Meet Rosey Dow

She married David Dow during Christmas break of their senior year and went on to have five children during their first five years of marriage. While baby #2 was still in diapers, she saw a magazine ad for a writer's correspondence course. Intrigued, she filled out the coupon and mailed it in. At the time Dave had a job teaching in a Christian school. Their yearly income was $7,000. The cost of the course seemed astronomical. After much prayer and discussion, she enrolled.

Fourteen years passed. In 1987, she and Dave left the U.S. for the mission field in Grenada, West Indies, with their seven children. She started home schooling. Evenings, weekends, and holidays, she wrote reams. She sold nothing.

Finally, she heard about the Christian Writer's Guild and joined their program. Two months later, Heartsong Presents purchased her first novel, Megan's Choice. A year later, its sequel, Em's Only Chance, was accepted also.

Megan's Choice made Heartsong's list of Top Ten Historical Favorites for 1997. Rosey also made the list of Heartsong's Favorite New Authors for 1997.

Rosey's novella, Eyes Of The Heart, in the Christmas anthology, Fireside Christmas (September 1999, Barbor Publishing) recieved four stars from Romantic Times and appeared on the CBA Best-seller list in December, 1999, March, 2000, and January, 2001.

Her third Heartsong novel, Lisa's Broken Arrow, was released in May, 2000, and her new historical mystery/suspense novel set in 1925 Tennessee, Reaping the Whirlwind was released in July, 2000, by Winepress Publishing. In July, 2001, Reaping the Whirlwind won the national Catherine Marshall Christian Fiction Award in the category of historical fiction.

She has also written several articles and tracts and helped Dave write and edit ON TARGET, a monthly paper for the independent Baptist churches in Grenada.