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Robin Riopelle

Goodreads Author

Born

in Ottawa, Canada

Website

http://www.robinriopelle.com

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Robin_Riopelle

Genre

Paranormal, Contemporary, Horror

Member Since

March 2012

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https://www.goodreads.com/robinriopelle

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I am a writer of scary novels (Dead Roads forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing), although I am, myself, scared of ghosts, demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and sasquatches. And any book about them.

However, I love to read broadly and especially like literary non-fiction (think John Valliant and Erik Larson), canlit (hello Elizabeth Hay!), and "adventure stories for boys" which might include Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy, God help us all. I have been known to Hoover up certain fantasy writers: Guy Gavriel Kay and Charles de Lint (cancon again?)

I am usually working in the museum field, where I get to indulge my love for old things and inventing new ways to have fun with them. I am also an illustrator of kids picture boo ...more

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Robin Riopelle's Blog

In Which I’m Scared of Imposters

A couple of years ago, starting out my fitfully tended blog, I haphazardly decided to frame it around the notion of “things I’m scared of”. Frankly, I’m scared of a startling number of things—some of which are clearly well-thought-out (hello, bears) and some are a bit tongue-in-cheek (William Shatner). The soil, it seemed, was fertile. Ripe for sowing flung seed.

Fear is a useful emotion, in that i