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. Later, Robin became one of the founder members of the Kilmore SES unit and in his 12 years as a volunteer he attended numerous road accidents, bush searches, storm damage events, bushfires and cliff rescues. 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 weekly regional 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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