About

Sweet As

Sharyn Swanepoel is a contemporary romance writer who lives in regional Victoria with her husband and their Jack Russell.

She enjoys satisfying her sweet tooth, and spends hours browsing op shops, libraries and book shops. You’ll often find her enjoying live music or the theatre when she’s not reading or exploring the world around her.

Links to purchase her books can be found on the Books page.

 

Want to read more of her stories? 

In 2024 she won the Sheila Malady Short Story Competition (Gippsland Section) with her story Elements of Life.

Her story and other past winners can be found HERE

Here’s another of her short stories, winner of the Queensland Writers Centre Right Left Write competition:

Best Laid Plans

Here’s some flash fiction that was shortlisted in the Australian Writers Centre Furious Fiction competitions:

The Time Machine AND Bucket List

 

Podcasts

Sharyn joined fellow 12 Tropes of Christmas anthology authors Anne Freeman and Heidi Catherine on Jodi Gibson’s Ask The Author podcast. You can listen HERE. Side note, Jodi was also an author in this anthology. 

Want to hear more about projects Sharyn has been involved in?

Listen HERE to Louisa Duval talking on Totally Lit! podcast. 

Listen HERE to the Australian Writers Centre podcast, talking about Lighthouse: An Anthology amongst other stories.

 

 

 

 Professional Reader   100 Book Reviews  

Sharyn is a proud member of Romance Writers Australia, and a regular book reviewer on Netgalley.

You can follow her on Bookbub, Goodreads and Amazon as well as all her social platforms listed on the Contact page.