Many years later it was Robin’s husband who encouraged her gift for storytelling. He urged her to attend a writers’ conference and take classes. Those first steps led to the publication of devotions, articles, interviews and 15 children’s books.

Robin’s writing career took a turn on a camping trip with their church youth group. She was concerned when she saw what the 13-year-old girls were reading in their tent. They challenged her saying, “If you don’t want us to read these books then you should write novels for us. We’ll even tell you what to write. How hard could that be?”

For over two years Robin carved out time to write by getting up at 3am, three days a week. Each week she would read the finished pages to the girls, and they would send her home to write and rewrite some more. After ten rejections Robin’s first novel about Christy Miller was accepted for publication.

Robin’s great delight is that her books and movies are doing exactly what she always hoped to do – travel around the world and tell people about God’s love. She is doing the same and has spoken at events in the US and Canada as well as in South America, Africa and Europe.

Robin and her husband have two grown children and four grandchildren. They live in California where she writes in rhythm with her life verse:

“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the LORD Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.” Acts 20:24