About Shayla!

By day, multi-published Shayla Kersten is a mild-mannered accountant. By night, she’s a writer of sexy romances. Torn between genres, Shayla writes erotic stories about hot heroes and their sexy women, as well as hot men and their passionate heroes.

A native of Arkansas, Shayla spent four years in the Army as a missile specialist, stationed in Germany and Oklahoma. After her enlistment was up, she spent eleven years in New York City taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Even her love of theatre and the nightlife of the big city couldn’t cure terminal homesickness for the Natural State. In 1995, she returned to her roots in Arkansas. 

Challenged in 2005 by her childhood friends, Delilah Devlin and Myla Jackson, Shayla turned from her fanfiction drabbles to original fiction and submitted her first erotic novel to Ellora’s Cave. Then she joined Romance Writers of America. As a long distance member of San Antonio Romance Authors, she discovered support and encouragement from other authors. 

When a fellow Arkansas author suggested starting a chapter closer to home, Shayla jumped on the opportunity. A founding and charter member of Diamond State Romance Authors, Shayla has served as President and Treasurer.

Now published and wanting to “pay it forward”, Shayla teaches self-editing classes online at Rose's Colored Glasses as well as workshops to her local RWA chapter.

Shayla divides her time between her mother, her spoiled rotten cats and dogs, her evil day job and her obsession—writing.