5/24/2023 0 Comments Serafina and the black cloak 2![]() ![]() Beatty left his company and, inspired by the Western North Carolina scenery in the film version of The Last of the Mohicans, he and his family relocated from Michigan to Asheville. She’s cancer-free now, but the diagnosis was a wake-up call. Then Beatty’s wife, Jennifer, contracted Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Still do.” But after spending 90 hours a week at Plex, he says, “I’d just be exhausted by the time I got home and wouldn’t be able to write very well.” ![]() “I never disliked the tech side,” he says. He went on to start his own company, Plex, and pioneer cloud computing. That same year, Beatty also began his lifelong work with computers. My mom gave me a typewriter, and said, ‘Here, play with this,’” Beatty says. Having his story jell was particularly rewarding for Beatty, because writing Serafina, a middle-grade book, was the culmination of a passion that started when he was 11. “I thought, ‘How cool would it be if you lived at the Biltmore Estate and you snuck around that place?’” he says. While writing, Beatty asked himself, “What do my daughters love?” At the time, his youngest loved to sneak up on him. ![]() As the book’s release approaches (with events planned at the Biltmore Park Barnes & Noble on Saturday, July 18, and at Malaprop’s on Saturday, July 25), he says he came to appreciate the setting more and more as the story grew. Robert Beatty always imagined his mystery/thriller Serafina and the Black Cloak taking place at Biltmore Estate. ![]()
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