Location: Australia
Member Since: Feb. 28, 2013

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Robin Storey

Biography

After many years as a freelance writer, I'm now hooked on fiction writing and love being an indie author. I live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia - beautiful one day, perfect the next - where we complain if the temperature drops to below 14 degrees Centigrade.

I've written six books so far - comedy crime How Not To Commit Murder, romantic comedy Perfect Sex, an e-book of four short stories Comedy Shorts, noir romance novella An Affair With Danger, memoir Making The Breast Of It - Breast Cancer Stories of Humour and Joy and suspense-noir novel A Time For Penance.

An Affair With Danger and A Time For Penance are available on Amazon only.

If you'd like to find out more about my books, you can find them here on Smashwords or on my website. http://storey-lines.com/my-novels/

As you can see, I love writing in a variety of genres. After writing An Affair With Danger, I realised how much I enjoy writing edgy, suspenseful stories with flawed characters who are often underdogs and frequently don't act like heroes. My most recent novel published in May 2017, A Time For Penance, is about a woman who travels 20 years back in time to undo a murder she committed.

I'd love you to come and visit my website Storey-Lines http://storey-lines.com/ and check out my blog. If you subscribe to my readers' group to receive my newsletter on books, reading and all things bookish, you'll receive a FREE e-book of my novel How Not To Commit Murder.

I love connecting with readers and other writers, so please come on over to my Facebook page and say Hi. https://www.facebook.com/RobinStoreywriter

I'm a certified book nerd (too many books, not enough time!) and am a useful team member on quiz nights for the literary questions - but not much else. I enjoy hiking and chilling out at the beach, which is five minutes drive from my home. My partner and I walked the full Camino Frances pilgrimage (775 kilometres) across northern Spain in September and October 2016. It was a once in a lifetime experience and I would highly recommend it.

I don't have any unusual hobbies or strange pets.

Smashwords Interview

What is your writing process?
I'm in between a pantser (plotting as you go) and a planner. I don't need to have the story plotted out scene by scene, but I like to have an overall roadmap of where I'm heading and how I'm going to get there. I've found Story Engineering by Larry Brooks very helpful for this.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
I don't remember the first story I ever read, but I was a compulsive reader as a child. Curled up in a chair engrossed in a book was my favourite activity. (still is!) I devoured all of Enid Blyton's adventure books - Secret Seven etc - the Bobbsey Twins and classics such as the Narnia books by CS Lewis, pretty much anything that took me into an entirely different world. When I was ten, I won a prize in a writing competition - 25 paperback books that I could choose myself from a catalogue. I poured over it for days - I was in heaven!
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Robin Storey online

Website: http://www.storey-lines.com
Twitter: @RobinStorey1
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robinstoreyauthor
Blog: http://www.storey-lines.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com

Books

Making The Breast Of It: Breast Cancer Stories of Humour and Joy by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 25,520. Language: English. Published: July 16, 2016. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Women's health
When author Robin Storey first heard the words, ‘you have breast cancer,’ she burst into tears. But she couldn’t help finding the humorous side as she underwent treatment, collecting frank and funny stories along the way from other breast cancer survivors. If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with breast cancer and want to feel positive and uplifted, you’ll love this frank, amusing memoir.
Comedy Shorts - Humorous Fiction Short Stories - Four Comedy Short Stories by
Price: Free! Words: 20,640. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
SLEUTHING FOR BEGINNERS: Angela decides to play detective when her neighbour dies suddenly. A PEACEFUL DEATH: George is visited by the Angel of Death, who makes some unusual demands. A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND: Ali sets out to find her dead uncle's secret, ill-gotten fortune. THE MUSE: Esther is a struggling writer until she meets her muse, who turns her world upside down.
Perfect Sex by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 74,320. Language: English. Published: November 24, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit
Forty-something divorcee and writer Susie Hamilton joins an internet dating agency – under the guise of professional research for a book. With her hyped-up profile she attracts a horde of admirers and the result is plenty of material for her book, but her love life is a series of mishaps and disasters. Will Susie find her Mr Perfect or will she have to make do with Mr-As-Good-As-It-Gets?
How Not To Commit Murder by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 113,180. Language: English. Published: July 15, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Career conman Reuben Littlejohn is determined to go straight this time after his release from prison, with the help of his new wife. But he hadn't counted on stumbling across a plot to kill his parole officer Lucy, with whom he is madly in lust. Or being blackmailed into becoming an accomplice to her murder. Can he save his own life as well as Lucy's - without his wife finding out?

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