About Sally Fairchild

In her twenties, Sally married and wrote articles for a Seattle community newspaper, The Capitol Hill Times, about college life, baking her first apple pie, and the joy of owning cats. By her thirties, she had three children and had left the beaches of Kailua, Hawaii for the mountains of Denver, Colorado and part-ownership of a German delicatessen.

As the wife of a frequently transferred executive, moving companies were like family by the time she arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada. Months later, Sally and her family resettled in Scottsdale, Arizona where she sold luxury condominiums for a leading Arizona developer. But it wasn’t until she arrived on Long Island’s North Shore and met author Barbara Bretton that Sally decided to pursue writing as a career. At least, she reasoned, typewriters were portable.

Soon Sally found herself in Miami where she immediately founded a Romance Writers of America chapter known as Florida Romance Writers, Inc. and served as president for the first several years. During this time, Sally wrote and sold two novels, BORN TO THE GAME and WHITE LIES (Ballantine Books.)

While continuing to write, Sally founded Booktalk (www.booktalk.com), a popular Internet site with information about the world of publishing including home pages of twenty well-known authors. Booktalk averages 40,000 monthly visitors. Sally also assists many authors with their own book promotions —both on the Internet and through direct mail presentations

As the wife of former cruise line executive for two major cruise lines , Sally brings her own personal knowledge and experiences to the Mira Books’ novel, PORTS OF CALL. “My favorite vacation is a cruise,” says Sally. “A cruise offers many ports of call and shore excursions but you only need to unpack once!!”

Sally is active in Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America and is frequently a seminar speaker.