Born in Sydney, Australia, Cheryl has lived in Sydney, Singapore, London and the south of France.
She is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and editor, who has worked at the BBC, run a theatre company and has established a unique indie publishing house in London with prestigious authors from around the world. The company was a finalist in the 2019 and 2020 Independent Publisher Guild Awards for Diversity in Publishing and Cheryl was a finalist in the itv National Diversity Awards 2019 for Lifetime Achievement.
She initiated the Virginia Prize for Fiction to promote women novelists and is engaged in a project to bring a life sized statue of Virginia Woolf to Richmond upon Thames, where Woolf lived and worked for 10 years.
Cheryl has two grown up daughters and is working on a documentary about contemporary music. Her previous documentary film won 4 awards at film festivals in the USA and aired on BBC 4 in 2020 being named a Sunday Times Critics Choice programme.
Number of print copies tba with author on basis of market prediction • Completed manuscript desirable although we also work with authors to develop ideas • Looking for diverse contemporary and historical fiction, literary fiction, and crime fiction, as well as non-fiction arts and culture, particularly film and music from a diverse perspective.
Aurora Metro Books is an award-winning independent publisher based in London established for more than 30 years, We have published over 250 authors from around the world including Germaine Greer, Meera Syal, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jean-Claude Carriere and Nawal el Sadaawi. We publish both in print and digital and distribute our books in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. We sell rights internationally at bookfairs and devise a marketing campaign with the author.
With the launch of our imprint Supernova Books, we are expanding our non-fiction list to focus on the arts and culture, technology and lifestyle.
'The British Beat Explosion' was voted best Blues Book 2014, and 'Silent Women: pioneers of cinema' was voted best book on silent film in 2016. Our new series for 2020 has kicked off with '50 Women in the Blues' receiving universal acclaim, followed by '50 Women Sculptors' launched in association with the Royal Society of Sculptors.
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