CT in 1993. She also wrote The Jack Russell Terrier, published by Dog Fancy Magazine in October, 1990.
Later, Sharon learned more about writing by serving as a field correspondent for the News Eagle and the Wayne Independent, local newspapers covering Wayne and Pike Counties in PA, from 1997 - 2000. Since 1997, she has been a freelance writer for Horse News, an equine publication covering the horse industry in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She was creator and editor of Stable News, a bi-monthly publication that was published in 1997 and later sold to Horse News. She has had numerous articles published in Trenton Times, Scranton Times, Pocono Record, and other local newspapers. Recently, she's had horse articles published in Blood Horse and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Breeders magazines. She is also the editor for the Pennsylvania Equine Council's newsletter and state directory.
Currently, Sharon and Bob travel throughout the United States interviewing riders at horse shows for PhelpsSports.com, the new online news agency for horse enthusiasts, as well as marketing her books. The Miners have six adult sons, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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