Cheryl's Bio

Cheryl’s articles and stories have appeared in numerous Canadian periodicals. In 2010 she made her book publishing debut with Come Looking for Me, a work of historical fiction set on the high seas during the War of 1812. She completed its first draft in the 2004 Huntsville Festival of the Arts “Muskoka Novel Marathon,” and earned top honours from the panel of judges. After a few more years of research, her greatly expanded and refined novel was published by Blue Butterfly Books. Her second and third novels, Second Summer of War and Run Red with Blood, were published by Dundurn Press in 2014 and 2018 respectively. In October of 2025, her fourth novel, Beyond the Pale Horizon, was published by Blue Butterfly Books. All four of her novels are part of the Seasons of War series.

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For over 22 years now, the majority of my days have been spent sitting at my writing desk, creating sentences, hemmed in by a fortress of books on sailing ships & shipwrecks, the British Royal Navy and the naval War of 1812, listening to the movie scores of Master & Commander and Pride & Prejudice (among others) that transport me back in time to a world that has long since passed away, and help me to imagine lives that were once played out on the high seas.
- Cheryl Cooper
Author of Beyond the Pale Horizon, Run Red with Blood, Second Summer of War and Come Looking for Me