When I --reluctantly-- left Newnham College, Cambridge,
with my "good" Combined Honours degree, I had a full time
teaching job waiting for me at Knighton House,
a preparatory boarding school for girls within the Bryanston Group.
It was very full time!
After four years, I felt ready for the challenge of teaching older children, or even adults.
I moved to London, added qualifications for teaching English as a foreign language,
tutored Chaucer for a while, then took a post at a private school in Mill Hill.
In 1983 I married an American auto designer, who whisked me off to Germany for
the next eight years. I thoroughly enjoyed living in Germany, learned the language, and
added a German O Level to my porfolio.
In 1991 we moved to Detroit, and within a couple of years my husband was chosen
to be GM's fifth Vice President of Design. Since I was not required to be his translator,
home secretary, and occasional speech editor any more, I began to write fiction for my own
entertainment.
In 2003 I entered a national ... it might even have been global... contest sponsored by
Romantic Times BOOKclub and Dorchester Publishing to find
"the new voice in paranormal romance."
I was one of three finalists, and my success led to publication of my chess-titled
romance FORCED MATE, which I set partly in Cambridge, and I made my heroine a student at
Homerton College (which I knew rather better than Newham College).
Since then, I have added a short prequel, MATING NET, and am completing the third book
INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL for release in February 2007.
I teach chess to gifted seven year olds one morning a week during term time.
Best wishes,
Rowena Cherry
rowena@rowenacherry.com
http://www.rowenacherry.com/
Where heroines get more hero than they bargain for
