S.L. Menear is a retired airline pilot. US Airways hired Sharon in 1980 as their first woman 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 Jettine Jorgensen Mysteries will continue, and her Samantha Starr thriller series has five books with a sixth in the works.
Sharon's leisure activities included scuba diving, powered paragliding, snow skiing, surfing, horseback riding, aerobatic flying, sailing, and driving sports cars and motorcycles.
Her beloved Timber-shepherds, Pratt and Whitney, were her faithful companions for almost fourteen years, and they produced eight darling puppies. When she lived in Texas, Sharon enjoyed riding her beautiful black and white paint stallion, Chief, who kept her mother's mares happy, fathering several adorable foals.
Retired now, Sharon lives and writes on an island in South Florida. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Florida Writers Association.
