I was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, but moved to the Moweaqua area around 1991. I like small towns and rural settings, as does my wife of twenty-eight years, Barbara. We have two grown children, John and Anna to whom I dedicated my first book, The First Suitor. I started writing about fifteen years ago as a diversion from my regular job as an attorney. At that time I had been practicing law in Central Illinois for about ten years and was looking for another avenue to exercise my writing and organizational skills. Now after almost twenty-five years of practicing law I would like to write full time, but yet I find myself full time in the law and part time in writing. I enjoy telling stories and some would say that all lawyers are born fiction writers, because fiction is all they write in the first place. I have to admit that there is some truth to that. 

I have five books published with Wings ePress, Inc., and more manuscripts in the works. Many of my fellow attorneys ask me when I'm going to quit the law and go to writing full time. I tell them, only in half jest, that I will retire when someone offers me a lucrative movie contract on one of my books.

Recently I have retired from the private practice of law and now work for the United States Department of Justice. I have now relocated to Louisville, Kentucky.

I try to draw on my experiences in the practice of law and my life experiences in general to give realism to my stories and characters. In the 1970s I served in the U.S. Army as a Military Policeman and in the late '80s, I was a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, Army National Guard. I have been to Germany, Holland and many of the United States and I like to work those settings into my stories. I write romance into almost every book, but it isn't always the main theme and it is never explicit or vulgar. If that is what you are looking for you will have to go somewhere else. I rarely, if ever, use a swear word in any of my stories.

I am foremost and always an entertainer and that is why I write fiction, but I try to make it real and believable as well as entertaining.

Thanks for visiting,

Robert James Allison