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About Me

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Hi. This is me.

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I hated writing growing up. Or at least I thought I hated writing. After I started journaling in high school, I realized it wasn’t writing that I didn’t like. I just didn’t like being told what I had to write. It took me several more years to discover that writing was my passion, but I didn’t write my first novel until after I was thirty.

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Fast forward to today: I now have three published books (Art of Espionage series) and many more to come in the next year!

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When I’m not writing, I lead a clandestine life as a wife and mother of six. Don't tell anyone, but I’m an undercover marathoner, math tutor, karateka, photographer, singer, seamstress, baker, swimmer, and household appliance repairman.

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Want to know more about me? Feel free to stalk me online @robinkingauthor. I'm an open book (pun intended!). My social media accounts are currently filled with with personal tidbits, including stuff about my books, my family, my blunders, and everything in between. 

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The Longwinded Version

(really, just turn back now, this is long)

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Robin M. King was born in Spokane, Washington on November 8th. The first eight years of her life, she lived on a fourteen-acre farm in Deer Park, Washington where she explored the nearby forest and enjoyed watching the wheat fields around her home as it was harvested every year. She often ate raspberries and sugar snap peas straight from her family’s garden. Then, when she was nine years old, her father got a job offer in a city three hours away. She moved to East Wenatchee, Washington with her parents, six brothers (another brother would join later), and one sister. 

 

Entering fourth grade in a new city was a scary experience, but, by then, Robin had already discovered books and they helped her with the transition. While she was still making new friends in a new city, she spent time with her old fictional friends in The Babysitters Club, Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, and more. Luckily, East Wenatchee easily became a part of Robin’s heart. She loved school, excelled in her studies, and aspired to be a star on the basketball court, soccer field, swimming pool, diving board, and volleyball court. Though she was never the best at any sport, she enjoyed being a part of them just as much as reading and played all throughout her youth and into college. 

 

Singing was also a huge part of her life. From singing in church each Sunday to her first solo debut in front of a five-hundred-person audience in sixth grade, Robin loved to sing. She joined every choir that would take her, tried out for every solo and duet, and participated in musicals. She received superior ratings at her State Solo Competition four years in a row and enjoyed taking voice lessons. She even sang at her high school graduation from Eastmont High School after she spoke as a valedictorian.

 

Writing was always in the background from early on in Robin’s life, but she felt like she was put in a box by teachers who often made her feel forced to write about things she didn’t care about at the time. She hated writing for that reason, even though one of the first books she wrote in fifth grade got her invited to a state writing workshop. She secretly wrote poems until her mom caught wind of it and helped her enter some into a publishing contest. A few of those poems were published in a book of poems while in junior high. But, again, Robin never felt like a writer. She continued to write poems no one would ever read. In high school, she started journaling as an outlet as well as a way to preserve memories. Her Doogie Howser-style journaling was all typed via her old school desktop computer, printed out, and placed in her journal. She savored these moments of writing, not realizing until nearly fifteen years later that they were the practice grounds of writing from the first person perspective.

 

After graduating high school, Robin attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After a year or two of hovering between being a pediatrician, nurse, or math teacher, Robin decided she didn’t want to be put in a box again (too many interests!) and went with elementary education. She loved kids, after all, and then she didn’t have to focus on just one subject. She could teach them all! 

 

That year of decisions was filled with many more, including falling in love and choosing to get married, spending a term on a study abroad trip to Mexico to perfect her Spanish, and discovering she loved running. A few years later, she graduated from BYU with enough credits for a master’s degree (hello too many interests, my old friend). She taught third grade in a whirlwind year while participating in a musical at Hale Center Theater and worked for the Copyright & Licensing Office at BYU. Oh, and she was pregnant with her first baby. 

 

She decided to put teaching on hold while she took care of her son. Reading continued to be a favorite pastime as well as journaling. It was soon after her second son was born and her little family moved to Lehi, Utah, that Robin had this crazy idea: I wonder if I could be a CIA agent. She spoke two languages, was a hard worker, could pretend she could do anything (too many interests . . .), and was good under pressure. Although she thought about this almost jokingly, she checked online and discovered a sad truth. She had just missed the age deadline by a month. In true Robin fashion, she decided if she couldn’t be an agent, maybe she could write a book about one. Unfortunately, with her busy life as a mom of two boys, she decided her life was best spent helping to earn money for her family. She wrote articles for a scrapbooking magazine and used her teaching degree to tutor in math, science, history, English, and Spanish. 

 

Tutoring ended up being a blessing in disguise because she had a student who struggled to read. The student was a young teen and it was hard to find a book that was fun to read, but still written on her level. The spy book idea came back to Robin’s mind. Maybe she could write a book that her student would enjoy. It could have all the adventure and romance as well as be a quick and easy read. That’s when Remembrandt was born (Remember + Rembrandt = Remembrandt). In the wee hours of the morning, when her kids took naps (she now had three boys), she would sneak in writing time to create her art-inspired spy novel. She also joined a writing group. One truth became very clear once she met with her group, and ended up crying afterwards. She had a lot to learn. 

 

Fast forward another year, after several revisions, Remembrandt was done. She sent out some query letters to agents, and then decided to start writing a contemporary fantasy series (that will never see the light of day) while she waited for a reply. Though she had several positive responses, nothing came of it. When she received an email nearly a year later that a publisher was interested in Remembrandt, she decided to take them up on their offer. Over the next three years Remembrandt, Van Gogh Gone, and Memory of Monet were released. 

 

The ups and downs of publishing have been sprinkled in with lots of joys. Robin had three more kids—all girls, ran 16 marathons, continued to help students as a private tutor, became a surrogate mother, and wrote more books. To date, she has completed ten books, several of which will be published in the coming year. She still lives near the Rocky Mountains with her husband and kids. When she's not working, you can find her doing home improvement projects or watching Turkish dramas.

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If you've read this far, you are now my favorite person. Seriously. If we aren't friends already, message me on social media.

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