Robin’s Blue is a page-turning epic set against the disco 70’s through the Reagan-era 80’s, when divorce was the norm and casual sex and recreational drugs were ubiquitous. Robin Daniels, a runaway from a violent and emotionally desolate upper middle-class home, repeatedly navigates her world without guidance. After a failed marriage, she discounts love as an option and moves through a series of jobs and men. A futile attempt to live as a kept woman compels her to become a high-class call girl. She searches unsuccessfully through the resulting transient experiences and escalating drug use for the one lesson that will resolve her omnipresent question of purpose.
Before AIDS and addiction became household words, Robin’s Blue speaks to a generation that basically raised itself. Robin’s journey takes her from suburban Philadelphia to Miami to the South of France and ultimately to New York City where she is obliged to make peace with the girl inside she left dormant at sixteen.
Targeted Age Group:
21 and over
How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I’m very deeply connected to the visual. Place and emotion. I want the reader to experience what the characters do. I don’t think it’s different from many other writers but it’s what you’ll get when you read my work.
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Write. Re-write. Get feedback. One page at a time.
Author Bio:
Pam Alster is a former television writer and studied Master Fiction Writing at UCLA. She is a contributing blogger to 85broads.com and BlogHer.com. She lives in LA with her patient husband, old-soul daughter and two well-fed mutts. Robin’s Blue is her first novel.
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I grew up and came of age during the time of the book and felt it was a unique time in American history. Robin could have been any girl I knew during that time. We were the generation of divorce, the sexual revolution, the drugs were rampant and we were all wholly unsupervised while trying to find our place. I set out to depict a realistic slice of the era.
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