Author Bio
Robert Gill grew up as an Air Force brat. He went on to become a Stanford dropout and was convicted for growing pot in 1980. He enjoys pointing out that he was unwanted in two states during the time of his probation. The local sheriff told him to get out of the state of Alabama and his mother, who was working at the VA in Albuquerque at the time, promised to have him committed if he showed his face in New Mexico. She assured him she knew the doctors who would sign the papers. He spent several years in Mississippi making willow furniture before, his parole having ended, he returned to Alabama. He focused exclusively on his writing for a time, but eventually his wife grew tired of him sitting around in his boxers shifting his commas and she suggested it might be time he funded his own liquor habit. This led to 10 years of delivering newspapers to rack stands as an ‘independent contractor’ and a relentless volley of correspondence to the dock supervisors and the newspaper management detailing the rampant problems with the newspaper delivery system until he was eventually fired. While not autobiographical, his novels incorporate many of his experiences.
He still lives in Alabama, shifting his commas, with his long-suffering wife and their always disdainful clowder of rescue cats.
His writing is humorous, but dark, satirical social commentary.
It took only a few hours to decide on the message of EEE. And 43 years of incessant re-writing to decide how to say it. Evelyn Delivers the Paperboy was completed in a lightning fast 7 years.