Member Spotlight:  Cheryl Martin
Author: Jody Wallace
Original Publication Date in Love Notes: September 2007

Q. Are you a native of Nashville or somewhere else?
A. Somewhere else (Indiana).

Q. If somewhere else, where, and how did you end up here?
A. Do we really have time for that? OK. I was a preacher’s kid. So I started in Indiana, then moved to Cadiz, Ky. When I graduated for high school, my parents moved to Louisville and then Frankfort. I went to Bowling Green to attend Western Kentucky University and met my true love.

Q. Are you married and do you have children or pets?
A. Yep, to a sports nut named John. I have a 5-year-old, Caroline. She started kindergarten this fall.

Q. Have a day job? Tell us about it?
A. I’m magazine editor at the newspaper in Evansville, Ind. It’s a new position (as in it’s been newly created so I’m not sure what to tell yet. I’ve been working with some of our magazines for about nine months now).

Q. What do you like do to when you’re not working?
A. Sleep. Attend tea parties my daughter gives.

Q. Other than romance, what genres do you read?
A. A few mysteries, Dora and Disney Princess beginner readers.

Q. Describe your favorite vacation spot?
A. Someplace where I don’t have cell phone connections.

Q. How long have you been writing?
A. I don’t know if I can count that high. Since middle school or so.

Q. What are you working on now?
A. A women’s fiction that delves into the isolation of the child-bearing years.

Q. How much progress have you made toward publication?
A. I’ve submitted one book to Harlequin and been rejected. I’m working on a second novel.

Q. Who are your favorite romance writers?
A. Meg Cabot. Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Q. What other genres do you read and who are your favorite authors in those?
A. Mystery and Diane Mott Davidson.

Q. Describe the book of your heart.
A. Something funny and true.

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