Me with my Tootsie, my loyal (and spoiled rotten) fur baby!
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Rosemarie Perry (that’s me), a former school counselor, now living in Marietta, Georgia, grew up in Campbell, Ohio, a mostly blue-collar melting-pot community near Youngstown. I knew I always wanted to be a writer. I remember daydreaming in elementary school instead of paying attention to the nuns at the Catholic school.
My early writing aspirations were dashed by a high school English teacher. After proudly submitting a short story about teens surviving a nuclear blast, she gave me a D on the paper. I was devastated. Believing the negative voices in my head, I capitulated to a fragile teen ego and gave up on a writing career but never stopped creating stories.
Instead, because the motivations of people always fascinated me, I pursued a degree in psychology at The Ohio State University, followed by a MS in Counseling from Youngstown State University, spending many years as a school counselor. Mercer University provided an opportunity to teach a college level psychology course at a State of Georgia prison. This provided invaluable experience when writing my novel, Bitter Sugar.
I am the mother of three children, two of whom are deceased. My son, a USAF Major, serves as a C-17 pilot and is currently stationed overseas. People describe me as a lover of all creatures, furry, feathered, and finned. (I supposed that includes Chewbaca…) I am also a certified Zumba instructor.
Bitter Sugar is a debut novel. I have written two books for young readers: A Reindear Tale, about the year Santa’s team were all female, and My Dog, Me, about a boy and his dog who trade places. I am currently working on The Lost Egg, a novel about one of the missing Romanoff Faberge eggs that was considered lost - until it turned up in a Midwestern pawn shop.
Rosemarie Perry (that’s me), a former school counselor, now living in Marietta, Georgia, grew up in Campbell, Ohio, a mostly blue-collar melting-pot community near Youngstown. I knew I always wanted to be a writer. I remember daydreaming in elementary school instead of paying attention to the nuns at the Catholic school.
My early writing aspirations were dashed by a high school English teacher. After proudly submitting a short story about teens surviving a nuclear blast, she gave me a D on the paper. I was devastated. Believing the negative voices in my head, I capitulated to a fragile teen ego and gave up on a writing career but never stopped creating stories.
Instead, because the motivations of people always fascinated me, I pursued a degree in psychology at The Ohio State University, followed by a MS in Counseling from Youngstown State University, spending many years as a school counselor. Mercer University provided an opportunity to teach a college level psychology course at a State of Georgia prison. This provided invaluable experience when writing my novel, Bitter Sugar.
I am the mother of three children, two of whom are deceased. My son, a USAF Major, serves as a C-17 pilot and is currently stationed overseas. People describe me as a lover of all creatures, furry, feathered, and finned. (I supposed that includes Chewbaca…) I am also a certified Zumba instructor.
Bitter Sugar is a debut novel. I have written two books for young readers: A Reindear Tale, about the year Santa’s team were all female, and My Dog, Me, about a boy and his dog who trade places. I am currently working on The Lost Egg, a novel about one of the missing Romanoff Faberge eggs that was considered lost - until it turned up in a Midwestern pawn shop.
My "roomies", Tootsie and Romeo
