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Rowena Cherry

http://www.rowenacherry.com

Author of Chess-inspired ("mating") titles. Gods from outer space. Sexy SFR. Poking fun, (pun intended). Shameless word-play. Rowena Cherry's youth was spent on the tiny British island of Guernsey: a mystical, idyllic setting with its prehistoric earth-goddess, historic Martello towers, underground gun emplacements, and legends of faery men. Having been a school chess champion and winner of the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award, Rowena went to ancient Cambridge University for her four-year combined honors degree in English and Education, after which she taught at exclusive boarding schools, first in Dorset, then in London. Eventually Rowena met and married her auto designer husband, who whirled her off to Germany to live the glamorous life of an alien abroad. Reassigned to America, she rode beside her husband in pace cars at the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400 and has flown in corporate jets to exotic locations. Her fast-paced life so far has been fantastic inspiration for romance novel scenarios and alien-world building. Rowena lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter. -------------------------------------- Books so far: (all chess-titles) Forced Mate (e-book, January 2005) Forced Mate (paperback, November 2004) Mating Net (e-book, short, October 2005) Insufficient Mating Material (paperback, February 2007) KNIGHT’S FORK (paperback, newly released on Amazon 2008) 1. Forced Mate, ISBN 978-0-505-52601-4 2. Insufficient Mating Material, ISBN 978-0-505-52711-0 3. KNIGHT’S FORK,ISBN 978-0-505-52740-0 http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot. com

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MATING NET wins 2006 Best E-Book Fiction award from USABookNews.com
November 2, 2006

2 comments posted.

Re: Santa Honey (5:42am October 24, 2009):

The SIIA put out an entertaining video on YouTube called "Don't Copy That 2"

If you watch it to the end, you will see details of how anyone could win a two million dollar reward if they help catch and convict a pirate of music or video.

There are thousands of comments on the video (which also says "don't copy ebooks") by furious pirates. It is not unusual for pirates to tell authors "We'll steal from you because we can, and your work isn't worth paying for, and if you complain, we'll kill you."

Re: Santa Honey (5:37am October 24, 2009):

Someone asked how to recognize a pirate site. Simply put, an e-book cannot be shared (unless someone hands you their loaded e-book reader). So, if you can get an ebook for free by downloading it (unless you are on the publisher's site, or the author's site) it's probably stolen.

It's most unlikely that an individual on e-bay has "resell rights" for instance. If the front matter says "all rights reserved" that means that no one has the right to reproduce or distribute (or plagiarize) the story.

There is no such thing as fair use with ebooks because every time to try to email it to someone else, you create a copy.

People who do not like the current law tend to offer their opinion of how the law ought to be. Readers do not have copyrights.