Cheré Coen

Cheré Dastugue Coen is an award-winning journalist, instructor of writing, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. Her nonfiction titles include "Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History," "Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana" and "Exploring Cajun Country: An Historic Guide to Acadiana," all by The History Press. Her other books include "Cooking in Cajun Country" with Carl Breaux (Gibbs Smith, Aug. 2009) and "Magic's in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris and Sachets" with coauthor Jude Bradley, originally published with Llewellyn and now an expanded Kindle edition. Her novels under the pen name of Cherie Claire (amazon.com/author/cherieclaire) include historical romances "A Cajun Dream," "The Letter" novella and "The Cajuns" historical series of "Emilie," "Rose," "Gabrielle" and "Delphine." "A Cajun Dream" and "The Letter" are now ebooks. Look for the rest of the series, including several Cajun contemporary romances, coming soon as ebooks! Cheré writes a weekly book column in the Gannett newspapers of Louisiana titled "Louisiana Book News." Visit her blog at LouisianaBookNews.blogspot.com. Her other blogs include WeirdSouth.blogspot.com and HauntedDeepSouth.blogspot.com. For more information, visit her web site at http://cherecoen.wix.com/cherecoen and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram.