Sheryl Steinberg

Sheryl Steinberg

About

When I was a girl, I thought I would become an architect. An interior designer. A sports reporter. A physio-therapist. Even a coroner (during theQuincy TV show era). 

Never in a million years, did I expect to end up working in computers (though, looking back, she did have a thing for The Twilight Zone). 

After graduating university with a journalism degree, I got a job as an advertising copywriter—only to lose it a couple of years later due to the economic recession of the early 1990s. 

Determined to keep writing, I picked up random writing jobs (translation: writing about rakes and power tools for Canadian Tire store flyers and catalogs), until I applied for a full-time posting as a technology publicist/writer. It didn’t matter that I knew nothing about technology. I could learn (I needed the money). And learn I did, working on agency accounts over the years, like Dell, Lexmark, NEC and AT&T. 

After getting married and having two amazing children, I established her own boutique agency, working on other accounts like Compaq, Microsoft, Palm and Symantec. 

I also returned to my journalistic roots and began writing about lifestyle issues, architecture and design for magazines and newspapers, including ChatelaineStyle at HomeCanadian House & Home and The Globe and Mail

Inspired to marry my two worlds in 2004, I pitched one of her magazine editors on a feature article that would educate mainstream women on technology (complete with a fun, sexy Cosmo-like quiz). 

Rejected and dismayed, I turned the article concept into a novel, now known as Opportunity Rings, to empower women to do anything, even if that means installing a wireless network. 

I still write about women and technology, architecture and design from my home office – while juggling meal preparation, helping my kids with homework and getting them to/from school, hockey, baseball, swimming and karate – with my smartphone and laptop permanently attached to my hip. 


 

The Seekers: The Stuff of Stars (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 2)

The Seekers: The Stuff of Stars (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 2)

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<p>This second book in <em>The Seekers</em> dystopian series continues the story started in the critically-acclaimed <em>The Children of Darkness</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2015 - Best Book in the Category of SCIENCE FICTION</strong>, and winner of the <strong>Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the second book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><em style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6em;">“But what are we without dreams?”</em></h2><p>Against all odds, Orah and Nathaniel have found the keep and revealed the truth about the darkness, initiating what they hoped would be a new age of enlightenment. But the people were more set in their ways than anticipated, and a faction of vicars whispered in their ears, urging a return to traditional ways.</p><p>Desperate to keep their movement alive, Orah and Nathaniel cross the ocean to seek the living descendants of the keepmasters’ kin. Those they find on the distant shore are both more and less advanced than expected.</p><p>The seekers become caught between the two sides, and face the challenge of bringing them together to make a better world. The prize: a chance to bring home miracles and a more promising future for their people. But if they fail this time, they risk not a stoning but losing themselves in the twilight of a never-ending dream.</p><p><strong>Be sure to start with the first book in this series, the multiple award-winning <em>The Children of Darkness</em>. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>

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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;"></span><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;"></span><div><div>&quot;A perfect read for a day at the beach!&quot;</div><div>- Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping </div></div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">&quot;If you laughed and cried along with Bridget Jones and feel like Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda are your best buds, you'll love this laugh-'til-you-snort story of a wireless marketing maven who's more high gloss than high tech.&quot;</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"></span></span><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">- Sweetspot.ca</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">&quot;...funny, sweet and smart, combining girly-wit with techy-twit. I give this book two text messaging thumbs up.&quot;<br /></span></font><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> - Lauren McPhillips, Style at Home</span></font></div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">&quot;St</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">einberg's writing is simply hilarious, as we learn about what happens when high tech and high heels collide. In many cases, you're privy to Swift's thoughts (um, do all women think about food and sex so much?) or following her (mis)adventures as she wrestles with finicky gadgets and handsome suitors -- figuratively and literally.&quot;</span></font></div></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">- Marc Saltzman, MSN Sync</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div>