Robin Pilcher

That’s a bit of a gap!

January 6th, 2010

Okay, hands held up, I give in. I’m a hopeless blogger. I thought I’d be quite good at it, but then I realized I couldn’t keep coming up with something interesting to say, so I just stopped! But maybe it’s a good discipline, so I thought about making it a New Year’s resolution to just do one on a regular basis, even though it’ll probably just be a load of hogwash.

So apologies for being out of touch for SO long, and a very Happy New Year to everyone. We’ve been in Scotland for Christmas and the weather has been perfect – completely Christmas card-like. I even saw a robin strutting his stuff on the handle of a spade against a snowy backdrop, so you can’t get much more authentic than that.

This next book has been long in coming and I apologize for that, but the publishers gave it a huge lead time and there’s not much one can do about that. Anyway, it’s due out in the UK in April, under the name A MATTER OF TRUST, and then a month later in the USA, under the name THE LONG WAY HOME. So don’t go ordering a copy of each off Amazon, thinking I’ve been splurging them out at breakneck speed!

Okay, I’m back. I haven’t gone overboard, AWOL or been sectioned. I’ll try to keep this going a bit more regularly.

Have a good 2010.

“Robin Pilcher is popular novelist Rosamunde Pilcher’s oldest son, and living proof that talent does run in families…..with his Scottish sensibility and captivating wordplay, Pilcher is able to craft a fine and fulfilling novel.” (Booklist)

“If An Ocean Apart is any indication of Robin Pilcher’s works, then it is only a matter of time before the author becomes as well-known as his mother.” (Amazon.co.uk.)

“My family was brought up with the feelgood factor, so that’s what I write about. Real people and believable situations. My characters may be criticized by some as being stereotypical, but quite honestly, I take that as a compliment. One can associate with them.” (Robin Pilcher)