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Author Sharon E. Cathcart
@sharonecathcart.bsky.social
Your next favorite escape starts here! Indie author. Happily married. Animal lover. Unabashed Disneyphile. Proud social justice warrior. She/her.

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On the day the RSC’s Macbeth closes, I step onstage for my own opening night.

That show changed my life; it brought me back to acting, sparked new friendships, and took my blog viral.

This is my final reflection.

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“What’s Done is Done”: Final Thoughts About Macbeth
The curtain falls on Macbeth in Stratford, but something new is rising here in California. Here’s how one show rekindled my love of acting, brought strangers into my life as friends, and reminded m…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Rest in power, Steve Cropper. #music

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Steve Cropper & The Animals - Knock on wood
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December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Someone impersonated Sam Heughan and scammed a vulnerable woman out of thousands. Her sister wrote to him. He answered with grace, and a warning.

I wrote about why we need to keep discussing this.

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A Word About Scammers, Kindness, and Why This Matters
Recently, I saw something that broke my heart. A woman — developmentally delayed, by her sister’s account — was targeted by a scammer pretending to be actor Sam Heughan. She was taken in for thousa…
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November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just hit 'send' on my first audition in ages. Cast list will be out 12/20. And now we wait. #theatre #ihopeigetit
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I managed to score an early-bird platinum pass to #LandConUS for next year. I am slowly learning to take moments for joy, and to stop hiding from the things I love. #outlander
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New “readers” on Goodreads sending you friend requests, but their profiles feel off? No books in common. No reviews. Just flattery?

Sometimes they even use Paul Hollywood’s face. Yes, really.

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📚 Beware the Bookish Scammer: A PSA for Readers and Authors
New “readers” on Goodreads are sending friend requests, but something doesn’t add up. Their books are random, their messages suspicious — and sometimes they’re posing as British baking royalty. A P…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Apparently, the law only matters when it’s not your side cheating.

Trump’s DOJ sues CA for redistricting — but not TX for doing the same thing to benefit him.
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#DemocracyMatters #SelectiveEnforcement
It’s Different When It’s Your Own
Trump’s DOJ sues California for doing what Texas already did—just for the wrong party. Add in retaliatory probes, absent scrutiny of allies, and a toddler’s sense of fairness, and we’re watching de…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I stepped back into acting after a long absence — as Dame Kitely in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour.
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#TheatreThoughts #ElizabethanDrama #BenJonson #AmActing
Returning to the Stage: Character, Caricature, and the Curious Case of Dame Kitely
After years away, I stepped back into the world of Elizabethan theatre—this time as Dame Kitely in Every Man in His Humour. But Jonson is no Shakespeare, and that’s where things got interesting. A …
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November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
💔 *In the Eye of the Beholder*

What if the Phantom met someone who *saw* him—not as a monster, but as a man?

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#FedibookFair #HistFic #PhantomInspired #IndieAuthor
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In The Eye of The Beholder by Sharon E. Cathcart
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November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🎭 Welcome to #FedibookFair!

I’ll be highlighting titles from my *Phantom-inspired backlist* this weekend—romantic, haunting, and full of heart. These stories explore grief, longing, reinvention, and the healing power of music.

#indieauthor #historicalfiction

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November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I will be returning to the proverbial boards this afternoon as Dame Kitely in a reader's theatre production of Ben Jonson's "Every Man In His Humour." #livetheatre #thespian4life
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
✍️ My voice: raw, lived, unfiltered. You don’t need to believe me — but I hope you’ll see.
“Enough: What I Know About Hunger, Dignity & the Cost of Looking Away”

#EnoughIsDignity #SNAP #Community

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Enough: What I Know About Hunger, Dignity, and the Cost of Looking Away
Tomorrow, the lifeline for millions in our country will fray. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits reach their expiration for many households, and already the chatter is loud: …
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I am greatly amused to report that I was carded while buying a bottle of #SassenachSpirits #tequila. (I'm 40 years past legal.)
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A palace of mirrors. A tree with a noose. And a disfigured man fleeing one ghost-haunted life for another.

Today’s Sample Saturday features a microfiction tale from "Through the Opera Glass."

#HistoricalFiction #PhantomOfTheOpera #IndieAuthor

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Sample Saturday: “Through the Opera Glass”
Theatre has always been about transformation: of story, of space, of self. As I reflect on an October filled with velvet curtains, candlelit stages, and unforgettable performances (Macbeth still ha…
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October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM