{"id":140,"date":"2013-10-11T02:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertmangeot.com\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2023-08-30T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T02:00:34","slug":"bio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/robertmangeot.com\/?page_id=140","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Robert Mangeot is an award-winning writer, teacher, and sandwicher. No awards on the sandwiching. Yet. He’s a nerd, to be honest. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife and a ginger cat with plans all her own.<\/p>\r\n

His work appears in various anthologies and journals, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine <\/em>(forthcoming), The Forge Literary Magazine, Lowestoft Chronicle, Mystery Magazine, The Oddville Press<\/em>, <\/em>and in the print anthologies Die Laughing, Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War<\/em>, Not So Fast, <\/em>and the Anthony-winning<\/a> <\/span>Mu<\/span>rder Under the Oaks<\/em>. <\/em>His work has won the Claymore Award and been named a finalist for the Derringer Awards three times. He’s also won contests sponsored by the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild, On The Premises<\/em>, and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.<\/p>\r\n

Outside the writing part of writing, he teaches short fiction and will happily debate the short form’s whethers and whatnots over beverages of choice. He proudly served as a chapter officer for both Sisters in Crime and Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. In 2023, he received the Magnolia Award for service to crime writing community.<\/p>\r\n

When not doing any of that, he can be found counting things or wandering the snack food aisles of America or France.<\/p>\r\n

Or I could tell you:<\/p>\r\n

Skidding into our world half-Irish and half-Southern, clearly some brush with writing was inevitable. Also part-French, and this part was embraced Mais oui<\/i>, the fiction brush would come with savoir vivre. In my college days I wrote a humor column and some this-and-thats, but not much thereafter. I was, you know, counting things and wandering snack food aisles. Eventually This Whole Writing Thing rediscovered me, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have work appear in some excellent places<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

I’ve been a head of a fine dog pack, but lately I’ve been a cat valet.  I’m fine with lap cats (or shoulder cats, pirate-style–seriously) that so long as they watch the claws. Maybe I’m cool with it because of the Bond villain parallels. Blofeld is over-the-top cool, that’s what I’m saying. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I dig the English Premier League (COYS), Predators hockey, University of Louisville athletics, Dashiell Hammett, poetry, most any kind of music. The “most any” part is minute-to-minute. I used to have mad song trivia skills–used to–but I can still quote some lyrics. In sports, I can name the starting nine for the 1970s Big Red Machine and many of the subs. Merv Rettenmund. Ed Armbrister. See? Mike Lum! I graduated from Bellarmine University–go, Knights–and they haven’t tried to retract that or anything. Everyone seems cool with it. Liberal arts. Veritas, yo.<\/p>\r\n

\"\"Counting things. It’s not all spreadsheets. There are weights and measures. One time they asked me to count a colorless and odorless gas. And I counted it. Boxcars of it. Another time they had me counting mock turtlenecks in subzero warehouse conditions. Once for several weeks I was a regular on television auditing the nightly Lotto drawing. Such was my counting-related brush with stardom.<\/p>\r\n

My<\/span> other great joy is travel, which often seeps into my stories. Look for me in a Belgian friterie or a Caribbean market or in any international snack food aisle. Otherwise I’m at my writing desk dreaming of stories, or more likely, editing the dream to ashes.<\/p>\r\n

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Robert Mangeot is an award-winning writer, teacher, and sandwicher. No awards on the sandwiching. Yet. He’s a nerd, to be honest. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife and a ginger cat with plans all her own. His work appears in various anthologies and journals, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine (forthcoming), The Forge… Continue reading About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3CG0W-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2220,"url":"https:\/\/robertmangeot.com\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Bob","author":"rtmcontrol","date":"May 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Turner of Phrase. 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