Hello Friend, I wanted to let everyone know I have a limited number of signed First Editions of The Pursuit of Cool that are available for personalization. If you would like one for yourself, or would like to give one as a gift, then either reply to this email or use the Contact page on robbskidmore.com. […]
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Hello Friend, I’m super excited to announce that my latest book, Life and Death in Suburbia, has just been released. It’s available for purchase on Amazon either in Kindle format (pre-order with a release on Dec. 12) or as a paperback (immediate delivery!) It’s a short story collection, with stories I published previously mixed with […]
Hello Friends, Just a quick note to alert you to a special offer. From Sept. 9-13, my short novella, The Surfer, will be available for free on Kindle. It’s also available now on Kindle Unlimited. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s your chance: The Surfer is a novella of psychological suspense. Walter’s life falls […]
You have a vision, a story, a project in mind you want to write. It tantalizes inside your brain. The only way to test it is by writing. Let’s say you want to surf. You stand on the beach and watch the ocean as waves, big and menacing, or small, or promising in shape, crash […]
Last November I gave the Kindle Free Book promotion a whirl for three days and I reached No. 1 of the Top 100 free books in Literary Fiction. The Pursuit of Cool stayed No. 1 all three days. My deep and sincere apologies to Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte (I’m not worthy!). I […]
This interview originally appeared on the Literary Magic blog of Lee Libro. Please visit her website when you get a chance. I have reproduced the interview here in its entirety. Lee Libro: Robb Skidmore, a writer of short stories and novellas, recently released his first novel. The Pursuit of Cool, a coming of age novel set in the […]
When I started out writing The Pursuit of Cool years ago, I had a vague idea that someday I would finish it and then someday and somehow it would be released into the world. When I started writing seriously in the mid-nineties I knew that I wanted to write this novel. I don’t know how many […]
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