Robert Appleton's Author Website

A native of Bolton, England, I write science fiction and paranormal mysteries. 2009 is my second year in the rollercoaster world of e-publishing (hint: don't look down, except when upside down).  In my previous lives, I served (smuggled) popcorn in a cinema, mis-filed much as a public servant, and walked away with a Film Studies degree. I've visited America, Greece, Spain, Scotland and other alien planets. To date, my publishers include Samhain Publishing, Eternal Press, Lyrical Press, Club Lighthouse Publishing, Uncial Press, and Damnation Books. My ambition is to have an ambition. So far, it's all with the tide, baby.

Visit my Blog at    robertbappleton.blogspot.com

In addition to writing, I enjoy sucking at soccer (okay, okay, I'm actually not too bad), kayaking, and especially going to the cinema. Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone are the film gods I pray to. Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Foster rock the acting world. On TV, The West Wing is light years ahead of pretty much everything else, but I'm also a huge fan of Lost, House, Boston Legal, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: TNG, Firefly, and Deadwood.

My favourite writers include H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Patrick O'Brian, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Richard Matheson, Ian Fleming, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and God. More recent books I've enjoyed include The Road (Cormac McCarthy) and The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold).

I always enjoy hearing from my intrepid readers. Feel free to contact me on sub-space frequency at  sevenmercury7@aol.com

(First) My older brother Richard, me (that's not a skirt!), and my younger sister Christina audition for Water Gladiators--Lake Coniston. (Second) I rest/collapse/turn to stone, half way up a mountain called the Old Man of Coniston.