coffee-fueled & always writing
Slow burns, second chances, and a little poetry.
AUTHOR · POET
"I read you like a novel I couldn't put down. Enchanted by every word, I got lost in your story." - from Unbroken PiecesCOMING SOON
Meet Me in the Market
A Contemporary Romance
Cheyenne Roberts has a system: grocery delivery, a full Netflix queue, and a promise to herself that she doesn't need anything she doesn't already have. Then her best friend hijacks her phone, builds her a dating profile, and Chy finds herself asking a stranger his favourite ice cream flavour. He says vanilla. She almost swipes left.
Liam is a chef about to open a restaurant on Ottawa's Sparks Street, warm, disarming, and far too interested in a woman who hasn't picked up a paintbrush in nine years. They agree to be friends. It's easier that way. He doesn't want kids. She comes with two. But between the art he commissions before he's seen a single piece and the city he keeps showing her one street at a time, Chy starts wanting things she stopped letting herself want.
Meet Me in the Market is a slow burn love story about the life you put on hold, and the person who makes you want to start again, set against the seasons of Ottawa's Byward Market.
LATEST RELEASE
Return
Return is a luminous collection of poems about coming home to yourself, to your truth, your softness, and your strength. In her signature voice, introspective, lyrical, and quietly powerful, Sharla Fanous explores what it means to carry the lessons of stillness, growth, and clarity into the next season of life. For anyone navigating change, healing, or self-discovery, Return offers companionship and encouragement. Each poem is an invitation to pause, reflect, and find beauty in the unfolding: a reminder that coming home to yourself is not a single moment, but a lifelong practice of grace, courage, and return.THE LIBRARY
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“To the degree you allow yourself to love, to the same degree you risk feeling pain. But even if you love and lose, believe it is worth it to try again.”
Sharla Fanous - “Try Again” Unbroken Pieces
HELLO, I’M SHARLA
Believer in banter, coffee refills, and the power of a second chance.
FROM THE POEMS
I write poetry and sweet, slow burn romances, the kind where the tension lives in the small things: a shared bench, a name said softly, and the pause that hangs between two people learning to stay.
When I’m not writing, you’ll find me having a solo dance party in my kitchen while I bake cookies, holding a pint of my favourite ice cream, and rewatching my favourite romcom for the one hundredth time.