Rowena Cherry Award winning author Rowena Cherry is a self-described lifelong lurker and fact magpie. Rowena'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 emerging from a cleft in the Hommet Headland to mate with human women. 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 in pace cars at the Indy 500 and Brickyard and has flown in corporate jets to exotic locations. Her life so far has been fantastic inspiration for romance novel scenes and alien-world building.

Rowena lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter. Her debut novel, Forced Mate was published in 2004

Her award-winning novel, Insufficient Mating Material was published in 2007.

that you can and will enjoy it.”

“I enjoyed it once. I am very happy with my memories. I don’t need you or your experiment to prove anything,” she said stiffly.

“Once?” He raised an eyebrow. His lips twitched. Too late, Martia-Djulia realized that she had just contradicted one of her earlier statements.

“The Aim of the Experiment is to discover whether or not we are sexually compatible,” Djetth said loftily. She suspected that he was amusing himself by parodying a formal checklist. “Method: to have mind-blowing recreational sex using positions and techniques that mitigate or avoid unfortunate consequences. Expected result--”

“What unfortunate consequences?”

“Insects in your hair?” he teased. “Sand in your baby box. A baby. Infection. Injury. Legal consummation of a Mating we might not want.”

His gaze flickered. Martia-Djulia had the impression that his list was deliberately ordered.

“Injury to whom?” she asked, ignoring the glossed over “baby.”

“I’ve wondered why you haven’t blasted me backward onto my butt since our Mating Day. I’ve certainly deserved it.”

“Yes you have!” she agreed heatedly.

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INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction and Literature: Romance category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards Fiction & Literature: Romance