Featured Interview With Sheridan Jeane
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up just outside Dayton, Ohio in an unusual household. My dad was a nuclear engineer and my mom was an artist. Quite a pair! I thought everyone converted their garage into an art studio and had a potter’s wheel and clay at their disposal! I also never thought it was unusual when I climbed on the roof of our NEW garage at the age of seven and hammered shingles into place. In our family, if you wanted to do something, you simply DID it. I never realized what a special family I had until I met people fettered by limitations they placed on themselves. I was a lucky girl!
I now live outside Pittsburgh. I have two sons plus a step-son and a step-daughter, and they mean the world to me. Pets have always been a part of my family. We’ve had gerbils, guinea pigs, … even tree frogs! But now we have three cats and a dog.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve been fascinated by books since I was very young. Money might have been tight when I was a child, but there was always enough for books. I was surrounded by them. During recess, a teacher would regularly kick me out of my quiet space and force me to go play when all I really wanted to do was curl up with a book! When I studied computer science in college, I also minored in English. I always wanted to be a writer, but I wasn’t able to see a clear path to success. After a couple of bad attempts at writing a novel, I set aside that goal and focused on being a computer programmer. After leaving work to raise my sons, I finally returned to my first love… books! I’ve been writing with the goal of publishing since 2009, and I just released my fourth book!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I’m all over the place with genres. I want a happier ending, but a hopeful ending is good too. I’ll read romance, science fiction, fantasy, YA, mystery, suspense, superheroes… I’ll run the gamut! My favorite authors are all over the place as well. I love Neil Gaiman, Madeline Hunter, Marissa Meyer, Nora Roberts, Patrick Rothfus, Jodi Picoult, Maria V Snyder, Karen Marie Moning, and many, many more!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My newest book is the third in my Secrets and Seduction series. It’s called Once Upon a Spy. I’m very happy with how it turned out, but I have to admit, this book gave me conniptions! (Yes, an old word, but I DO write historical romances, so I get to use old words!) It has a complex plot, and I had a hard time making the ending come together in a satisfying way. I’m really happy with the way it turned out, but it took much longer to write than I anticipated… by about three months!
Once Upon a Spy begins when Robert, Earl of Wentworth, is obliged to assist his injured brother in stealing a book from the Russian Embassy! Everything goes wrong when a beautiful young women seduces him and steals the out from under him before he even has a chance to escape with it. Worse yet, that book is the key to stopping an impending war between England and Russia!
But Antonia, the thief, needs that book as well. Without it, she and her sisters can’t recover their inheritance.
Who will win in this dangerous game of nations, especially when love is at stake?
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Super cool! I would have loved having a potter’s wheel in my basement!
It was awesome!
Hi Sheri, I love these interviews where we learn a little about the person inside the writer. Money does not make a happy childhood. A loving home is the key, and it sounds like you were surrounded by it. I love your books, and will keep buying them as long as you keep writing them.
It really was a great childhood. As you live through it, you don’t appreciate it. It’s only as you look back on your life with some perspective that you really come to recognize what a wonderful life you really had!
I loved your book Once Upon A Spy. It inspired me to start writing my own espionage novel. I’m 5000 words in, and i hope it’s as fun and exciting for others as your novels have been for me.
That’s great news! Good luck with your book!
Great to learn more about you, Sheridan! What a cool childhood. Love your books!
Thanks Amanda! Some time I’ll have to tell the story of my very first car!