Bio of Robina Williams:

I live in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. I have an M.A. in Modern Languages from Oxford University and an M.Phil. in English Literature from Liverpool University. My research thesis traced the influence of painting on the writings of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. I am interested in nineteenth-century art, and feature paintings in the plots of my stories. I am currently writing a fantasy series “The Quantum Cat.” Jerome and the Seraph was published in a print edition by Twilight Times Books in 2004, and the sequel, Angelos, will be out as a paperback in fall 2005; Angelos is currently available as an ebook on Fictionwise. On my web site www.robinawilliams.com are two articles about the paintings mentioned in these books: Paintings as Inspiration and The Art Gallery in Angelos (http://www.robinawilliams.com/inspirations.html and http://www.robinawilliams.com/Angelos_ArtGallery.html ). I am now writing the third book in the series and hope to finish it shortly. I am interested in the concept of simultaneous, rather than linear, time, and in my Quantum Cat books (the idea for which came from Erwin Schrödinger’s hypothetical Cat that was both dead and alive at the same time) I explore the idea that maybe the past isn’t over and done with, and that maybe the classical gods never went away.

I have been a schoolteacher, college lecturer, secretary and features journalist.

Readers are welcome to get in touch with me at robina@robinawilliams.com