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H. Steven Robertson
coachrtoo@yahoo.com
www.ranchboybooks.com
www.jettyman.com
www.ocean-publishing.com
www.amazon.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
Writer's Block: The Florida Times-Union
Neptune Beach, FL USA

Artist Statement

H. Steven Robertson was born and raised in Florida, living in the various cities of Bradenton, Lake Wales, Sebring, Miami, and Jacksonville. He lives with his wife Kathy and his two daughters, Summer and Sunny, in Neptune Beach, Florida. As an adolescent, Mr. Robertson worked on a ranch and in the orange groves outside of Sebring for several years and graduated from Sebring High School. He attended Newberry College in South Carolina on a full football scholarship and graduated with a Liberal Arts degree in 1967. He received his Master's degree from the University of Florida in 1972, in Supervision and Administration.

For the past 37 years, Mr. Robertson has worked in various jobs as a public school educator including teaching, Dean of Boys, administrative assistant, and librarian. He also has coached football, soccer, softball, track, and most other sports in the extra-curricular programs after the regular school days. He retired as an Assistant Principal at a southside middle school in June of 2004, where he also coached the boys' soccer team. His main hobbies other than writing and illustrating include offshore fishing, computers, reading, and woodworking. He is currently self-employed as a remodeling contractor, illustrator, and author. In his soccer coaching tenure, which started in 1978 and ended in 2004, Coach Robertson had 216 wins, 83 losses, and 23 ties. His teams won 2 undefeated conference championships, 6 conference championships, and were conference champs runners up 10 times. He is a FIFA licensed coach.

In addition to his other activities, Mr. Robertson has done the cover art and illustrations for five published novels. These include Jetty Man, Mullet Run, Oak Baby, Horny Toad, Joe Jumpers, Gopher Stew, Milk Duds, Holy Moly, Hoochie Coochie, and Sin City, by G. W. Reynolds III. Also, he did cover art for Crippled Pelican and The Red Cotton Fields by Michael Strickland. Mr. Robertson's artwork and cover art also appears in his first novel, Ranch Boy (ISBN 1-58244-216-9), and his Acorns of Love and Wisdom (ISBN 09740933-1-9), which is a collection of poetry and illustrations he created. Soccer Made Easy For Americans (ISBN (0-9717641-9-0) is a "how to" book on soccer. His two newer novels, Bottom Time (ISBN 0-9759818-2-X) and The Stream (ISBN 0-9777290-7-9) are now in print. His sixth book in print is a joke book, An Exercise Manual for the Couch Potato (ISBN 0-9777290-6-0). Until Death Do Us Part, and Growing Up In Paradise-a Florida Story and Memoir are both novels not yet published. He also has a cookbook ready for publishing. Steve Robertson also writes a column for First Coast Communities, which is part of Jacksonville.com called "Writer's Block." www.jacksonville.com/community/cc/writersblock/

The book of poems and novel turned out to be very successful as this statement by The Florida Times-Union journalist Susan Brandenburg indicates:

"In no way does Steve Robertson, at 6'4" tall and 250 lb., fit the stereotypical image of the sensitive, soft-spoken poet. In fact, there's nothing delicate about the rugged, hulking frame of the coach/athlete, educator/author, except his heart. The compassion in Steve's heart is reflected in his poetry and his art. In "Acorns of Love and Wisdom," a lifetime of experience is described in words of beauty, wonder, tragedy and triumph. With threads of love, humor, irony and elegance, Steve weaves a spell-binding tapestry of life.

Ranch Boy has sold out on Amazon.com six times and has 20 five star reviews. It was selected as "suggested reading" by Mid-West Book Review. Poems from "Acorns of Love and Wisdom" have been winning poetry contests and the reviews at www.authorsden.com are staggering. "Bottom Time" will be very successful and so will "The Stream" and "Until Death Do Us Part.""

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