“My thoughts and emotions were all over the place about our revisit to this changed place. We hated it just a few months ago. Now I wasn’t sure how I felt about being there, although the hormigas felt like a harbinger of doom. I now enjoyed the beauty there, and I appreciated the changes from the spring, but my gut still screamed that something was off. I had some bad feelings about this supposed piece of paradise, but before I began to analyze them, I questioned what was taking Mac and Isabelle so long.”
– From Under the Umbrella of Paradise
J. Sharland Day is a writer of destination suspense, thrillers, travel, romance, erotica, paranormal, and poetry, along with being an award-winning photographer, jeweler, and painter. Born in Central Utah and reared in the Mormon faith, she left Mormonism behind after reading Gary Jenning’s book Aztec, having had the self-realization that “religions could be hypocritical and self-serving”.
An adventure-seeking traveler who writes and paints about her adventures, she’s lived all around Mexico, the United States, and now resides part-time in Spain. Where she has lived, she has written and often been published, along with painting and having her artwork shown.
J. Sharland has written for newspapers in Iowa and Wyoming, and while in Wyoming, she wrote articles, created artwork, and developed layouts for Lovell, Wyoming’s art festival. She was also the State Conservation Chairwoman for the Wyoming Federation of Women’s Clubs (WFWC). Her artwork has been shown and exhibited at art festivals in Wyoming, Texas, Iowa, Utah, and Mexico’s Mayan Riviera region.
Loss Of Innocence by J. Sharland Day
Receiving awards began early for J. Sharland when she was honored by her 4th-grade teacher with a Little Golden Book for her stories. Her essays have since won WFWC and Iowa Central Community College (ICCC) awards. Her artwork has garnered award ribbons for paintings exhibited at art festivals and competitions in Escalante, Utah; Fort Dodge, Iowa; and Lovell, Wyoming.
After a divorce, she returned to school as a later-life student and got a degree in Fashion Merchandising from ICCC, where she was also the Secretary to the Director of Nursing Education. During her time as a returning student, she was nominated for the 'Who's Who in American Colleges', one of the top students out of 2,300 colleges. She also received honor society awards that same year.
Alongside her creative work, to make ends meet and to help raise her three children, J. Sharland worked in advertising; drove hay trucks; worked for a printing company; worked at a sugar factory; was a painter for a construction company; and was a clerk at the DMV for four years. She also owned and operated her own art gallery and was a manager and salesperson for high-end clothing stores.
J. Sharland’s debut is a destination suspense novel, which takes place in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula during the 2000s. She is now working on a destination horror/thriller, The RV Park. Her paranormal psychological suspense novel, Shadows of the Ripples, is another book of hers that she plans to publish.
She lives part-time in Águilas, Spain, and in Oakridge, Oregon, with her husband Jim.
Contact J Sharland Day for inquiries about her novels and artwork.