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B. Robert Conklin

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Youngstown, Ohio, The United States
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A native of Youngstown, Ohio, B. Robert Conklin (he, him, his) lives, writes, and works, not necessarily in this order, in Columbus, where he and his spouse nurture the ambitions of their three Gen-Z kids, who seem determined to take less-traveled paths of their own. As an outgrowth of personal support of loved ones, he is an advocate for trans rights, eating-disorder recovery, and autism awareness.

His stories have appeared in Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, THAT Literary Magazine, and Kestrel, as well as various ezines. He has also co-authored a college composition textbook to help emerging writers connect with their world. His first two novels placed as back-to-back suspense-genre finalists in the National Indie Excellence® Awards. In a
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Death and the Poet by Fiona Forsyth
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What I most enjoyed about Fiona Forsyth’s sequel set in ancient Roman times is how her narration treats the main characters with a breezy, casual familiarity so that you feel a down-to-earth connection with the historical figure of the poet Ovid and ...more
" Congratulations on your debut historical novel, Kate! It sounds like a an amazing story. I'm sure a lot of research went into it. I imagine it takes a ...more "
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"The Warsaw Messenger: A Historical WW2 Spy Thriller inspired by true events in Nazi occupied Poland Kate Duprez On 10 December 2025 my life changed. I look the same, eat the same food, have the same friends, live in the same town.....but I don..." Read more of this blog post »
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Dark Matter: A Novel
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I enjoyed this one much better than I thought I would. But then anything would be better than the last book I read about Japanese librarians who follow a plot structure of intaking, sorting, cataloging, shelving, and reaching a climax of inventorying ...more
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This was a rather torturous book to read, mainly because it involves so much torture, both physical and psychological, especially in the second half. As others have noted, the novel is divided into two distinct parts, separated by four completely bla ...more
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