Spokane Authors & Self-Publishers
– Member Biography –

Dan Robison, PE, AE –C

Back in the middle of the last century, before SAT tests were used universally, Chelan High School offered a grade prediction standardized test. When the results came back it predicted I would do best in either journalism or music. I scoffed at the idea and went on to earn my degrees in civil and sanitary engineering. For the next 45 years I worked in air and water pollution control for the state and federal governments.

However, there was one incident as I left for college at Washington State University, the first year it held that name, 1959, that seemed to be the catalyst that helped me now as a published author. My parents paid for my undergraduate education. As I was getting ready to leave for school my mother said to me, “There is only one condition to our paying for your college education. You must write us a letter every week while you are at WSU.” I felt this was a small price to pay for the education I was going to receive so I sent a letter home every week for the six years I spent in Pullman, Washington.

Following graduate school I went off to Australia for two years to work on water pollution control down under. Having gotten into the habit, I continued to write home weekly. I still find it therapeutic to write to family even though my parents have long passed on.

This love of writing didn’t begin to surface in the form of books until I moved to Alaska in 1984. I begin to write a bit of poetry there after a divorce as a way to express my feelings. When I remarried, my wife encouraged me to write so I took a few classes at the University of Alaska and via correspondence school. I found I enjoyed writing and it seems to come easy for me.

To escape the long dark winters in Alaska we would take our annual permanent fund dividend checks and fly to Hawaii for 3-4 weeks. Exploring the Big Island and specifically the City of Refuge caused me to begin to think how logically it all fit together to form a story. This was the birth of Kimo’s Escape, my first attempt at writing a book. (Other than a romance novel written as a challenge by my wife and no I haven’t published it) With the completion of the first book two more came to mind for the series. These are complete and will be published in the near future.

A trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico and environs, in the early 90’s caused another book to begin forming in my mind resulting in Wind Seer. By the time it was complete the second in the series, Wind Talker, began forming. It is partially completed at this point in mid-2005.

With the publication of Wind Seer and Kimo’s Escape in early 2005 I am firmly hooked on writing and look forward to publishing many more fiction stories.

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