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Robert Hays


Biography

Robert Hays has been a newspaper reporter, public relations writer, magazine editor, and university professor and administrator. A native of Illinois, he taught in Texas and Missouri and retired in 2008 from a long journalism teaching career at the University of Illinois. He has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina, the home state of his wife, Mary, and is a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop. His publications include academic journal and popular periodical articles and seven previous books, one released in paperback under a new title. This is his third novel. Two earlier novels, Circles in the Water and The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris, also were published by Vanilla Heart. Robert and Mary live in Champaign, Illinois. They have two sons and a grandson and share (long story!) a cat named Eddie with the family next door.

Books

Blood on the Roses    by Robert Hays
Price: $4.99 USD. 76230 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
Blood on the Roses is a frank and honest story that does justice to its splendid east Tennessee setting, stunning from beginning to end in its juxtaposition of raw ugliness and beauty and its historical veracity that captures both the engaging qualities of the Southern people and the terrible wrongs of discrimination and outrageous acts of pure racism carried out by a few.
Equinox, A Short Story    by Robert Hays
Price: $0.99 USD. 5620 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on March 31, 2011. Fiction.
Essie’s home, once filled with the sounds of happy children, is quiet and lonely now that even the grandchildren are grown and gone. Her only company is Plato, the devoted orange tabby cat who is her long-time companion. She expected more from life when she married Arthur.
Paco's Visions, a Short Story    by Robert Hays
Price: $0.99 USD. 10020 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on March 25, 2011. Fiction.
A Short Story by Robert Hays, author of Circles in the Water, The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris, and The Baby River Angel. Paco has visions, and his most recent vision helps him believe in the power of love. For a twelve year old boy, it is a big revelation. He and his sister, Rosa, live with Mama Jan, in a rich man's mansion on Sanibel Island. Will his vision become their reality?
The Baby River Angel    by Robert Hays
Price: $4.99 USD. 87670 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on October 11, 2009. Fiction.
When Birdie Wilson and his two boys find a baby floating in a basket on the Ohio River, they can’t begin to imagine the impact their discovery is to have on their little town of Cambria.
The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris    by Robert Hays
Price: $4.99 USD. 82970 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 14, 2009. Fiction.
Life is good for Bradley Morris, except for the nightmares and horrible memories of long-past days in combat. With his beloved wife Lizzie at his side, he travels back to the battlefield in Sicily and finds that facing his demons head-on helps bring peace of mind. But now he faces a far more painful situation: the potential loss of Lizzie, … in good health one minute and near death the next.
Circles in the Water    by Robert Hays
Price: $4.99 USD. 91270 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 13, 2009. Fiction.
Whatever else this story may be, it is primarily one of young love of childhood sweethearts in a setting both charming and ugly, and the young man and woman they become. It interweaves their contemporary lives with the chronicle of their early years as part of an inseparable foursome of troubled youth and the tragedies that befall their comrades, DJ and Ray-Gene.

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