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= Sheri Cobb South =

Sheri Cobb South (born July 23, 1959 in Huntsville, Alabama) is a best-selling author of more than 30 books. Her John Pickett Mystery series of humorous, historical Regency mysteries has won multiple national and Colorado Authors League awards. Her novels have been translated into half a dozen languages and several of them into audiobooks.

Early life and education

South is the daughter of William Elbert Cobb (a NASA engineer) and Jayne (a homemaker, nee Braswell) Cobb. She attended Fairview High School in Cullman County, Alabama. In 1980, she graduated magna cum laude from Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama with an A.A. Liberal Arts degree. And in 1992, South graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama with a B.A. degree in English.1 It was during her freshman year at Fairview High School that South first learned of Regency Romance novels. While working as a volunteer in the school library, British author ""Georgette Heyer"" books always stood out to her due to their artistic covers and descriptive blurbs. It was the novel Arabella (published in 1949) that first had South captivated by the Regency universe.

Career

In 1988, South began writing a young adult novel, which was published in 1991 as part of ""Bantam Books"" long-running ""Sweet Dreams series"" under the title ""Wrong-Way Romance"". She went on to write four more Sweet Dreams books before Bantam discontinued the line in 1995. In the late 1990's, South wrote a Regency romance called The Weaver Takes a Wife, which paired the very haughty, very beautiful daughter of a duke with the owner of a cotton mill, a man who was fabulously wealthy, but had no claims to gentility at all. A hybrid of traditional Regency mystery and romance, her John Pickett Mystery series continues to draw readers from both genres.

Personal

A native of Alabama, South and her husband, the parents of two adult children, have lived in Colorado since 2011.

Bibliography

Bantam Sweet Dreams:

Wrong-Way Romance (""Sweet Dream Series ") Bantam Books. January 1991. ISBN 0553288407. ISBN 978-0553288407

""That Certain Feeling"" (""Sweet Dream Series ") Bantam Books. November 1991. ISBN 0553293540

""The Cinderella Game"" (""Sweet Dream Series ") Bantam Books. May 1992. ISBN 0553294547. ISBN 978-0553294545

""Don’t Bet on Love"" (""Sweet Dream Series ") Bantam Books. April 1994.

""Blame It on Love"" (""Sweet Dream Series ") Bantam Books. June 1995. ISBN 0553566822, 978-0553566826. ISBN 978-0553566826

Other Preteen/Young Adult Books:

Bama Boy (April 2013) ISBN :1482633361. ISBN ‎978-1482633368

Put Me In, Coach! (with co-author Trevor South, March 2019). ISBN 1729584993

Stand-Alone Romances:

Of Paupers and Peers (August 2013) ISBN 1490927093. ISBN 978-1490927091

Baroness in Buckskin (April 2015) ISBN 1506111440. ISBN 978-1506111445

Moon over the Mediterranean (June 2017) ISBN 0692862919. ISBN 978-0692862919

Miss Darby’s Duenna (October 2019) ISBN 168685370X. ISBN 978-1686853708

Christian Fiction:

The Chance of a Lifetime (originally published as Restless Hearts) The Cobra and the Lily (December 2004) ISBN 1594142947. ISBN 978-1594142949

Other Historical Mysteries:

Babes in Tinseltown: A Mystery of Hollywood’s Golden Age (April 2012) ISBN 147009374X. ISBN 978-1470093747.

The “Weaver” Regency Romance Series:

The Weaver Takes a Wife (January 2014) ISBN 1492261211. ISBN 978-1492261216

Brighton Honeymoon (December 2017) ISBN 1981217665. ISBN 978-1981217663

French Leave (July 2018) ISBN 1983725579. ISBN 978-1983725579

The Desperate Duke (December 2018) ISBN 1727358945. ISBN 978-1727358940

The John Pickett Mysteries:

In Milady’s Chamber (April 2013) ISBN 1483915735. ISBN 978-1483915739

A Dead Bore (May 2013) ISBN 1483958612. ISBN 978-1483958613

Pickpocket’s Apprentice: A John Pickett Novella (March 2015) ISBN 1508424438. ISBN 978-1508424437

Waiting Game: Another John Pickett Novella (March 2016) ISBN 1523882859. ISBN 978-1523882854

For Deader or Worse (February 2017) Sonatina Press. ISBN 0692729836. ISBN 978-0692729830

Mystery Loves Company (January 2018) Sonatina Press. ISBN 0692893172. ISBN 978-0692893173

Family Plot (February 2018) ISBN 0692978887. ISBN 978-0692978887

Peril by Post (October 2018) Sonatina Press, ISBN 0692083596. ISBN 978-0692083598

Into Thin Eire (September 2019) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1733439102. ISBN 978-1733439107

Too Hot to Handel (October 2019) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1733439110. ISBN 978-1733439114

Dinner Most Deadly (March 2020) ISBN 1733439129. ISBN 978-1733439121

Brother, Can You Spare a Crime? (June 2020) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1733439153. ISBN 978-1733439152

Nowhere Man: Another John Pickett Novella (October 2020) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1733439188. ISBN 978-1733439183

Death Can Be Habit-Forming (September 2021) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1737336529. ISBN 978-1737336525

In the Family Way (November 2022) Sonatina Press. ISBN 173733657X. ISBN 978-1737336570

Nonfiction:

Triple Your Income in Three Years: Career-Building Steps for Writers on Any Budget (April 2022) Sonatina Press. ISBN 1737336553. ISBN 978-1737336556

Awards

1996 Royal Ascot Award for Best Unpublished Regency Romance for Miss Darby’s Duenna

2007 3rd place, RIO Award, Historical Romance category for Of Paupers and Peers

2019 ""Colorado Authors League"" Award of Excellence, Romance category for The Desperate Duke

2019 Independent Audiobook Awards, Romance category for Brighton Honeymoon

2020 Independent Audiobook Awards, Mystery category for Into Thin Eire (narrator Joel Froomkin also won Best Male Narrator for this same title)

2022 Audiobook Reviewer Award, Best Historical Mystery - A Dead Bore

2022 Audiobook Reviewer Award, Best Mystery Series - Family Plot

Additionally, South’s The John Pickett Mysteries is a four-time Earphones Award Winner, by AudioFile Magazine for Pickpocket's Apprentice, Family Plot, Peril by Post, and Into Thin Eire

References

1 “Sheri Cobb South,” Something about the Author (New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995), volume 82, p. 226.

External links

Official Sheri Cobb South website ""www.shericobbsouth.com""