People have asked me why I don’t write about my adventures raising six sons. I have to admit that I prefer to write their stories as fiction because no one would believe the stuff they put me through if I tell it as fact. In fiction I can clean my boys up a little when I like them and make them the heroes of my stories and if they’ve pissed me off, I can make them the villains. It’s been a running joke around our house that mom will put you in her book and kill you off on page fifty, but some know they’re the smelly corpse discovered in the ditch at the very beginning of the story. Heck, it’s not even a threat anymore my grandkids are begging to be put in my books and even telling me how I can kill them off. I mean really, where’s the threat in that? We put the fun in dysfunctional, what can I say? I have long conversations with my children and grandchildren about blowing things up and how to get rid of bodies. The holidays are never boring around our house.

My mini bio: only child, married to my romantic hero for over 30 years, raised six sons, have 22 grandchildren, published 11 books. Oh, and I’m the chairperson for the Pamlico Writers’ Group because no one else wanted it. A member of RWA (Romance Writers of America) and VP of Communications with Heart of Carolina chapter. A member of Kiss of Death RWA chapter and AlLi (Alliance of Independent Authors). That’s me in the nut shells.

S L Hollister aka Sherri Lupton Hollister is the author of two contemporary romantic suspense series The Leeward Files and The Harrell Family Chronicles, and she has just started a third series in the historical, cozy mystery genre called the Applegate Mystery series.

As the mother of six grown sons, with a collection of 25 grandchildren and her own romantic hero of over thirty years Sherri has plenty of characters to choose from when creating her fictional worlds. Everyone knows they can end up in her novels sometimes as the hero, others as the villain and when you piss her off, you're the smelly corpse at the front of the book.

Sherri has served as the chairperson for the Pamlico Writers Group the oldest writers' group in eastern North Carolina for a dozen years, her time as the VP of Communications for the Heart of Carolina Romance Writers is coming to an end, but her favorite job has been as host of a monthly writers' challenge called book in a week. A member of The New Romance Café online writers group, Sherri has published several short stories and novellas with TNRC.