I live in the UK, in Liverpool. I've been a schoolteacher, college lecturer, secretary and journalist. I now write fantasy novels, and I offer an editing service to publishers.

I have an M.A. in Modern Languages from Oxford University and an M.Phil. research degree in English Literature from Liverpool University. My research thesis traced the influence of painting on the writings of Wilkie Collins. I'm interested in nineteenth-century art, and feature paintings in the plots of my novels. Please visit my website, www.robinawilliams.com, to read my article "Paintings as Inspiration".

Robina Williams' Jerome and the Seraph has just been released in paperback by US small press publisher Twilight Times Books. Jerome and the Seraph is the first book in a fantasy series about a quantum cat based on Schrödinger's dead and not-dead cat. Brother Jerome thought his pet cat was called Leo; when he meets up with him again in the afterworld he finds his companion's real name is Quantum — Quant for short. With Quant at his side, Jerome finds himself in a strange new world — or should that be 'old' world? As crusty, curmudgeonly Father Egbert had suspected, the Greek gods never went away: they just went someplace else. Jerome finds the classical and Christian worlds co-existing happily, with both worshipping the great Lord of All Creation. Jerome has problems with this, and finds himself mistaking the Hound of Heaven for one of Hecate's dogs. Meantime, back at the friary, the Guardian, Father Fidelis, has problems of his own, with the arrival of an unwelcome visitor from the past…

Robina Williams
A stray cat visiting me in my old stone cottage on a Welsh hillside gave me the idea for my novel Jerome and the Seraph. The stray became my quantum cat, Quant. A nearby monastery gave me the setting for my novel. I created a fictional friary and peopled it with friars both present and past -- for, as Brother Jerome discovers following his unfortunate accident in the cemetery, the Order has a thriving beyond-the-grave branch. Jerome finds much to surprise him in the afterworld. His pet cat surprises him most of all, for he turns out to be a quantum cat, equally at home among the living and the dead. Or are they dead? Jerome begins to wonder about the nature of time, especially after hearing the great god Pan playing his haunting music in his sacred grove, and seeing a couple of centaurs gallop past. In Angelos a rockfall in the Minotaur's labyrinth sets off a quantum leap. The Minotaur finds himself in a garden shed in the twenty-first century, and Jerome finds himself in a maze of corridors in the "old" world, although, with "the time thing", it isn't the old world any more. Meantime, in the friary, the Guardian, Father Aidan, is having a crisis of faith, and his friars are suffering. Until one day he sees the divine light shining for him once more, and we see the cat in his true form -- a seraph, a divine envoy, the angelos of the title.

Twilight Times Books
Twilight Times Books has recently published Angelos, my second fantasy novel about the adventures of Brother Jerome and his quantum cat. We meet the Minotaur, who's been catapulted into a quantum leap, the Sibyl of Cumae, who's high on ethylene gas escaping from the fissure in the floor of her cave, and a Father Guardian who's lost his faith. Angelos also features Saints Jerome, Antony of Egypt and Paul the Hermit, together with a centaur, a satyr, a lion or two, and a seraph.

Editing Services
I offer an editing service to publishers. Contact me for details at robinawilliams@hotmail.com

I am currently writing a third fantasy novel.