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All About David Robinson

Hello. Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is David Robinson and I’m a writer.

Somewhere during my 62 years, I’ve also been a plumber and gas fitter, a trucker, an adult education teacher, and a hypnotherapist. But I’ve always been a writer. Ever since I first learned how to string words together, I’ve been a writer, even if it was only forging notes to explain skiving off school.

Twice married with four kids, five grandchildren and one crackpot Jack Russell named Joe, I was born in Yorkshire, but I’ve lived the other side of the Pennines for the last 32 years in the cotton town of Oldham. I live on the edge of the moors and through my front windows I have a spectacular view of hills and valleys… provided the bin wagon isn’t in the way.

When it comes to writing, I’m not trying to say anything about life’s ups and downs, I’m not hiding a deeply spiritual message in the words, and I’m certainly not on a pilgrimage. I write pulp fiction to entertain the readers. I write like a man possessed, turning out 1,000s of words per day. I do a spot of editing here and there, and I judge the occasional writing competition. I was an editor on the charity anthology, 50 Stories for Pakistan and a Managing Editor on a similar chairty title, 100 Stories for Queensland.

I was originally, traditionally published, albeit by small, independent presses, but last year, tired of the perpetual round of pitching agents and publishers, I made the decision to go it alone and I now put out all my work on the Kindle and on other e-readers through Smashwords. I also put my fiction titles up on Lulu as POD paperbacks.

I haven’t fully abandoned the traditional route to publication, however, and as I write, I’m waiting to hear from two publishers on different titles.

I concentrate on cosy crime. My Sanford Third Age Club Investigates series is a collection of whodunits solved by amateur sleuths in time-honoured Agatha Christie fashion. No gore, no buckets of blood, no steamy sex scenes, just entertaining puzzles with all the clues in the text if the reader can spot them.

I also write psychological horror and darker crime novels; works like Voices and the soon-to-be-released Handshaker. These do have a bit of blood and steamy sex scenes. They’re complemented by lighter works in a paranormal/horror vein; my zombie apocalyptic Stasis Center books and the ghostly goings on in the Spookies Mysteries. These are complemented by sci-fi fun shorts, the Space Truckers series, which finds BB and Gren in all sorts of trouble as they stumble around the galaxy delivering toilet rolls and a dog food.

I also turn out some non-fiction, but not much because, frankly, I find it tedious to write.

Then there’s Flatcap.

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Flatcap is my alter-ego. Flatcap is the man who dares to ask questions the rest of us don’t care about. Questions such as, why do less-fat crackers cost tuppence more? How do you nick the wheels off an English Electric Lightning Fighter? Why do people consider The X-Factor entertainment? Why is life with Her Indoors so trying?

On the following pages, you’ll find a list of all my titles, samples chapters from them, and some free reads. There are links to sites where you can buy the books, and other links that will carry you around the Web to those places where I can be found annoying others.

Enjoy!