Cheryl is the author of five traditionally published books, several 100 magazine articles, and has been a featured speaker at 50 plus dental and medical conferences in the United States, Canada, and the UK. Her cancer survival guide won a silver medal in the IPPY, and
Cheryl began her writing career at age thirteen, when she had a humorous story published in the Arizona Highways magazine. She still has the $50 check she received for that story–and considers it the only easy money she has ever made in writing. While in college, Cheryl began free-lancing for the August Company in Phoenix and ghost-writing a stock picking newsletter. She subsequently became the founding editor of PracticeSmart, a marketing newsletter in dentistry that is still flourishing, as well as a blogger for both Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha.
After moving to San Diego and then San Francisco, Cheryl founded IntelliSys, Inc, a technology and marketing consulting company in dentistry and oral surgery. She also became a columnist with Dentistry Today, headquartered in New York City and launched a speaking career that had her doing regular gigs for the American Dental Association, the British Columbia College of Dental Surgeons, Wells Fargo Bank, and Cornell University. In addition, she consulted with Baylor College of Medicine to launch a telemedicine project that reached into remote towns in Alaska and elsewhere to provide emergency medical guidance.
More recently, Cheryl moved to Kaua’i and turned her attention to writing novels. Along the way, she was diagnosed with cancer and wrote the award-winning cancer survival guide: Busting Loose: Cancer Survivors Tell You What Your Doctor Won’t. (Extensively updated second edition due out in September!)
In addition to her fiction writing, Cheryl regularly publishes magazine and blog articles that deal with cancer research, relief work, writing and publishing.
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