Robert K. Blechman graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in English Literature and earned an MBA in finance and a Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University. He has held senior technology management positions at such iconic institutions as Columbia University Medical Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, HarperCollins Publishers, Olympia & York Real Estate Management, and CBS News and teaches courses in communication and media studies at Fordham University.   The three books of The Twitstery (ie. Twitter Mystery) Twilogy depict the exploits of the world's only tweeting detective, unreliable narrator that he is. He tweets his experiences in real time, and the fact that he tells his story in tweets, that is 140 characters at a time, shapes his interpretation of the crimes he investigates. My influences are Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Sara Paretsky, among many, many others, not to mention many TV and movie detectives and of course, Mickey Spillane. At the same time, I reach back into classic literature to steal a little from Herman Melville, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe and Marcel Proust. Fortunately, the statute of limitations has run out on most of these authors, so I may be forgiven my own crimes.   I Tweet, Therefore I Am was preceded by national best selling Twitter novel Executive Severance, Book 1 of the Twitstery Twilogy (NeoPoiesis Press, 2011) which won The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction and by The Golden Parachute, (Kindle eBook, 2016).   Dr. Blechman continues to tweet at RKBs_Twitstery and discusses his Media Ecology musings and speculations at his blog, "A Model Media Ecologist" at www.robertkblechman.blogspot.com.    

Winner, 2012 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional work by The Media Ecology Association