If self-styled gods from outer space are supernatural...: fiction by Rowena Cherry

[Rowena]

My name is Rowena Cherry. My books are variously described as "Fantasy", "Futuristic", "Original", and sfr (science fiction romance).

If I may, I'd like to share my Mission Statement.

My goal as an author is to give good value. I expect to provide my readers with six to eight hours of amusement, a couple of really good laughs, a romantic frisson or two from the sensual scenes, a thoroughly satisfying Happy Ever After, something to think about when the book is finished.

I have three full length novels and a novella in my "god-Princes of Tigron" series which began with Forced Mate a spoof of historical abduction romances (nothing gets ripped) where the abductor is a morally questionable alien.

He has Machiavellian tendencies, and after he finds his perfect "mate" (lots of chess terminology), he decides that the best way to neuter his most dangerous political rivals who are now his in-laws is to entrap them into politically disastrous marriages to liability wives (who happen to be his own scandalous sisters).

Insufficient Mating Material is the first such exercise. A rival chooses a new face and identity and a "fate worse than death" over execution. A shotgun royal wedding is arranged, but to everyone's astonishment, the bride-to-be balks at the sight of her groom and hurls him, telekinetically without touching him, onto his scrawny rump.

The principal villain decides to shoot the unhappy couple down and maroon them on an alien subtropical island until the bride learns to appreciate her destiny. Another villain fears that the bride's newly revealed telekinetic powers might bring to light an old crime he thought he'd gotten away with.

It's "Survivorman" with sex, "magic" and murder.

Knight's Fork is funnier, snarkier and less sexy. It's Helen of Troy in deep space, where all the Helen wanted from the Paris character was a sperm donation, but the intergalactic equivalent of the paparazzi caught her leaving his bedroom in tears and all the world leaders (including her husband and her brother) assumed the worst.