Cheryl Robinson
LITERARY CLIENT
After graduating from famed Cass Technical High School, native Detroiter Cheryl Robinson headed for D.C. where she attended Howard University for two years before returning to Detroit to complete her business degree from Wayne State University. It was at Wayne State where she discovered her passion for writing when a last minute decision to enroll in a fiction writing class as an elective opened Cheryl's imagination for creating memorable characters.
In 2001, shortly after the death of her only brother Benjamin Jr., Cheryl completed her first novel, Memories of Yesterday, which was dedicated to his memory. The following year Cheryl self-published Memories of Yesterday. And in 2003, her second novel When I Get Free. In 2004, after acquiring literary agent, Marc Gerald, Cheryl landed her first book deal with New American Library (NAL) a division of The Penguin Group, a major publishing company based in New York that re-released Memories of Yesterday in 2005 under the title If It Ain't One Thing with the sequel It's Like That also published by NAL the following year. "I will never forget the day Marc called me to tell me he was firming up a two-book deal for me. It was a lifelong dream that was finally coming true."
Three more book deals followed; one with HarperCollins Publishing company for the anthology These Are My Confessions in which Cheryl penned the novella Strapped, which was released in July 2007 and two more novels with Penguin (NAL); Sweet Georgia Brown, which was released in January 2008, and In Love With A Younger Man, which will be released in January 2009.
Cheryl currently resides in central Florida and is always hard at work on her next novel.
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