Over a decade ago, when her daughter Kate, died tragically Sharpe faced down the most difficult challenge of her life. She was determined not to just merely survive, but to live; to honor the life of her beloved daughter, her twins, her husband and the rest of the rich life she had created before the tragedy. Blessed with an inherently positive outlook these trying times were strengthened by influences from the late Norman Vincent Peale to the children's book character, Wilbur the pig. For Sharpe ministers of spirit and guidance took the form of angels. Sharpe's openness to change led her to write her first novel, The Angel's Daughter. The story that takes place in the fictitious town of Mystic Bay, California, encompasses all Sharpe's attitudes about goodness, healing and moving on. Her second novel To Catch an Angel is written in memory of her late husband Steve.

Midwest Review- Town of Angels
Those who believe in the presence and influence of angels in everyday life will find the third book in the Mystic Bay series, Town of Angels, an uplifting study in positivity. It blends a mystery with the story of an angel who takes on a bully in a small town where angels live as humans.

The town is replete with psychics and ordinary people. All live a bucolic life until bully Klaus Waxman comes to town and tries to change its psyche.

It's difficult to ignore his negativity and typecasting; especially when he opens a store that mocks the angel sightings the town knows to be true.

Midwest Reviews-Special Needs Children: The Angels On My Shoulder is a memoir about Jody Sharpe's twenty-five years teaching special needs kids. It provides an unexpected focus on not just special needs circumstances, but the bullying which evolved from them, by other children.

Sharpe's spiritual reflections on God and angels is a constant referral in this book, which speaks of 'angel teachers', the 'hearts of angels' which reside in many of these children, and their fleeting and long-term influences as they move through her life and classroom.

Sharpe's ability to see the good in circumstances and people identifies the 'special' in 'special needs' as she delineates her journey through the education system and those teaching and social encounters which changed her perspective and life.

Teachers (especially those working with special needs kids) will find this spiritual and social reflection easily accessible. It's presented in vignettes which offer small, digestible bites of insight into a world where angels and kindness are present in more than one form.

Education and spirituality collections alike will find Special Needs Children details a unique viewpoint and is an uplifting read.

Midwest Reviews-When the Angel Sent Butterflies provides read-aloud parents with an uplifting primer about little Kate, who is frightened when a bee buzzes around her.

Jones reminds his sister that their mother says angels watch over them daily. Angel Ken has a different approach: he sends butterflies to delight the kids and take away their fear of nature and the outdoors.
Dog Billie sees angels all the time. She knows that Angel Ken's purpose is not just to distract with lovely butterflies, but to teach the kids that bees and butterflies alike are their friends, and a positive part of the world around them.

Illustrator Susan Clare Anderson's drawings are simple and inviting. They could have been drawn by a child, but provide colorful embellishments that will interest a young age range.

The story concludes on an upbeat note with an invitation to have kids draw a butterfly and a bee, providing an activity to reinforce the spiritual and nature message of a read-aloud that religious parents will find inviting.

Visit her website at http://www.jodysharpe.com. Jody has a blog on her website called Tuesdays With The Angels!