Author Spotlight – Sharon Delarose

In an effort to introduce my readers to other authors and their work, every week I run an Author Spotlight, sharing information about an author, their work, and how they go about writing their books.

Investigative mythologist and UFO experiencer Sharon Delarose has been immersed in the otherworldly since she encountered the Grey Aliens as a young child. Years later when she realized that the weird and supernatural events in her life were genuine, she went on a mission to unravel the mysteries, and the journey took her to the most unexpected places from the fairies of Ireland to the Bible to ancient legends from around the world. This research became the book series Earth’s Extraterrestrial History, which is currently at 15 books, including Nordic Aliens and the Fairies of Ireland and Nordic Aliens and the Rapture of the Apocalypse.

Sharon is also an avid nature enthusiast who finds joy in caterpillars, snakes, frogs, lizards, spiders, birdwatching, deer, and wildflowers. Sharon, her husband Bear, and their dog Sienna have been traveling in a 43-foot 5th wheel pulled by a 22-foot Ford F350 dually truck for the past five years, mostly full time. Favorite places include Yellowstone, Utah, and the mountains of New Mexico. Sharon gives a High Five to Nick Russell for sharing his experiences on life in an RV. Nick’s exploits encouraged Sharon and her husband to take the plunge.

A conversation with Sharon:

When did you decide to become an author and why?

I’ve been writing since I was a kid. Back then it was poetry and a detailed diary, and then it morphed into short stories as a teenager, and then to magazine articles and full-length books in my twenties, though the only things I was publishing back then were the magazine articles and puzzles I created.

The first thing I remember writing is a poem when I was nine years old, a poem inspired by the lead into the TV show The Flying Nun. I also remember a diary entry from a few years earlier, just one line on the page: “The bird died tomorrow.” I must have been six or seven years old. Oh, I wish I still had that diary! Best guess is that the page was full for the day the bird died and maybe the day after that and I was trying to figure out how to notate its death. We didn’t have pet birds so it must have been a baby bird that fell from its nest or an injured adult, and I’m still sharing snippets of nature that come my way all these decades later.

How long have you been writing, and what was your first book?

I’ve been writing in one form or another for 60+ years. As for full-length books, the first books were I Quit in 1991 and The Unicorn Papers in 1994. I Quit started as a series of shorts, humorous glimpses into the many odd jobs that I held in those days. I did not publish either book at that time but later rewrote The Unicorn Papers and published it as The Cantor Dimension in 2012.

It wasn’t until I embraced extraterrestrial non-fiction that I came into my own as an author. The first book in that genre was Alien Nightmares: Screen Memories of UFO Alien Abductions, also published in 2012. Since then, I’ve published 15 others in the ancient alien/ancient astronaut theory category, all fully researched and sourced with bibliographies.

What genres do you write in?

Ancient astronaut theory, primarily. I approach it from a different perspective. Rather than spotlighting a physical monument such as a pyramid and trying to work backward on who built it and why, I focus on the stories of our ancestors and on several holy books including the Bible, the Book of Enoch, the Hindu Mahabharata and others, in addition to current UFO and extraterrestrial events. I see patterns, that’s my superpower, and I’m able to merge worldwide ancient narratives with current events to show that there is no disconnect between what our ancestors told us, what’s going on in our skies today, and what’s written in the holy books.

How many books do you have out?

In the non-fiction extraterrestrial category, 16 books. The longest is Nordic Aliens and the Fairies of Ireland at 512 pages in paperback with a 25-page bibliography of sources. The second longest is Nordic Aliens and the Rapture of the Apocalypse at 484 pages in paperback including a 19-page bibliography. If you add books outside of this genre, 33 books total.

My favorite genre to write in after extraterrestrials is nature. I’ve got three full-color coffee table nature books out, and three spinoff kids’ books in the nature category. The coffee table books would be categorized as photoblogs as each photograph includes a blog-type post regarding my encounter with the entity. I personally took all of the photographs. The coffee table books are The Wizard of Awe, Over the Hummingbird’s Rainbow, and King of the Forest.

Are you trade published, independent, or a combo?

