Legal Editor by day, writer by night of historical fantasy. Award-winning Austenesque spin-offs: Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2018 & 2021; Grand Prize Winner-Novella, 2024 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Linktr.ee/rekwriterhttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3ma4gantqus24It's the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. May her books live forever! 99 cent sale this week for my novella, SOMETHING ABOUT LIZZY, winner, Grand Prize for Novellas, Chanticleer International Book Awards 2024: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D3X4NF6N #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250 #PrideandPrejudice #ebook16 Dec 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4gantqus24https://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3m3vyaq62ns2lMy favorite bookstore in San Francisco. It always feels magical to go inside there and look around. #citylightsbookstore #sanfrancisco #resistance24 Oct 2025 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3vyaq62ns2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lzwjtfefhk23Probably the only mural ever painted by Frida Kahlo, as seen on the kitchen walls of her family's red house, c. 1938. "El mesón de los gorriones" (Sparrow's Inn). The home is now Museo Casa Kahlo. #FridaKahlo #MexicoCity #frida #artcommunity #MexicanArt28 Sep 2025 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzwjtfefhk23https://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lyocudiz4s2y“In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.” ― Edward John Trelawny, Adventures Of A Younger Son Portrait: Edward John Trelawny by Joseph Severn #RomanticPoets #RomanticEra #Victorian12 Sep 2025 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyocudiz4s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lxrtc2oik22d"Party-spirit...at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." - Alexander Pope, 1714 letter.01 Sep 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxrtc2oik22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lwhe6z5szs2wEcho and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903, is the story of a man in love with himself and where the woman infatuated with him can repeat only the last three words he says. Oddly, that's what is happening today in America with all those women who drank the Kool-Aid. (Fig leaf added by me)15 Aug 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhe6z5szs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lujbyfgkvc22My grandmother gave birth to twin baby girls in the internment camps and they died. Horrible living conditions. Desert winds and dust. Toilets with no doors. Constant fear of being starved to death. She hoarded bread. Moldy bread. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lujbyfgkvc22https://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3ltmhw4qssc2aI love a beautiful piebald horse and often include one in my stories. This is an 1877 watercolor painting of a piebald horse by Isabella Hunter, Scottish Borders. #horse #19thcenturyart #piebald #watercolor10 Jul 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmhw4qssc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/robinkobayashi.bsky.social/post/3lszmgm7xcs2wIncredible! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2025 01:50 +0000at://did:plc:urdbupkcxpvrxe3tlibmxhsc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lszmgm7xcs2w