Author Robyn Michaels

I've always been a writer, and I've always worked with dogs (to my
parents horror). While my friends were accumulating college debt, I was
making a living grooming dogs.  I've also trained dogs. After divorcing
my  high school sweetheart, I traveled to Africa (Tanzania) when I was
30, & that changed my life.  I returned, took CLEP exams, and started
going to college---paying as I went  (majoring in Africa area studies).
I got an assistantship to grad school, but there were  no jobs when I
graduated, so I joined Peace Corps, serving as a 'town planner' in
Blantyre, Malawi.

I've  been back to Africa 4 more times, and I've c volunteered in urban
India, and was a U.N. Volunteer in Africa.

I wrote The Pleasure Seeker because I know what it's like to be an
'other'.  People believe so many myths about others, and  now, with the
internet, those myths spread faster.  Jews are actually a minority in
the U.S,A., and most of us are secular. We're not Zionists.  But Sikh
are even more of a minority, and are constantly confused with being
either Muslim or Hindu...and are often attacked out of hatred.

The book is based on real African and music history.