As a writer and editor in the independent publishing industry, Robert Steele has worked in the genres of popular culture and cinema. As a writer on pop culture, he has provided new chapters for the updates of books including Rock ‘n’ Roll Babylon by Gary Herman and Marc Bolan: Born to Boogie by Chris Welch and Simon Napier-Bell, as well as producing biographies of teen movie idols such as Orlando Bloom.
In the beginning, there was the word - and the word was music. Chloe couldn't tell you much about what's happening in Eastenders - she doesn't even know who the characters are - but ask her about music and she is a veritable encyclopaedia.
In her teens she toured the world with bands and produced her own music magazine. By the time she left school, her tutor's report in her National Record of Achievement read: "A writer beyond all possible doubt, Chloe is at her best behind a pen" and "her innate linguistic fluency is outstanding".
Following an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Chloe completed a master's degree in Magazine Journalism, achieving a first with distinction.
She then became a travel writer and music critic for various newspapers,
After graduating civil engineering in Bucharest, Bogdan Hrib embarked on a varied career encompassing the professions of photographer, journalist (from 1991), advertising agency director (1992) and book editor (from 1993).
Bogdan Hrib’s debut as a crime fiction writer came in 2007 with Filiera grecească (The Greek Connection), the first book in the Stelian Munteanu series. It was followed by Blestemul manuscrisului (The Curse of the Manuscript, 2008), Somalia, Mon Amour (2009), Ucideți generalul (March 2011), translated and published by Profusion Publishers as Kill the General (November 2011). The novel Ultima fotografie (The Last Photograph, 2012) is not crime fiction. The most recent novel signed by Bogdan Hrib is (Patimile doamnei ministru
