Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, attended New York University and graduated with a B.A. in 1963. Married in 1963, had three sons, divorced in 1976, raised the sons, Andy, Brian and Curtis, alone in New Jersey.  Worked for AT&T as a shareowner correspondent, then as an all-around assistant in a construction company, then sold bar steel for an import firm.  Left that job as assistant sales manager. I've been writing full time since 1984.

I've had forty novels in print in four different sub-genres, with another fifteen or so novels sold online.

I now live in Milton, Florida, and I won the 2001 Phoenix award at that year's Deep South Con. I never knew that my way of writing was called channeling, but I've learned that it's nothing else. Certain stories want to be told, there's no other way of putting it, and no other way to explain why the story won't let you rest until you have it all down on paper or in your computer.

For instance, my first series in print, known variously as the Warrior series or the Terrilian series, just started out as an effort to draw a real helpless character, not just a paper cutout. I've always "known" certain things about psionics and the ability gained there from, so the books ended up chock full of things that I knew worked.

But that series wanted more from me than what I thought it did. The fourth book refused to come clear until I got rid of my own ideas and just listened to what the book wanted to say. That message turned out to be a "how-to" for "helpless" females, how to change your way of thinking and thereby change your life. If you haven't yet learned that other people see you the way you see yourself, don't just take my word for it. Get in touch with me and I'll show you how you can prove the matter to yourself.

And the series turned out to be even more than I expected it to be. At a convention some years ago, a woman came up after a panel to thank me for writing that series. It turned out she was a Southern Baptist minister and rape counselor, and she had the women she worked with read the series. The first books were very hard for them to read, but by the end of the series they knew why she'd had them read the books. They learned that getting raped to begin with wasn't their fault, and that they could make sure it never happened again by changing the way they looked at the world.

Sharon teaches writers how to channel their writing.