Well, hello there! I'm Sharon.

I’m a writer, humorist, and recovering nonprofit director who traded creating strategic plans for writing stories. My goal is to make you laugh by writing big-hearted novels about sassy, complicated women that somehow landed themselves in a big pile of multicolored shit.

Having just finished my first novel, I’m preparing to seek representation—which sounds utterly terrifying. I have participated in writing workshops and conferences, including Erma Bombeck, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, Interlochen, Writers Digest, and Yale Writers Workshop. I’m a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association and participate in the Best Little Critique Group in the US.

I live with a poorly behaved wheaten terrier named Hercules Mulligan—because Hamilton—as well as a mostly well-behaved husband, in a house that answers the question “why is stucco so rare in Michigan?” I have an unexplainable fondness for em dashes, oxford commas, dark chocolate, and righteous indignation. I’m a devoted fan of my two adult children, red lipstick, photography, travel, Broadway, Maria Semple novels, and my badass feminist friends.

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Writing

— Artistic Vision —

I play with words.

I write stories with humor and heart that explore the complicated friendships between modern women. I’m drawn to sassy, funny, richly flawed characters that sometimes say the wrong thing, make terrible decisions, and get into awkward situations. But can they get themselves out? Who’s to tell?

Me. I’ll tell.

We are living in difficult times. If I can make you smile, perhaps even laugh out loud, I’ve done my job.

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— In the Works —

I am preparing to seek representation for my first novel, When Ali Met Tess.

Not all storybook friendships have a happy ending.

Artistic, indecisive Ali, a West Michigan reporter, and bold, demanding Tess, a rising star in Chicago’s advertising industry, have supported, loved, and mocked each other for a dozen years when Ali discovers her husband canoodling with another woman. Ali leans on Tess through it all— her new role as a single mom, her reduced finances, and the bewildering shame of having a cheating husband—and, in her distress, Ali misses that Tess is struggling with her own battles. Eventually, with Tess’s help, Ali rights her world.

Until Ali accidentally betrays Tess. Then everything changes.

When Ali Met Tess is a witty, heartwarming novel with richly flawed characters that explores the beauty, depth, and risks of women’s friendships.

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