Gary D. Robson

Gary Robson is an author and former owner of a bookstore in the booming metropolis of Red Lodge, Montana, population 2,300. He has written thirty books, a half-dozen tech manuals, entries for two dictionaries, stories for anthologies, and hundreds of magazine, newspaper, and web articles (and that’s not counting blog posts!).

He started out in the technology world and became a vocal advocate of closed captioning on television for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. In his endless quest to figure out what he’s going to be when he grows up, he has been granted three patents, teamed up with family members to start an electronics business and a software business, run a small newspaper and a bookstore, taught computer science, written 20 books about poop, raised some cattle, done a little standup comedy, put on seminars all over the country, given a TEDx talk, and competed in rodeos.

Gary is a strong believer in independent bookstores, and urges people to use BookShop.org for their online book shopping. It is a nonprofit that supports local bookstores, and when you follow author links, it directly supports the authors as well.

He’s currently writing full-time, and his family still owns Phoenix Pearl Tea, which started out in the back of his bookstore.

Luckily for him, Gary’s wife and kids are good at smiling tolerantly and putting up with him.

Author website: GaryDRobson.com