Robinne is an entomologist and educator by training, but she has never been able to control her writing habit. She has been publishing her writing since the 1970s, and has been known to answer entomology exam questions in verse. Unlike her exam answers, which were met with awkward silence by her Very Serious Professors, her short stories have won multiple awards.
Her fantasy books for children and young adults include her four-book Dragon Defence League series, an epic stone-age fantasy, and a story featuring a cockroach as a main character.
Although she is only five-foot-two-and-three-quarters, and no one has ever seen fit to give her the benefit of the doubt for that last quarter-inch, her size doesn’t stop her from climbing mountains on the weekends in search of dragons.
She writes and blogs from her office in rural New Zealand, ably assisted by an evil cat that makes dragons look like nice safe pets.
Visit her at robinneweiss.com for information about all her books and stories.
“The Dragon Slayer’s Son began with a writing prompt given to me by my husband in the form of the letter that kicks off Nathan’s adventures in the book.
I love sharing stories. To be able to share them with people all over the world—people I’ve never met—is fantastic.”