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  • The Duke Don’t Dance

    Compressed between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom were those who became known to some by the ill-chosen name of the Silent Generation. They were those born too late to share in the triumph of the great victory, too early to know only the privilege of the American empire and in too few numbers to assure themselves a proper identity and enduring legacy.LEARN MORE

    Jacob's Cellar

    Jacob’s Cellar is a dark foreboding cavern below a Missouri farmhouse on the eve of the Civil War. It is used for all manner of storage, a community gathering spot, hiding place for objects and refugees, retreat for lovers, den of betrayal and ultimately the source of legends that ensures the salvation of protagonists through the great conflict... LEARN MORE

    Time is the Oven

    Time is the Oven is a kind of anti-Western, following the adventures of a young man (a boy in Jacob's Cellar) beginning in post-Civil War Missouri. There he meets the legendary Jesse James and is singularly unimpressed, but comes to see his older brother as a sort of mentor. Pursuing a difficult romantic relationship with a “sporting lady”... LEARN MORE

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Welcome to Words About Time

On this site you will find descriptions of the novels of Richard Sharp, excerpts and links of his works, links for paperback and e-book purchases, previews of coming works and means to comment or exchange views with the author.

Why “Words About Time?” Sharp’s preoccupation as a novelist, inspired in part by the work of Isabel Allende, is in tracing his protagonists’ attitudes and emotions as they evolve with the changing culture of their times – or, despite the advance of life, capturing their stubborn adherence to spirits that served them well at critical junctures in their personal histories. His protagonists are resilient in their love of life and their personal relationships. Love may not be time’s fool, as the… READ MORE

Contemporary Novels

  • The Duke Don’t Dance

    The Duke Don’t Dance Compressed between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom were those who became known to some by the ill-chosen name of the Silent Generation. They were those born too late to share in the triumph of the great victory, too early to know only the privilege of the American empire and in too few numbers to assure themselves a proper identity and enduring legacy. Despite those attributes, they invented rock and roll, filled the streets in the struggle for racial equality, bled in the heated precipitates of the cold war and opened the doors to the sexual revolution and feminism...LEARN MORE

  • Crystal Ships

    Scheduled release Fall 2013. "Life is not about the destination or the journey, it is about the vessel that carries you through it." Friends traverse the turbulent and violent sixties and seventies, surviving the loss of heroes, disillusionment with false prophets and the bankruptcy of their own expectations. It is a tale of adaptation and triumph over the dark side of the social environment and one's own nature, cloaked in a tragic mystery that fundamentally alters the course of the protagonists' lives.

    • Historical Novels

  • Jacob’s Cellar

    Jacob's Cellar is a dark foreboding cavern below a Missouri farmhouse on the eve of the Civil War. It is used for all manner of storage, a clan gathering spot, hiding place for objects and refugees, retreat for lovers, den of betrayal and ultimately the source of legends that ensures the salvation of protagonists through the great conflict. The saga begins with a retelling of the long-forgotten "War of the Regulation," a rural North Carolina precursor to the Revolutionary War culminating in 1771, in which farmers...READ MORE

  • Time is the Oven

    Time is the Oven is a kind of anti-Western, following the adventures of a young man (a boy in Jacob's Cellar) beginning in post-Civil War Missouri. There he meets the legendary Jesse James and is singularly unimpressed, but comes to see his older brother as a sort of mentor. Pursuing a difficult romantic relationship with a “sporting lady” aspiring to become an actress, he meets only disappointment, marries a respectable woman and seeks unsuccessfully to return to the rural life of his youth. Following a... READ MORE

  • “A frame narrative of impressive scope and quality” “irreverence on par with Joseph Heller” “observations reminiscent of Henry James.”
    (KIRKUS Star for works of remarkable merit)

    -KIRKUS Reviews


    “Saying it is a brilliant self-published novel cheapens the praise. This is simply a great book”

    -Chicago Center for Literature and Photography


    The Duke Don’t Dance is beautifully written “ (ForeWord Firsts Winter 2012 Finalist)

    -ForeWord Reviews