About – Cherie Mitchell
Cherie
Mitchell is a New Zealand-based writer with a strong interest in creating
stories which focus on relationships and character evolution.
After
giving up a corporate life in Australia three years ago and opting for an
adventure, Cherie spent several months in China working as an English Teacher.
Over the course of this assignment, Cherie lived in Chenghai, Shantou a
“village” of 5 million people and the toy-producing capital of the world.
Chenghai is a region where foreigners are still few and far between and
Cherie’s pale skin and blonde hair were very much a novelty here. She enjoyed
the experience immensely and laughingly jokes that she felt completely at home
in the once-in-a-lifetime role of goddess
due to her unusual appearance in a village of dark-haired citizens.
On her
return to New Zealand Cherie decided the time was right to embark on a
full-time freelance writing career. She had written sporadically for magazines
(fiction), newsletters (articles), and newspapers (articles, film reviews, and
restaurant reviews) for most of her life but her true interest lay in the role
of the storyteller.
Cherie’s
first freelance assignment involved writing executive biographies and resumes
for a US startup company who were focused on creating a platform to assist
high-performing execs move into Board of Director roles. This project (still
ongoing two years later) gave Cherie an excellent insight into the American
psyche and culture as the biographies and resumes were transcribed and created
from actual audio interviews. To date Cherie has completed nearly 2000 resumes
and bios for this organization and has been advised that her input was integral
to the company making the 2017 Inc 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies.
After being
approached to ghost write romance e-books, box sets, and series for a US
publisher, Cherie found herself researching the previously unknown (to her)
genre of Wild West Mail Order Brides. A keen researcher, Cherie soon uncovered
a wealth of information and, with a free rein on plots and characters, she had
soon written several romances from scratch.
Cherie treated the romance book writing as another work assignment and,
along with the resume and bio writing, was kept busy in a full-time writing
capacity.
It wasn’t
until ten months after producing the first set of stories that Cherie began to
wonder just how “her” stories were faring in the marketplace. Especially after
the publisher contacted her with a large bonus payment and an offer of an
overseas trip. Curious as to whether the original book titles had been kept once
published, Cherie searched online and discovered that yes, the books had been
printed exactly as written, and surprise! – they now had a huge following. The
publisher had created two fictional authors, along with fictional bios, under
whom to release the books and Cherie’s stories now had an eager audience, all
apparently anticipating the release of the next book. At this stage, Cherie has
written 150 of these books under the veil of anonymity.
Fast
forward to November this year. One of Cherie’s own romance stories, Desire, was
released by another US publisher to the US and Spanish markets. At this point
Cherie decided that the time was right to begin to write and release books
under her own name. She is gradually growing her own audience (due to
contractual obligations she is unable to reveal her ghost written names) and is
happily exploring life as a valid author. Current works-in-progress include a
romance novel, a coming of age novel set in Vietnam at the time of the Chinese
infiltration (300 years ago), and a crime fiction novel in collaboration with a
former Head of the Fraud Squad in New Zealand.
Cherie Mitchell – 150 Wild West Romances Bio
and Links
Cherie
Mitchell is a New Zealand-based freelance writer and author with a global
outlook and a love of research.
Cherie has
researched and ghost written 150 Wild West romances based in the gold rush era
of the late 1800s, a time when the very first concept of mail order brides came
into being. The American Civil War and the gold rush itself depleted the East
Coast of the US of young men, leaving many young ladies in the East anxious of
their chances of ever finding a husband. So began the Mail Order Bride
services, with erstwhile and hopeful single men placing advertisements in
newspapers and church flyers back East in the hopes of enticing marriageable
young ladies to the new frontier.
Following
the success of these books (released by the publisher under the names of two
fictional authors who cannot be named due to contractual obligations), Cherie
has recently begun to write and release books under her own name. Two of these
books are also based in the Wild West Mail Order Bride era but are a much
steamier version of her clean and wholesome ghost written works. Cherie chose to write these two books after
completing a mass of research and discovering that prostitution, “soiled
doves”, and bordellos were as much a part of the old West as cowboys, outlaws,
and pioneer families.
Cherie is
very much a cross-genre writer and her other books include a YA time travel
history book, two contemporary romances, and a non-fiction account of the
2010-2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquakes.
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