Robert Fate's Bio
ROBERT FATE is my pen name. The name on my birth certificate is Robert Fate Bealmear. I'm a Marine Corps veteran who lived in Paris, studied at the Sorbonne, and can mangle the French language with the best of them. I worked as an oilfield rough neck on a Texaco rig in Northeastern Oklahoma and a TV cameraman in Oklahoma City, jobs not as dissimilar as you might think. I was a fashion model in New York City for a few years to earn a living while I co-authored a stage play with my buddy Don Chastain. We never sold it. I was a project manager and later a sales exec in Las Vegas after working as a chef in a Los Angeles restaurant, where Gourmet Magazine asked for my Gingerbread recipe - actually, it was my grandmother's recipe. Along the way, I owned a company that airbrushed flowers on silk for the garment industry, and then I wrote scripts for the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. With the support and encouragement of Bruce Cook, a good friend, I produced an independent feature film. As a Hollywood special effects technician, I won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement.
I live in a hillside house above Silver Lake in Los Angeles with Fern, a yoga enthusiast and ceramic artist, and my wife since 1975. Our fabulous daughter Jenny is a senior at USC and was on the Dean's List last semester. We have a big dog, three small cats, and a turtle named Pharrell.
The most recent Baby Shark (Jugglers at the Border) is in bookstores October 2009. I am presently writing book number five, a stand-alone entitled Kill The Gigolo. It is a departure from the Baby Shark series. It is a contemporary, third person noir with a male protagonist. Kill The Gigolo will be in bookstores September 2010.
I am a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, and the Los Angeles and National chapters of Sisters in Crime.
Contact me at robert-fate@sbcglobal.net. Many do, and I always answer.
PRAISE FOR A PAGE-TURNER
"This book was so good, I quite literally stayed up WAY past my normal bedtime to finish it."
"I kept on reading, and reading and reading, and was sorry when it came to an end."
"I read it all in a day. I could not put it down."
"I found I could hardly leave the volume until I'd read it through."
"BABY SHARK reels you in and keeps you in its jaws. A grabber from page two with a killer ending."
"Baby Shark is a full out run to the end."
"Top notch, the story won't let you stop reading."
"I decided to just read the first few pages. That was yesterday morning, and today I'm reviewing the book."
"I loved this book and could not put it down until I finished it."