She is an active member of Romance Writers of America, an association of all writers in America who love to write in Romance Genre and is a part of the Orange county and Los Angeles Chapters. She was awarded the Cataromance Reviewer’s Choice award for her masterpieces in romance. She has won the Booksellers Best Award twice in her writing career. She is a ‘USA Today’ Bestselling author and her books have won awards like the National reader’s Choice Award. Her novels have a common character, the hero is always a bold, heart stopping hero with a great character and high moral standards. She is well versed in writing compelling, steamy and emotional romance novels with their stories set in American West. She has written more than 35 titles with a few of them in series. She really loves Cappuccino and takes a cup almost every night before going to bed.Ĭharlene began writing in 1995 and got her first publication in 1998 named ‘Chance in a Million’. When she is not writing, she enjoys her time with a ‘date’ with her loving husband. She loves to enjoy sunny California beaches and bowling alleys. She is one of the writers who believe in happy endings and she gives a happy ending against all odds that the hero and heroine of the novels face throughout the story. The couple is madly in love with each other and has two children along with two adorable cats.įalling in love and marrying her high school sweetheart has a positive impact in her writing. She later married Don and their 30 years of marriage and great applause of him are enough to understand their relation. And one day the cute boy with long blond hairs finally asked her out. She used to day dream about the guy two lockers down to her in her high school days. The enigma in her writing comes from her high school romance with her husband Don. Reading these compositions, Charlene was inspired to be a writer. Her father used to pen down journals and romantic poetry for his family. Even in her early days she had a vivid experience with storytelling, her father used to tell her great stories almost every evening. The level of details in her writing can only be achieved if and only if you have firsthand personal experience.Ĭharlene Sands was born and brought up in California, United States and is living in California ever since.

There is no doubt that Charlene Sands is one of the best writers in the Genre and her romance and saga of love with her husband has played a great role in it.

Contemporary Romance is a genre which requires personal experience and lots of love in your life to be a prolific writer.

Bodine's Bounty by Charlene Sands