Rob
Shelsky attended Southwestern College, University of
Victoria, and San Diego State University. The author
has lived in Australia, as well as Canada, and America, and
has traveled widely elsewhere, especially to England, and
Europe. Rob has written many articles on writing,
including, Medieval Hamlets, Villages, Towns, and Cities,
for The Internet Review of Science Fiction Magazine,
numerous articles for Alien Skin Magazine, and many for
other publications. England's Midnight Street
Magazine has now published the article, Brave New World --
SciFi as Message for Political and Social
Commentary.
The
short story, Soap Bubbles, was the author's first
published science fiction. Implosion came out two
years ago at Alien Skin Magazine. Gateway SF
Magazine published Let it be Forever. Rob
Shelsky placed four consecutive times in the L. Ron
Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest for 2003 and
2004. Since then, the author has had numerous stories
published, such as, This Narrow Isthmus -- Fifth
Dimension Magazine, Without Omens -- Aberrant Dreams
Magazine, Dance of the Butterflies -- Continuum Science
Fiction Magazine, These Cold Depths of Space -- Fables
Magazine, amongst many others.
Aberrant
Dreams Magazine has just accepted Bradbury
County for publication, and Jim Baen’s Universe
Magazine has accepted Dreamtime. Dark
Wisdom has accepted his Serpent Caravan.
Rob's time travel romance novel, Lost Echoes, is now
with Awestruck E-Books, due out in December,
2006. His time travel romance short story, Miss
Annabelle's Yankee, is due out in April of 2007 with
Uncial Press. Lodestar Quarterly has
just released his literary short story, Flowers in
February.
Currently,
the author is a resident columnist for Alien Skin
Magazine. Rob lives in North Carolina on ten
acres, enjoys contemplating ideas for new stories while
sipping a glass of wine, and watching red sunsets over the
Blue Mountains.
* (trans) "The fellow is either mad or he
is composing verses."