ROBYNE STEVENSON, AUTHOR
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As a writer, I want my readers to have access to personal transformation through my characters and through the situations I create. Writing is my opportunity to demonstrate pathways for characters and readers to find their way. Stories transport and transform. Please explore my writing portfolio.
NEWS
New Writing and Upcoming Promotions
New! Audio Clips from Books 1 and 2 in the Series and
Sale Coming in March
Now you can listen to audio clips of No Time For Regrets and Finding Her Happiness. Click on the Audio Boxes in the Book Sections below.
Be sure to check Amazon for a March sale on the first two books and pre-order for Book 3 - Carry On Our Dreams. Dates will be posted when finalized.
NEW NOVELETTE
Available Now - Click on the tab New Fiction in the menu at the top of the page.
This work is designed to be a bridge between the first two books and give added depth to the story of Ruth.
In this first novelette - The Man She Loves, you'll get to see Alex Benedict in a new light through his perspective! Who better to tell us who he really is than the man himself? I hope you enjoy this short work of fiction and that it primes you for the next book coming spring 2022.
BOOK 2 - FINDING HER HAPPINESS IS AVAILABLE NOW!
Set in 1920s Philadelphia, Ruth joins the campaign for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. But managing her quest for love and happiness is more daunting than the politics of rights for women. The Reid clan is embroiled in a swirling series of events with a dramatic conclusion with a new twist on love and happiness.
PROJECTS
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." Proust
I’ve put together a selection of my latest pieces. Read through the descriptions and samples. There are links to posts and purchase options. Thanks for taking a look and letting me share my work with you.
SOCIALITES & SUFFRAGISTS - A 3 BOOK SERIES OF HISTORICAL FICTION
First Book Launch - March 23, 2021
Second Book Launch - February 14, 2022
The right for women to vote did not come easily. Ruth Reid was a trailblazer who took a risk to live life on her terms. The 19th Amendment put into motion a host of changes for women and their families and the Reids were no exception. Love, family, and politics span the generations of these women who matter.
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NO TIME FOR REGRETS - A NOVEL
BOOK 1
Play the recording to hear a reading from No Time For Regrets
A romantic tale of a woman coming of age as a suffragist in the cradle of democracy.
Ruth Reid embarks on a quest to matter in the world of 1917. She longs for status and privilege to take her out of her working-class family and into the world of socialites on Philadelphia’s Main Line. She’s determined to work in an office and marry a professional man of means. The suffragist movement is a pivotal detour on her journey. The suffragists are saying what she believes - women deserve to be heard and the right to vote is a powerful voice. Can she be a modern suffragist while chasing her dream of being a woman of status? She is not deterred by failed loves, and when a chance meeting puts Alex in her midst, she is sure he is the one. Their love affair is everything a woman would want. He adores her spirit and she fulfills her dream of living on the Main Line. But his prominent political trajectory cannot include Ruth on his arm. Their clandestine love requires Ruth to trade public happiness for private ecstasy. Everything comes to a head as the 19th Amendment is ratified and women finally have the right to vote. She makes the hardest decisions of her young life when she discovers it is her own voice that is the most powerful of all.
FINDING HER HAPPINESS - BOOK 2
February 2022
Play the audio clip to hear an excerpt reading from Finding Her fHappiness
Set in 1920s Philadelphia, Ruth joins the campaign for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. But managing her quest for love and happiness is more daunting than the politics of rights for women. The Reid clan is embroiled in a swirling series of events with a dramatic conclusion with a new twist on love and happiness.
CARRY ON HER DREAMS
BOOK 3
COMING SOON!
March 2023
The next generations of Reid women are faced with new challenges and finding love. Granddaughter Kate looks at how Ruth navigated her life to get a roadmap for hers. It's the dawn of the 1960s and the ultimate liberation of women and civil rights are changing everything. Ruth and Maurine must face these times and put family first. Kate struggles with life and love, just as her grandmother and great aunt did. But will her mother, Helen, accept her daughter's dreams? Or will Helen try to reign Kate in?
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
Ernest Hemmingway
TRAVEL WRITING
My Professional Journey
TRAVEL FEEDS MY SOUL
I write about my nomadic travels in my 25 foot Flying Cloud Airstream. I've been living and traveling on the road for three years. I love staying at Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds and even camp hosted at one.
Everywhere I go is actually a "coming to." I don’t know what I’ll find. I don’t know who I’ll meet - maybe no one I’ll remember. I don’t know what I will experience - but I always remember. The way I feel about a place is what I remember. I experience a place in a way that maybe others don’t. I smell, I touch, but most of all I feel. The fireflies in Wisconsin make me feel mystical. The rain in Seattle makes me feel contemplative. The bright sunshine in the midwest makes me nostalgic. The waves on the beach make me feel fearless. The bayous of the south make me afraid. The mountains make me feel insignificant in scale but a part of the earth in being there. These feelings are why I come.
You can find links to all my travel writings, interviews, and other writing below and at Coast 2 Coast dot blog
TRAVEL AWAITS - AN ONLINE TRAVEL MAGAZINE
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My portfolio page: https://www.travelawaits.com/author/robyne-stevenson/
I write articles about my travels in my RV.
MEDIUM
Medium.com is a place where anyone can write, but not everyone is read. It is an interesting experiment of a curated commons approach to the tradition of the public square. I write about my nomadic life and sometimes throw in a piece about politics. I did several pieces on a tour of civil rights sites in the south traveling in my Airstream. I also wrote about living on the road in the pandemic. Here is a direct link to my Medium page.
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