Robert V. Aldrich is a novelist and writer based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. He writes mostly sci-fi/fantasy, and draws inspiration from anime, video games, comics, lucha libre, and even opera (no really, it’s true).

A wonderful talent, Robert has a number of manuscripts in development through Caffeine & Ink Books. Most prolific among those books are his, A Song of Bullets and Boom (Rhest) and his Rockaiju series.

Ink is in Robert’s veins. If he is not writing for C&I he is writing something for himself or someone else. Over the years he has produced ridiculously lengthy bodies of work. From his previous online exercise, Crossworlds, where he was producing individual chapters on a daily and weekly basis for over 8 years. His earliest forays into novel writing with Ghee, and Neo-Romance, were also beloved in the indie publishing world among Anime and LGBTQ fans.

Robert currently continues to produce a series of self-published adventure novels titled, Proton, which focuses on a character who gained superpowers from dressing up in Cosplay.

When Robert isn’t writing, he works as a data analyst for the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry, teaches martial arts (mostly to kids), and specializes in losing arguments with cats and squirrels. Feel free to spark up a conversation at the next convention by asking him: “What is your favorite episode of Transformers?”