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Sheila Sharpe, Mystery Author ✍️
@sheilasharpeauthor.bsky.social
Novelist, artist, psychologist. Loves mysteries, art, music, and dogs. 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief available now! https://www.sheilasharpe.com for more...
I can become obsessed with every mark and brushstroke on the canvas. As if every mark is a note of music and they all have to come together to be coherent, like a symphonic composition – and then it will sing the song I want to sing.

~ Suzy Murphy

#QOTD
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained.

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective https://ow.ly/i5wK50WEENg

"Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss."

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

#MondayBlogs
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The artist grips his idea and will not let it go until it has blessed him, as the angel blessed Jacob.

~ Cecilia Beaux

#QOTD
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎨 "I'm a collection of masks with no face behind them."

𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, by by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social
📕 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief

Available now! A 5-star Readers Favorite! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#ArtCrime #Books
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn’t say otherwise.

~ Frida Kahlo

#QOTD
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Great art picks up where nature ends.

~ Marc Chagall

#QOTD

photo by Edoardo Soloni via Unsplash
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

~ Cindy Sherman

#QOTD
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained.

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective vist.ly/4cm26

"Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss."

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt

#MondayBlogs
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

~ Sonia Delaunay

#QOTD
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎨 My book, 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, is out now! A 5-star @ReadersFavorite!

"A wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel as intriguing as it is satisfying..."

📕 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief
by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social

#Books
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Gripping Thrillers by Female Authors | Rosie Walsh via @PenguinRandom vist.ly/4cda4

"I have two small children and a job: if I manage to squeeze any reading time into my day, I need the book in my hand to be absolutely gripping."

#Thrillers #Books
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

~ Mary Cassatt

#QOTD
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Celebrating Women’s Work Throughout Art History | Jennifer Higge via Frieze vist.ly/4c4qr

"Until very recently, the art history most people were taught wasn’t really that different to the one that had been studied in the 19th century."

#Feminism #ArtHistory
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

#QOTD
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR

The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained.

#MondayBlogs
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective vist.ly/4bui4

"Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss."

#MondayBlogs
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎨 NEW How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpe19 vist.ly/4btmy

There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit.

#MondayBlogs #ArtTheft
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

~ Marina Abramović

#QOTD
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM