S.L. Menear

S. L. Menear is a retired airline pilot. US Airways hired Sharon in 1980 as their first female pilot, bypassing the flight engineer position. The men in her new-hire class gave her the nickname, Bombshell. She flew Boeing 727s and 737s, DC-9s, and BAC 1-11 airliners and was promoted to captain in her seventh year.

Before her pilot career, Sharon worked as a water-sports model and then traveled the world as a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways.

Sharon also enjoyed flying antique airplanes, experimental aircraft, and Third World fighter airplanes. Her leisure activities included scuba diving, powered paragliding, snow skiing, surfing, horseback riding, aerobatic flying, sailing, and driving fast cars and motorcycles.

Her beloved timber-shepherds, Pratt & Whitney, were her faithful companions for almost fourteen years, and she enjoyed riding her beautiful black and white paint stallion, Chief, who kept her mother’s mares happy, fathering several adorable foals.

Sharon has flown many of the airplanes featured in her debut novel, Flight to Redemption (Deadstick Dawn), winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award, Flight to Destiny (Poseidon's Sword), Triple Threat (Blaze), Stranded, and Vanished, the first five books in her Samantha Starr Series. A 6th book is coming soon.

Sharon is also writing the suspenseful Jettine Jorgensen Mysteries, and the first book is Dead Silent. Book 2 is Dropped Dead, and Book 3 is Dead Ends, coming in 2022.

She co-wrote cozy mystery Sniffers Agency-The Nose Knows and Life, Love, & Laughter: 50 Short Stories, a humorous anthology, with her mother, D.M. (Dorothy) Littlefield. They also co-wrote a middle-grade children’s adventure novel, Journey into the Land of the Wingless Giants and a book for young Children, Enchanted.