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Rob Grimes

Goodreads Author

Born

in Derby, The United Kingdom

Website

http://TheChimpingDandy.blogspot.com

Twitter

Chimping_Dandy

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Piers Anthony, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett

Member Since

June 2011

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So, who is Rob Grimes and why has he suddenly decided that he's an author?

Good question... In fairness though, it's not that I've just decided, it's that I've only just realised. I mean, I've been writing for years; mostly factual stuff, technical manuals and instructions and things like that.

Then I started to post sarcastic, wordy, and lengthy updates on Facebook that turned into The Chimping Dandy Blog, which in turn evolved into 'Mumblings of an Irate Pangolin' in the style of one of those hateful anthologies that newspaper columnists produce just before Christmas.

Which itself spawned the first volume of the Windspider Chronicles 'Child of Air', which will be published towards the end of 2015 - But it's great, there are airships and alie ...more

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Average rating: 4.5 · 24 ratings · 6 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Mumblings of an Irate Pangolin (The Collected Chimping Dandy Book 1) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mumblings of an Irate Pangolin it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pangolin Yodels (The Collected Chimping Dandy, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The James Josiah Flash Project. Volume 2. by James Josiah (Goodreads Author), Rob Grimes (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pangolin Yodels (The Collected Chimping Dandy Book 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Children's Pangolin Primer: Child-friendly versions of the Collected Chimping Dandy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Control by Kyle Turton, Rob Grimes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Cooney (Cover Design) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tea with Death and other stories by Neil Sehmbhy, James Josiah (Goodreads Author), Rob Grimes (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forever girl and other stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My new book is just so pretty

Hello again everyone,

Sorry I've not posted for a long time... If only more of you would buy my books I wouldn't have to have a day-job, then I'd write more often and we'd all be winners!

Thought you might like to know that my new book Child of Air is currently being proofread and due to be hitting the final edit any day now. This means that it will certainly be available for all of your Christmas Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 24, 2015 03:48 • Tags: airship, alien, new, novel, pirate, steampunk

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“I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away from his last fight, determined to make it outside before I broke into a million pieces, I almost made it too.”
― Rob Grimes

tags: autobiographical, death-of-a-loved-one

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