Whew, I'm running late with this. I just got back from Target and found out one of my stories finaled in the Enchanted Words contest -- and, even more exciting, BOTH of my critique partners also finaled! So, as you can imagine, I've hardly been off the phone since I got back. So with many apologies for posting this after 10 p.m., please welcome SHARON SALA!!
And, like Tuesday's visiting author, Jayne Ann Krentz, Sharon also writes under another pen name: Dinah McCall.
Here's a link to Sharon's website:http://www.sharonsalabooks.com/
Sharon Sala is a long-time member of RWA, as well as a member of OKRWA. She has 80 plus books in print, written as Sharon Sala and Dinah McCall. First published in 1991, she’s a seven-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, four-time Career Achievement winner from RT Magazine, National Reader’s Choice Award, and Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence winners five times each. Her books are New York Times , USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, WaldenBooks mass market best-sellers. Writing changed her life, her world, and her fate.
(This is from the Harper Collins website)
Sharon Sala
With over fifty books in print, award-winning author Sharon Sala, who also writes as Dinah McCall, still has to remind herself from time to time that this isn't a dream.
She learned to read at the age of four and has had her nose in a book ever since. Her introduction into romance came at an early age through the stories of Zane Gray, Grace Livingston Hill and Emily Loring. Her pride in contributing to the genre is echoed by the letters of her fans.
She's a four-time RITA finalist, Winner of the Janet Dailey Award, three-time Career Achievement winner from Romantic Times magazine, four-time winner of the National Reader's Choice Award and five-time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer's Award of Excellence, as well as numerous other industry awards.
Her books are regularly on bestseller lists, such as the New York Times extended list, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Waldenbooks mass market, and many others.
She claims that, for her, learning to read was a matter of evolution, but learning to write and then being published was a revolution. It changed her life, her world and her fate.
This is from the eharlequin site:
Sharon Sala realized that she was meant to be an author when she found herself loving to read, hating her job, and constantly daydreaming. Prompted by the deaths of her father and sister, which happened within two and a half months of each other, Sharon made a vow to "not let another day pass without pursuing my dreams."
In 1989 she finished a manuscript and sent it to a publisher. Not only was it the first manuscript Sharon had ever sent, but the very first publisher she sent it to bought it!
Since her first Silhouette book, Annie and the Outlaw, in 1994, Sharon has published seven books for Silhouette Intimate Moments. She also wrote For Her Eyes Only, which was published as a part of Silhouette's 36 Hours miniseries in October 1997.
More recently, Sharon made the jump to MIRA Books with Sweet Baby and Reunion. Sharon has been a four-time RITA® Award finalist. She has been given many awards, including the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine, and the National Readers’ Choice Award, twice.
Born and raised in Prague, Oklahoma, Sharon still lives there with her two children.
She describes her writing style as "instinctive—I rarely have to sit down and think of a plot or character for a new book. They are always floating around inside my head, waiting to come to life."
Hi everyone - Sharon will be here later this a.m. -- she stopped in last night for awhile, as you can see. In the meantime, I hope some of you will post some questions or comments for her, too! It's a gloomy day in Cincinnati -- I need something to wake me up. How about you all? Here's a homegrown Cincinnati boy:
Oh Becke, you don't have to bribe us to talk to Sharon. 
And I didn't know he was from your home town. He just spent a great deal of time in my home town filming Up and Away.
Now down to business:
Hi Sharon, I'm sorry to say I haven't read you (yet), but your novels look amazing and I think there will be a new author on my faves list very soon. I've looked over the books and just ordered The Healer. And I just sent you a friend request on FB. So I know we'll be chatting very soon.
Good luck with your upcoming new series, I know I'll be on the pre-order list for those.
I started out reading mainstream romance and mystery, but now my new love is paranormal.
I find that in paranormal romance and mysteries a middle-aged woman like myself finds more in common with an immortal or nearly so than with a heroine who's in her 20's. Do you find your fan base more in my age category or is it pretty much spread out.
Thanks for taking the time out to talk to us.
