Sharon McPherson is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 writer

Writer

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 and book publisher. She writes works of non-fiction

Non-fiction

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 and fiction

Fiction

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 under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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, Cambella McMahon.

She was born in Dundee

Dundee

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, Scotland, where she attended Dundee College

Dundee College

Dundee College is a further education and higher education college in the city of Dundee, Scotland and was established in 1985 by the merger of Dundee College of Commerce and Kingsway Technical College....

, gaining a diploma in Publication Production, Editing and Design. Later, she studied at the University of Dundee

University of Dundee

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 and graduated with a degree in English. She moved to Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 in 2007, in order to research her first novel, a romantic satire (yet unpublished). She lived for a year in the city before moving back to her hometown in 2008.

Her own publishing

Publishing

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 company, Pumpkin Press, was founded in 2006, initially to market her own titles. The company now sells books and postcard

Postcard

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s about Dundee.

Her first book, A Skirt Around Dundee, A Walker's Guide To The City, was published in 2006, and is a city guide set out in a series of walks around the town. Her second book, Dew On The Law, And Other Strange Stories About A Scottish City, (2008) is a collection of historical fiction

Historical fiction

Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

 about Dundee.

She illustrated her first two books with her own drawings and photographs.

Works