Bio:Robby Charters

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Robby Charters is the author of Pepe and The Story of Saint Catrick.

Born in Chiengmai Thailand, on 11, December, 1955, to William and Rosemary Charters, Northern Irish and American, respectively. The Charters family were missionaries working with WEC International. Robby lived and went to school in Thailand until the age of 13, after which he finished his high school education in U.S. After finishing Highschool at Annville Institute, in Eastern Kentucky in 1974, he moved to S. California, where he went to at several schools, including Pasadena City College, Fullerton College, Melodyland School of Theology, and later, West Coast Christian College.

Robby returned to Thailand in 1979, where his parents still lived and worked. For the next 19 years, he did various types of missionary work, assisting local churches, teaching at institutions, and other types of volunteer work.

During a year and a half break, which he spent in U.K. in 1991, Robby began his writing career, working on a historical novel which never did get published. However, it whet his interest in writing.

In 1998, he married Bless, a Thai national whom he had first become acquainted with in 1984. Bless had been working with a charity organisation called YWAM, assisting underprivililaged children, and other types of charity work.

About year 2000, Robby released an animal fantasy novel, The Story of Saint Catrick , about ethnic reconciliation, using animal species in place of nationalities. It was published by a subsidy press, and didn't sell, due to lack of marketing. Later, he withdrew it.

At that point in Robby's life, he was phasing into more secular type work, including teaching English as a second language. During that time, he worked for one year, from 2001 to 2002, at Human Devopement Foundation, directed by Fr. Joe Maier. At the Mercy Centre, a shelter for homeless children, and AIDS hospice, Robby began by translation case histories of children in their program, and later began assisting in the art program. After one year, he was force to leave due to lack of funds on the part of his sponsor. According to the official Pepe page, Mercy Centre was the inspiration for one of the settings in his recent novel, Pepe, and Fr. Joe inspired the character of Fr. Antonio in the novel.

Robby and Bless's son, Abie, was born in 2003. Soon after that the family moved to Ireland, where Robby wrote Pepe, a futuristic science fiction novel about a homless street boy living in a high-tech world.

Robby his family are equally at home in N. Ireland, where Robby works as a softwear tester, and in Bangkok, where he teaches at a bi-lingual school.

After the release of Pepe by Readers Eden, Robby re-released a re-edited version of The Story of Saint Catrick through Smashwords.com e-publisher (according to a press release on PRLOG). His blog page is: [1] Robbycharters 08:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)