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Sharon Geltner

Sharon Geltner

Sharon Geltner’s career has spanned social work, social climbing, social media and more recently, social distancing. She’s worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C., and Boca Raton, FL, written for celebrity authors, and traveled the world on assignment including to the Mideast as a war correspondent. Her achievements include a national award for Outstanding News Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and being the founder of National Net Needs News Day (#NetNeedsNews), a journalism appreciation campaign. Learn more about Geltner’s journalism career on MuckRack. Geltner’s experiences in elite Palm Beach philanthropy inspired the fun mystery and satire Charity Bashed, a semifinalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel contest. She is currently writing her next book, a Washington thriller spanning 60 years and three continents.

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Sharon Geltner

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Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Anderson Books in Naperville, IL

Pictured: Susan Buschmann, bookseller (for around 15 years) Interviewee: Candy Purdom, events & publicity coordinator for 17 years Owner: Becky Anderson — once ran for Congress, now overseeing construction of her new home in Michigan this summer —∞— Store Awards & Recognition Include: 2002, 2015  Lucille Pannell Award - Best…
Sharon Geltner
August 20, 2021
FictionThrillers

A Wintry Murder Mystery That Will Give You the Shivers: “The Well of Ice”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Well-of-Ice-1.jpg “Never open a book with weather,” the late bestselling crime novelist Elmore Leonard sternly advised. But Leonard was wrong. Here’s how Andrea Carter begins her Irish mystery novel, The Well of Ice (Oceanview): “…the fire crackles gently in the grate… “‘It’s snowing,’ he says…” Carter’s richly detailed descriptions of…
Sharon Geltner
November 10, 2020
Fiction

Family History and Foreign Travel Inspire Multi-Era Historical Novel

Author Michael Newman has lived many lives, from being the only child of Holocaust survivors, to 12-year-old Hungarian refugee, to self-made real estate magnate in Ontario, Canada. His father’s wartime experiences, including surviving the Mauthausen Nazi death camp, inspired Newman to pen his first novel, Between These Walls (FriesenPress). In…
Sharon Geltner
October 5, 2020