After graduating from the 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 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 a literary agent, she 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.

Two more book deals followed; one with HarperCollins Publishing company for the anthology These Are My Confessions in which Cheryl penned the novella Strapped, which will be released in July 2007 and another novel with Penguin (NAL) entitled Sweet Georgia Brown, which will be released in December 2007.

Aside from Detroit, Cheryl has also had the opportunity to live in Syracuse, Kansas City, Dallas, and Orlando, but so far her novels have all been set in the city that she knows the best--Detroit.
 

Sweet Georgia Brown
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Paperback: 357 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (January 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451222288
ISBN-13: 978-0451222282

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Meet Georgia Brown-a humble housewife determined to become a household name....

After eleven years of marriage, Georgia Brown is fed up with her husband, Marvin, a popular radio personality. It's not just because she suspects he's having an affair, or because she's suddenly expected to raise his thirteen-year-old daughter, Chloe-whom she never even knew existed. It's because of the comments he makes about her weight, their marriage, and their sex life...on national radio!

Now, to save their marriage, Marvin invites Georgia to the station for an on-air rebuttal, having no idea it will launch her career. Or that what began as a battle at home will now be a blistering war for all to hear...

These Are My Confessions
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by Joy King, Electa Rome Parks, Cheryl Robinson, Meta Smith

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780061193118
ISBN: 0061193119
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: July 01, 2007
Publisher: Avon Red
Release Date: June 26, 2007

Sizzling hot and soulful secret "confessions" from four of the most exciting voices in erotic black fiction!

Bianca's job as the new personal assistant to an arrogant NBA superstar is unending hell. But when the lights go down—and the uniform comes off—she's seduced by this hard-bodied athlete's off-the-court moves . . .
Love B-Ball Style by Joy King

Kennedy Logan is too ashamed to reveal the truth about her steamy relationship with hot, insatiable Drake—his sweet lies and hellacious lovemaking—to anyone except her private diary . . .
These Are My Confessions by Electa Rome Parks

Fresh from a break-up, uptight, unfulfilled middle school teacher Alexis heads to Texas, where they say everything is bigger—and where she finds a tasty Dallas police officer who's strapped with way more than a gun . . .
Strapped by Cheryl Robinson

Lucky went from waitress to recording star, with a string of hits and a Miami mansion. Now she's back home in the Windy City to tease and torture the handsome, cheating stud who broke her heart. But the man's hot loving may be too hard for her to resist . . .
Divas Need Love Too by Méta Smith

It's Like That
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ISBN: 0451217462
Format: Paperback, 320pp
Pub. Date: January 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Meeting Porter may be the best thing that ever happened to Winona Fairchild-besides the births of her two beautiful children. But as much as he wants to get married, Winona has good reason not to get too close to anyone, no matter how right it may seem.

Despite a threat from the past coming back to haunt him, Porter is willing to stand his ground. But when Winona's long-time secret is revealed to her kids, someone will have to pay. And Winona will learn how much the truth can hurt...and how much it can heal.

If It Ain't One Thing
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ISBN: 0451214056
Format: Paperback, 368pp
Pub. Date: February 2005
Publisher: NAL Trade

"A realistic, hard-hitting, urban contemporary novel that covers everything: family, friends, male/female relationships, spirituality, old demons, sensuality, secret sins, and more, and does so in a style that is engaging, thought-provoking, and entertaining. Offering you page after page of characters filled with passions that become their snare; characters that go through so much you can't help but wonder what's going to happen next." —Book-Remarks.com

Previously self-published as Memories of Yesterday (see below), and now re-released by The Penguin Group/New American Library, If It Ain't One Thing has two additional chapters from the self-published version, changes to earlier chapters, and a new ending. For those of you who may have read the self-published version, it's worth a second read before the sequel.

When I Get Free
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ISBN: 0972086714
Format: Paperback, 321pp
Pub. Date: August 2003
Publisher: Sterling Books

Theodore “Tower” Evans is smart, clever, and always one step ahead of the game. Under a different set of circumstances, he could have become a top executive at a Fortune 500 company or a successful entrepreneur. Instead, he became a statistic: one in three black men between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine under correctional supervision or control. He’s sentenced to forty years in an Oklahoma state prison for drug trafficking. Ten years later, Tower is paroled and living in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, trying to adjust to the changes that have occurred in the world. The only problem: His mind is still on lockdown.

As the pressure of the outside mounts against Tower and the voices in his head begin to collide, his paranoia takes over. He trusts no one. Not Tonya, the evangelist who believes in spreading more than the good news to Tower. Not Gail, an aspiring writer who begins penning a novel based on Tower’s life. Not Mary, his married parole officer whose possessiveness turns dangerous when she threatens to send him back to prison.  The years Tower spent on the inside have taken away the hope that he needs to regain before his temper destroys his second chance.

 When I Get Free is a novel inspired by the true events of an anonymous ex-con.

Memories of Yesterday
(re-published as If It Ain't One Thing) in February 2005

ISBN: 0972086706
Format: Paperback, 351pp
Pub. Date: January 2003
Publisher: Sterling Books

Porter Washington is a handsome Detroit Firefighter trying to live on twenty-seven thousand dollars a year while struggling to provide the materialistic lifestyle required of his longtime girlfriend, Reesey. When a lie ends Porter's current relationship, he becomes confused and questions himself, his sexuality, and the secrets that he buried with his brother.
After being dumped at the altar, Winona Fairchild packed her bags and fled Detroit for Fort Worth, Texas, with a man she barely knew. Now, seventeen years and two kids later, single Winona is embarking on a new career as an automotive designer for a major corporation. Excited with her recent promotion, which doubles her salary and allows her to relocate back to her hometown of Detroit, Winona decides to use the opportunity to hunt down a part of her past of which she refused to let go. Winona eventually discovers that true to form with her life, things are never quite the way they seem.

Memories of Yesterday is a novel for every man and woman who has hung on to pain and regret too long, postponing an opportunity for a better today and tomorrow.

 

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http://www.cherylrobinson.com

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