Bob Brink was a journalist for thirty-five years with wide-ranging experience that included reporting, writing news copy, and editing for The Associated Press in Chicago. He also wrote for the now-defunct Milwaukee Journal, Tampa Tribune, and Palm Beach Post. He was an editor and wrote celebrity profiles for a group of luxury-lifestyle magazines in Florida. Recently, he ghost-wrote a short book about a woman's heroic determination to have a baby through in vitro fertilization and her anguished ordeal. He lives outside West Palm Beach, Florida.