Robert Fishell

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Robert Fishell is the author of Joshua: A Novel and The Adventures Of Spike Bike. He is an Ohio Native who moved to Illinois in 1977 where he now lives with his family. He has degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, and secondary education. He has worked as an engineer, programmer, math teacher, sheet metal worker, shipping clerk, and printer's devil. He retired in 2014 and now devotes most of his time to his family. ...more

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Around a year ago, I watched a documentary about Operation Barbarossa, the savage invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. As they had done in Poland and throughout western and central Europe, the Wehrmacht swept across Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, and western Russia in the summer and fall of 1941. In their wake, they left a

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“Any story begins with one or more characters and a setting in which to place them. I might have an idea at the outset of how the story will come out, but in every instance, the characters take on a life of their own, living their own stories while I just write them down as they unfold.”
Robert Fishell, Joshua

“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Any story begins with one or more characters and a setting in which to place them. I might have an idea at the outset of how the story will come out, but in every instance, the characters take on a life of their own, living their own stories while I just write them down as they unfold.”
Robert Fishell, Joshua

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