Robin Northover spent many years in Australian print media as a sub-editor, feature writer and columnist. Much of the material in Likely Stories dates from that period, though some of it is even older, having first seen the light of day on a typewriter. Robin has worked as a journalist for Leader newspapers, Southdown Press, Herald & Weekly Times and Pacific Publications, as well as freelancing for newspapers and magazines in the UK and USA. After taking part in an unsuccessful search for a missing schoolboy in the bush near Marysville, Robin conceived and wrote The Find Me Book, which was distributed to schools through Victoria. He has written three books-to-order for Decalon Publishing (Wine, the Feminine Touch, Wines of the Clare Valley and A Guide to Tasmania) as well as working on a freelance basis for one of Australia's leading PR agencies, Les Jabara & Associates, where he was responsible for scripting The Coonara Great Race, one of the biggest PR events of the 1980s. Robin's last full-time job (from 2004 to 2012) was as the founding editor of The North Central Review, a region weekly newspaper based in Kilmore. After retiring from journalism Robin started a new career as an extra and actor in film and television.
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