Cheryl McKay has been professionally writing since 1997. Cheryl wrote the screenplay for The Ultimate Gift, based on Jim Stovall's novel. The Ultimate Gift won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, received three Movieguide Nominations, winning one of the Ten Best Family Films of 2007, and won a CAMIE Award, for one of the Top Ten Films of the year. Cheryl also wrote the DVD for Gigi: God's Little Princess, another book adaptation based on the book by Sheila Walsh, as well as the Wild & Wacky audio series and books with Frank Peretti. She wrote a half-hour drama for teenagers about high school violence, called Taylor's Wall. It was produced in Los Angeles by Family Theater Productions. Her screenplay, Never the Bride, is being adapted into a novel for Random House Publishers/Waterbrook Press and will be released June 16, 2009. Cheryl has distinguished herself as one who writes family-friendly, uplifting, inspirational stories with heart. She resides in Los Angeles, California.