Shelby Saville resides in a suburb west of Chicago.  Despite her city living, she’s a small-town girl at heart. She grew up in a town of 2000 people where she spent her teenage years at her typewriter late into the night.  Her stories brought her to a world beyond the 1.6 square mile radius of her town. 

Her first writing job was for the Lacon Home Journal, where she covered the news of the town. She particularly loved writing obituaries, taking great care to convey the life of someone’s friend … sibling … lover…. But still the city was calling. 

She moved to Chicago when she got her dream job in the advertising industry. Throughout her career she realized she had an interest in digital media.  She’s spent the last 25 years at Publicis Media where she’s focused on media investment – quite simply – how advertising space is bought and sold. Most surprisingly, she found her career in numbers, not words. 

She’s returned to the world of words with her debut novel, And They Had A Great Fall.  It’s a second chance love story, set in a foreign city with a dash of a celebrity secret romance.  Writing this novel has felt like coming home as the two sides of her brain merge. 

When not at her computer, she can be found hanging with her husband, Scott, teenage daughter, three dogs and one mean cat.