I’m an independent author. That allows me to follow where the research leads rather than trying to fit into some pre-fab genre. Non-fiction shouldn’t be swayed that way. Sometimes I agree with the traditional assumptions, and sometimes I show a completely different view of events such as the biblical Nephilim taking their name and ancestry from the Greek goddess Nephele. Several clans of biblical giants were named for an ancestor such as the Anakim being descendants of Anak, and the Amalekites being descendants of Amalek, so why would the Nephilim be treated any differently? I am also the first, or one of the earliest to purport that the true fairies of Ireland were Nordic aliens who towered over humans akin to those flying the skies today. At the time I first described them in September 2013 in the book, Ancient Aliens and the Lost Islands, others in my genre were still calling them “invisible little people.”

What is your writing style? Panster or plotter or?

Definitely a plotter. In the non-fiction category I’ll create the table of contents first with each chapter labeled by its content, not as a generic “Chapter 1, 2” etc. For example, in the latest book, The Rapture, chapters include “Alien Invasion,” “Nephilim as a Family Name,” and “New Jerusalem – the Biblical Mothership.” (“Alien Invasion” refers to how our world leaders will interpret the Second Coming of Jesus as prophesied in the Bible and technically it is when you factor in the army of angels who accompany him, but for most folks on Earth, this will be a blessing.)

Do you write more than one book at a time?

Sometimes. Nordic Aliens and the Fairies of Ireland was intended to be one book but it kept growing and growing until I divided it into three, and then six, and in the end what I thought would be one book became nine, each with a different title and focus. These became books 3-11 in the ancient alien series, Earth’s Extraterrestrial History. I published them simultaneously in 2019, all nine books. Most authors would advise you to publish them a few months apart, but as they all refer to one another, they needed to come out together.

How much research is involved in your writing?

Extensive research. My personal research library includes thousands of books. Fairies of Ireland has a 25-page bibliography of sources at the end but the inline quotes are also sourced with the quote itself. My research library includes 19 different bibles, 373 books and articles on ancient Ireland-Britain-Scotland-Wales, 261 books and articles on the ancient Americas, plus numerous books from biblical scholars, various translations of the Book of Enoch, 89 books and publications from the Smithsonian Institution. You get the idea. I take this very seriously.

Where do you write? Do you have a home office, write in a coffee shop, or what?

I have a home office with a full-size desk, two computers, a full-size computer monitor, a regular keyboard, a printer stand and printer, and several lamps to see by in addition to an overhead light, along with several gadgets for recording podcasts and being featured in video interviews.

Do you use any programs like ProWriting Aid, Grammarly, or ?

No. Quoting from ancient texts would send some of those programs into outer space. I do use spellcheck and two versions of a grammar checker, keeping in mind that I also have to stay true to the quotes. There is one Bible of which I must revise the quotes to be readable as it’s written in a version of English that is nearly unreadable, but I make it clear that those passages have been revised for spelling. I have Middle English dictionaries to assist with this in addition to comparing it to newer bibles. For example: coueitouse = covetous, hoolsum = wholesome, shulen = should, seruyce = service. When you first glance at that Bible, it looks like a foreign language. Bibles vary widely from one another in their wording and when it comes to literal history as opposed to a teaching parable, it matters.

How do you promote your books?

Video interviews, radio interviews, blog interviews, podcasts, Amazon ads, Facebook posts, and word of mouth. Recently I loaned a copy of The Rapture to a neighbor and she was stunned. She said that she had her Bible open the whole time and compared my quotes to it and was astounded that the Bible actually says what I purport. She was so amazed that she’s spreading the word locally. I’ve also been on George Noory’s Coast to Coast radio show and others.

What are your writing goals, long and short term?

I have no end of topics still to cover. If I lived 20 more years, I wouldn’t run out of topics just in the extraterrestrial category. And nature, of course, is limitless. My long-term goal is to raise awareness that not only are the ancient stories true such as the Bible, the Book of Enoch, the Mahabharata, the fairy legends of Ireland, the Native American legends of the supernatural, and so forth, but that this is all one story as told from different perspectives. I’m also focused on preparing people for the Second Coming, an event that will surely take the world by surprise. There is no disconnect between the ancient texts and current events and the truth truly is beautiful.

Any advice to new authors or someone who wants to become an author?

Pick one genre and stick to it. Write several books in that genre. If you write a bunch of one-off books, unrelated to each other, you will not likely gain a following. That said, some of us need to write several one-offs before we find our niche. I am in that category. It took me awhile.

Another is to offer your books in several formats. I offer paperback, eBook, and audiobook, and most folks buy my books in paperback. You’d be surprised at the sales you might miss in not offering a variety.

Links to Sharon’s websites:
https://www.sharondelarose.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SharonDelarose

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Thought For The Day – The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson