Robin Palmer
Featured author for November 2001.
Identity Theory articles: "Seven Things I Learned This Year" | "Very Little Sex & The City"
Robin Palmer grew up in an idyllic suburb of Boston, which at the time she refused to appreciate but would now kill to go back to (the area, not her childhood). After graduating from Boston University with a degree in Mass Communication/Public Relations because they didn't offer one in Drinking/Smoking, she moved to Los Angeles to make her fortune in the entertainment business.
For the last eleven years, she's worked in television as a producer and network executive. However, after a series of life-altering events, the fog cleared and she remembered that she had originally intended to spend her life either as a writer or a toll booth collector (so she could indulge her penchant for spending her days alone reading), but as there are no toll roads in California, she decided to give the writing thing a try.
Because it's Los Angeles, she wrote a screenplay which is, shockingly enough, about a thirty-year-old woman who realizes that material success doesn't do the trick and ends up radically changing her life, which she hopes will get made so that she can pay the rent and continue to feed her addiction to pilates and ridiculously priced but gorgeous shoes. However, she has much more fun writing articles and essays and hopes that she will be referred to as "the literary love child of Joan Didion and George Plimpton" in the Vanity Fair article that is ultimately written about her.
Her writing has allowed her to participate in such fine aspects of Americana such as on-line dating and posing nude and basically serves as an all-purpose excuse to leave her apartment and do outlandish things. When she's not sitting in front of her computer praying for the willingness to stay there and write a sentence or two, or hyperventilating as she balances her checkbook and wonders what she was thinking leaving her very secure, high-paying job just to follow her dreams, then she's exploring the city that she's been trashing for 11 years but never really experienced up until now because she was stuck in the depths of her workaholism.
Basically, she's tentatively stepping out in the world after being asleep for a long, long time... So far this is the only site where you can read her musings, but she's working on that. And if you have any questions, or want to write and tell her how incredibly talented she is, she'd be happy to hear from you at rpalmer321@aol.com.