Who in the world is Robbi?

Welcome to robbihess.com

Writer, editor and humor columnist, Robbi Hess has always been involved with words.

Robbi can't remember a time when she wasn't either reading a book or newspaper or scribbling ideas for articles or novels in her journal.

Many years ago, armed with only a desire to become a journalist, a deep love for the written word, and an eagle-eye for accuracy, she talked the editor of the local newspaper, The Medina Journal Register, into taking a chance on hiring her. She started out on the obituary and police beats and   worked her way up to beat reporter and editor of the weekly paper, The Albion Advertiser.

She honed her craft, took writing classes, and built her career as a writer. She also shares her love for writing with others through the classes she teaches at a local literary institution.

Her writing career  encompassed being a reporter and editorial assistant at Suburban News, assistant editor and writer at Business Strategies Magazine and a writer of medical articles with For The Record Magazine and Physicians EHR.

Her humor column, "My Thoughts Exactly," appears in The Medina Journal Register and The Albion Advertiser.

She co-authored A Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names with Marcia Layton Turner. 

As for her passion for romantic fiction: she had always dabbled in fiction but had never traveled down that path other than in the form of short pieces written during "writing aerobics" sessions at a local literary center.

Her romance fiction has appeared in The Writer's Journal, True Romance and True Love Magazines.

A broken foot in 2004 launched her into the realm of full-time writer. When she broke her foot and was laid up (literally) for three weeks then an additional three months off-from-work recuperation time she jumped (bad pun she knows) headlong into seriously pursuing her dream of a full-time writing career.

She is the "Perc-olator" at Coffee House for Writers. As the Perc writer she puts together a weekly newsletter and offers up writing prompts.

She is also a member of the following organizations:

Association for Women in Communications
Editorial Freelancers Association
National Association of Women Writers
National Society of Newspaper Columnists
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc.
Romance Writers of America
Wizards of Words