Author biography

Author biography:

Sheryl Jordan, writer of Winter Of Fire, was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1949. She started writing at the age of 4. When she was younger, her life was full of reading books, drawing pictures and writing stories. For a several years her written work stayed unpublished. She became an illustrator, though all the time hoped that one day she would illustrate her own stories. In 1988 she began writting another book, and decided it would be her last attempt to publish a story. She wrote Rocco, which soon became her first published novel, it was published in the US under the name "A Time of Darkness". This book was her 13th written novel, and it was her first ever published book. It also won a major award in New Zealand. Sherryl has a daughter, Kym, and 2 grandchildren, Kael and Bethany. Kym is one of Sherryl's best critics, and often reads manuscripts before they are sent away to the publisher