Award-winning newspaper/magazine writer/editor 35 years. Author of three novels, one ghost-written book, one book of short stories. Blogger: book topics, mechanics of writing, sociopolitics, alternative health.
Bob (Robert) Brink was born on the shores of Lake Michigan in Muskegon, Mich., and was so precocious that he soon learned to walk on water (subject of his next novel, a fantasy -- kidding, kidding). He relocated with his parents at age 6 to their home state of Iowa, growing up around Des Moines and moving to a small farm at age 14, where he learned to pick corn, considerably less exciting than an aquatic ambulatory adventure. After a torturous coming-of-age, he embarked on a newspaper career that took him to Joliet, Ill., Chicago, Milwaukee, Tampa and West Palm Beach, in which vicinity he has lived for a number of years. He garnered several writing awards, and the magazine where he was copy chief and feature writer won an award for Best Written Magazine in Florida. In early middle age, Brink learned to play clarinet and tenor saxophone, and performed many years in a symphonic winds band while also doing a few big band gigs. He learned ballroom dancing and is a health enthusiast, blogging on alternative health care along with grammar, socio-politics, and his and other's authorial activities. While doing freelance writing and editing, he became an author, ghost-writing a book, turning out a book of short stories, and completing three novels. The latest, BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, is a legal thriller about a racist, miserly attorney pressured into defending a black man from a false police charge of resisting arrest. After discovering incriminating information about the officers, his main challenge becomes keeping himself and his client alive. Published by TouchPoint Press, the book's release date is May 4, 2020. His previous novel, MURDER IN PALM BEACH: THE HOMICIDE THAT NEVER DIED, is a roman à clef about a real, highly sensational murder that occurred in 1976. In early 2020, the six children of the victim reversed themselves and petitioned the governor of Florida for a full pardon for the karate expert who spent 15 years in prison, convinced he was innocent.
Birth Place: Muskegon, MI United States
Accomplishments: While at the Herald-News in Joliet, Ill., he lived two weeks in shabby hotels for a story on fire hazards that won an Illinois newspaper award. His investigation of a murder in Milwaukee forced a coroner's inquest. In Tampa, Brink's story on bait-and-switch advertising by appliance dealers resulted in a penalty against them. He exposed an embezzler at a theater company for the Palm Beach Post. His work as copy chief won an award of top-written magazine in the state for Palm Beach Illustrated, where he also won three writing awards.
Books
Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink An alcoholic, miserly attorney reluctantly defends a black man from a false resisting arrest charge. He then discovers damaging information against the cops and two cronies, and embarks on a battle to keep himself and his client alive....
Breaking Out by Bob Brink A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of healing begins....
The Way It Was: Short Stories and Tall Tales by Bob Brink The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems....
Short Stories ( View all 2 stories ) Calling It Curtains by Bob Brink Two brothers pass a haunted house on their mile-long trek from grade school to their countrified home, and are frightened out of their wits after gathering the courage to walk onto the house's porch. ... THE END OF THE ROPE by Bob Brink In the early part of the 20th century, a farmer's wife kills herself by plunging headfirst down a well. A neighbor boy whose mother died a few years before witnesses the woman's retrieval by a diver, ...
His novel Blood on Their Hands is a legal thriller that combines themes from two of his favorite movies, My Cousin Vinnie and Gran Torino. Published by TouchPoint Press, it was due for official release May 4, 2020. At various times in Brink's life, he dabbled in short-story writing, and put together a compilation of the stories, titled THE WAY IT WAS: Short Stories and Tall Tales. He took up clarinet and saxophone as an adult, and played many years in a symphonic band. He loves jazz and classical music. A health buff, he follows a disciplined exercise regimen of sprints, squats, dumbbell curls and abs exercises.
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Robert Brink 2311 Brisbane St. Apt 29 Clearwater
FL
33763
United States
