Robb Skidmore writes stories that entertain and inspire. His upmarket fiction (combines the best of commercial and literary) takes a love of language and uses it to create richly original characters and intense, moving plots. If you enjoy writers like Nick Hornby, Suzanne Collins, Michael Chabon, Chuck Palahniuk, Alice Sebold, or Audrey Niffenegger then you might want to check out Robb Skidmore’s work.
He grew up in Charleston, S.C. His undergraduate and postgraduate studies were completed at Emory University. He has traveled to many far flung parts of the globe and once spent a year camping in national parks and traveling across America. His short stories have appeared in New Orleans Review, New Millennium Writings, South Carolina Review, Oasis, and Twelve Stories. His non-fiction has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His ebook micro-novella, THE SURFER, can be found on Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble. He lives with his wife and cat in Atlanta. He is also an artist, music lover, and traveler.
In early 2012 TMiK Press will release his debut novel, THE PURSUIT OF COOL. A novel that uniquely captures the 1980s, it tells the story of Lance Rally and his turbulent college years. He comes from a super-achieving family and is intent on being a big success. But he is also an inept, hopeless romantic, obsessed with pop culture, and prone to distraction. Friendships with a punk rocker and a subversive scholar challenge his worldview, and relationships with a beautiful psych major and a feisty goth girl shape and change him. This coming-of-age journey is a funny and emotional ride through album covers, dance techniques, all-nighter revelations, and corporate internships gone bad. The story comes alive with music and movies which give Lance solace as he questions beliefs and his heart gets crushed. He tries to capture that illusive quality, that magic of youth, the essence that is “cool.”
You may contact him at: robbskidmore98@bellsouth.net
If you wish to read of Robb’s childhood discovery of the Beatles and albino hippies go here; or his intoxicated post-graduate first trip abroad go here; or his daring circumnavigational drive around an island in Thailand go here; or a peculiar apartment neighbor he once had go here; or dining in Phuket as a spectator sport go here; or his musical experience of getting an MRI go here; or the results of his eBook Jacket Selection Poll for The Surfer go here.; or his thoughts about Kurt Cobain, Nevermind, and sports cars go here.
