ABOUTRobert Bartlett, life, career, books, Novels, Veteran, Author, Freelance Writer, Military Service, RAAF, Vereran,-ROBERT BARTLETT.COM.AU - Runic Books®-Australia


BACKGROUND 
 

Over the passing years everyone has life experiences, some good, some not so good, but most of us seem to accept any changes, adapt, and and move on with our lives.

Some years ago, in his younger years, after Robert completed his full time RAAF military service and returned to civilian life, he worked for the Australian Government for a while before he started employment in the private sector; where he was eventually employed as a National Business Development Manager for a couple of Multi-National Companies.

In his leisure hours, Robert’s interest in writing grew, and he started writing articles and short stories for a local community newspaper. And with his concentration in the art of writing, he started to write his first fictional novel, called Roisin. And by 2025 he had completed a dozen fictional stories.

When he retired from fulltime employment, his strong interest in story writing continued and, after becoming a volunteer, he conducted writing workshops in the areas of Memoir and Creative Writing for a non-profit organisation and a couple of local libraries.

Before starting any new fictional novel, Robert carries out research into various actual global activities or events, selecting the situations and people, that he may use to create fictional characters in the selected story themes. Over the latest years of his novels, he has concentrated on the various real-life happenings which include: Police Actions; International Crimes; Government Corruption and Conspiracy; Intelligence Agencies; Covert and Clandestine Operations.

Roberts’ novels have some sales circulation through libraries in Australia and New Zealand, and he no longer tries to market his books into retail book shops, as they trade with a different discount trading arrangement; and after all he isn’t writing novels to make money. He has the registered Australian trade mark – Runic Books-Australia, which acts as the marketing point for his novels. But his incentive to write isn’t about making money, his motives are to write a satisfying story theme that will challenge his inner imagined idea to create another story that will satisfy him and the reader.