About
The Author
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Robert
Scott Leyse
was born in San Francisco, grew up in various locales about America,
lived in Paris for a spell, and now resides on Manhattan's Upper
East Side. Upon arrival in Manhattan he lived in several East Village
dumps and worked as a New York cab driver on the night shift, with
the aim of atoning for a sheltered upbringing and having adventures
the likes of which he'd never had before and he wasn't disappointed;
subsequently he acquired over a dozen years of experience in the
legal field, where he was pleasantly surprised to find that additional
adventures, of the office politics and shenanigans variety, were
to be had; presently he works in the advertising field, where he's
not looking for any special adventures, having decided to keep work
separate from fun and games and have secrets that are easier to
keep. He skis in Sun Valley, Idaho, surfs with board and body in
southern California and Puerto Rico, once took a belly dance class
in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the most incandescent yoga class he’s
ever had was on a stand-up paddle board in Condado Lagoon during
a furious rainstorm. He eats fish heads and insects and drinks blood,
but can’t be paid to eat potato chips or cake.
His
three novels are: Liaisons for Laughs: Angie & Ella’s
Summer of Delirium (July, 2009), Self-Murder (April,
2010), and Attraction and Repulsion (June, 2011). His two
novellas are Penelope Prim and Tallulah Tempest
(both February, 2015). The latter was originally intended to be
a send-up of volatile relationships but turned out to be an appreciation
and celebration of them instead: sometimes a tale decides where
it wishes to go, the author be damned. Forthcoming are collections
of short stories, epigrams, and more novellas.
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