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Robert H. Tempest

Robert H. Tempest is married with three children, he was born and raised and still lives in Oxford. In 2005 he was made disabled from an accident at work and is now housebound and in a wheelchair.
He has taken that time at home, not to think of what has happened, but to continue with his writing.
He is a writer of different genres, but writes mainly horror. Within his writing he enjoy’s background research in not only the characters but locations (He spends time in areas his stories are set, to get a feel of the place) and subjects the characters are involved with (police work, medical, etc.).
He started writing, on a whim, just after the birth of his first son, with which he wrote a biography of his life for him when he was older.
With that completed he started his first story, Never Say Die, a thriller set in the West Country of U.K. With it being his first story, he didn’t know how to lay out the story, how long a story had to be, etc. When it was completed (he thought) he looked to see about getting it published and found out where he was going wrong, and that for a novel it was too short, so he put the story on the shelf and for the next couple of years it was collecting dust.
With his next story, Blood Moon, a horror story, set on the Norfolk Broads, he went in with his eyes open, knew how long it was supposed to be and how to layout the story, so he took his time to get it right and when he thought he had finished it, sent it out to agents, but it was getting nowhere, agents either didn’t like it, or wasn’t what they were looking for, but instead of giving up, like he did with his first story, he carried on, sending it to nearly every agent in the book. But still no one was interested.
While he was looking for an agent, he had other stories to write, so he next wrote a screenplay called Entombed, for actress Ingrid Pitt, who was looking for a twenty minute story for a trilogy she was planning to do. When he was nearly finished, her husband, Tony, contacted him to say there was a change of plans as the backers now wanted a full feature, so he thought about it and filled out the story and came up with extra story lines and when finished, sent it to her and was then told the backers had changed their minds and now wanted to go with the original idea and was left with a unwanted story, so he transformed the screenplay into novel format and again waited for agents reply’s.
Now after many years of wasting his time with agents and getting his stories touched up by a great editor, Roxane Christ, he even pulled down his first story Never Say Die, and brought it up to standard.
But still the agents didn’t want the stories and with encouragement from Roxane and his wife, he never gave up, and he then decided he wasn’t sitting around twiddling his thumbs waiting and decided to upload his stories to the website for people to read.

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