Sam's Biography

Like a coven of witches under a Gibbous moon, Sam Cheever dances the razor edge between fantasy and reality, alternately reaching toward the freedom and delight of life in her fantastical world and then drawing back reluctantly, before it pulls her whole into its tempting embrace. She functions well enough in the real world, but throughout her day she glances fondly and often toward her fantasies, holding wistfulness in her heart, along with the hope that someday she can shake off the real world’s hold on her, and jump butt first into delicious whimsy.

As a reader Sam is very impatient. She quickly loses interest if a story doesn’t have a good pace and snappy dialogue. Sam’s inability to focus in a backwash of human angst and subtleties works out well for her readers, since she writes the way she likes to read. Her characters live in an “in your face” world that pulses with tension, wrapped around an endless supply of world altering dilemmas. She paints her characters the same way she does the world they live in, with a heady mixture of vibrant detail and hidden mystique.

In her real life, Sam lives on a hobby farm in Indiana with 9 dogs, 4 horses, 2 barn cats, 2 daughters, and one husband. Not necessarily in that order. When asked why, why, why on the 9 dogs (yes, they all live in the house!), Sam simply shrugs and says she’s stupid. But what she really means to say is that she’s a dog-aholic. She of course can’t be blamed for her addiction. She is a victim. And along those lines, if anyone knows of a support group for this addiction please write Sam at samcheever@samcheever.com and fill her in.

Along with this website, Sam also keeps a blog at http://tweenyouandme.blogspot.com/. Please visit occasionally to find out what Sam has on her mind. Just remember as you do that she is sometimes only one extremely small step away from permanently entering the world of fantasy. For this reason she should be taken VERY lightly!