Robert W. Tompkins

Robert W. Tompkins has been called "fantasy's best kept secret." He is the author of The Hagenspan Chronicles, as well as a couple of non-fiction books.

He was born in 1959 in upstate New York, where he has lived most of his life. He wrote over four hundred songs in his youth, and turned to fiction around the beginning of the current century. He pastored a small rural congregation for five years, and is now retired from most things due to early-onset Parkinson's Disease. However, he does continue writing, and is currently beginning work on the tenth book in the Hagenspan series.

Tompkins also works on occasional projects related to the Christian faith, most recently editing a rewrite of the classic book Straight Paths for Your Feet by Marcus Rainsford, the new edition being titled Rainsford's 21st Century Lexicon of Bibilical Terms. He is now beginning a similar task on Rainsford's classic Sermons Preached at Belgrave Chapel.