Robert Eggleton is a retired children's psychotherapist and the creator of Lacy Dawn Adventures, a series of award winning stories written to raise revenue to prevent child abuse.
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Robert Eggleton has served as a children's advocate in an impoverished state for over forty years. He is best known for his investigative reports about children’s programs, most of which were published by the West Virginia Supreme Court, and which also included publication of models of serving disadvantaged and homeless children in the community instead of in large institutions, research into foster care drift involving children bouncing from one home to the next -- never finding a permanent loving family, and statistical reports on the occurrence and correlates of child abuse and delinquency.
Today, he is a retired children's psychotherapist from the mental health center in Charleston, West Virginia, where he specialized in helping victims cope with and overcome physical and sexual abuse, and other mental health concerns. Rarity from the Hollow is his debut novel and its release followed and preceded publication of short Lacy Dawn Adventures in magazines. Half of Author proceeds are donated to a child abuse prevention program operated by Children’s Home Society of West Virginia. http://www.childhswv.org/
Robert continues to write fiction with new adventures based on a protagonist that is a composite character of children that he met when delivering group therapy services. The overall theme of his stories remains victimization to empowerment.
Birth Place
Charleston, WV USA
Accomplishments
Rarity from the Hollow was nominated by The Missouri Review for the Noble (not Nobel) prize in 1996 as one of the top ten releases for that year.
On November 20, 2015, it was awarded a Gold Medal by Awesome Indies. http://awesomeindies.net/ai-approved-review-of-rarity-from-the-holly-by-robert-eggleton/
On December 28,2015, a prominent Bulgarian book critic named Rarity from the Hollow as one of the best of five books read in 2015. http://codices.info/2015/12/top-5-for-2015-ventsi/
On January 20, 2016, Rarity from the Hollow was awarded a second Gold Medal by Readers' Favorite. Excerpt:
“…Full of cranky characters and crazy situations, Rarity From the Hollow sneaks up you and, before you know it, you are either laughing like crazy or crying in despair, but the one thing you won’t be is unmoved… Robert Eggleton is a brilliant writer whose work is better read on several levels. I appreciated this story on all of them.”
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