Rob Bignell is the owner and chief editor at Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the editing and proofreading needs of writers both new and published. He is author of the nonfiction "Hikes with Tykes" guidebooks as well as a collection of poetry, "Love Letters to Sophie's Mom". Several of his short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published. For more than two decades, he worked as an award-winning journalist, with half of those years spent as an editor. In addition, for seven years he worked as an English teacher or a community college journalism instructor. He holds a Master's degree in English and a Bachelor's in journalism and English.