Indie Author Connection Episode 2 GL Robinson Interview
Channel: Zak Lettercast
Date: 14/05/2021

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Author: GL Robinson
Genre: Regency Romance
Spotlight piece: The Lord and the Cat’s Meow 
[Intro: 00:00]
Hi there and welcome to another episode of Indie Author Connection! Today we are interviewing GL Robinson, who has been writing in the Regency Romances genre for just over two years and currently has 9 books out. GL why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself to the audience, tell us a little bit about you and your story!
It's a half sad, half weird story! I’m originally from England, as you can probably tell from my voice. My father worked in Africa when I was a girl and so my sister and I were in boarding school. It was a convent, but don’t think I was a nun! Far from it! I graduated in the 60’s! My sister and I used to read Regency Romances under the covers at night with a torch (flashlight in US!).  If you don’t know about Regencies, they are light-hearted romantic fiction set in the time when George III was declared unfit to rule, and his son, who would be George IV, ruled as Regent in his place. He was a real party animal and London was a wild place from about 1800 to 1830! Anyway, my sister and I were always very close, though she lived in the UK and I've been in the USA for the past 47 years.  She died unexpectedly in 2018 and the day after her funeral, I sat up in bed with a whole story in my head. I’m sure she was talking to me.  I started writing and haven't stopped.
Wow, that’s quite a story! What are you trying to do with your books? 
What am I trying to do? I’d like to tell you I have some serious purpose, but I don’t! I want to make people laugh a bit, have fun!  When you get to my age - I’ll be 75 next year - you don’t have time to be serious. Someone said “The world is too much with us” and I agree with that. I hope to provide a few minutes escape from reality. I used to be a French professor (did I tell you the nuns in our content were from a French order?) and I taught all sorts of serious stuff. My students used to love twentieth century angst-filled Existentialism.  That’s all okay when you’re young but honestly, I don't have time for it now. I want to die with a smile on my face, not a tear in my eye.
And the book you wanted to talk about today, that’s called The Lord and The Cat’s Meow right? And why don’t you tell us a little more about what your plot is, give us a little appetizer, kind of give us a taste of your world and your characters?
Okay. My next book is on pre-order on Amazon. It's live on 22 May.  It’s called The Lord and the Cat’s Meow. It’s basically a love quadrangle- not triangle- where two guys are engaged to one woman but love the other one. Horace the cat sorts it out. He hates the woman his owner, he’s the Lord in the title, is engaged to, and hisses at her whenever she comes near. He finally sees her off by ripping her ballgown!  He loves the other woman, called Nina (named for one of my granddaughters who LOVES animals), She’s a fierce animal rights activist. The historical background is the 1822 English law against inhumane treatment of animals. It was the first law in history addressing the rights of animals. Nina has been promoting the law,  but gets in trouble with the man who controls all the horse-drawn carriages in London. No spoilers, but needless to say, it all ends up happily, and it’s a lot of fun!
[GL ROBINSON READS FROM THE LORD AND THE CAT'S MEOW: 10:25] 
Okay, so that said, if there was one thing you could tell your readers, what would it be?
[ROBINSON'S WORDS OF WISDOM AT: 42:47]
John Lennon said, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” So true!
And where can our audience find your work?
If you go to my website romancenovelsbyglrobinson.com, you can get a free short story, listen to the first chapter of all my novels and a click on a link to all my books.
Or you can go straight to Amazon Books and type in GL Robinson, NO SPACE BETWEEN THE G AND THE L!