rleplin
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| Member | Apr 17, 2009 (17 years) |
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Bio
Rocky Leplin graduated from the UCLA Film Division, and later received a master’s in music composition. He has written 500 songs, nine books, and two musicals. He wrote the rhymed verse epic Humphrey’s Long Journey Away from the Sea, only while walking his dog April. It took ten years. Another ten years were spent writing an off-world musical called The Purpose of the Moon. He was a classical music and art reviewer for five S. F. East Bay newspapers, and an elementary school music teacher, where he taught third graders how to conduct Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony using chopsticks. His story The Incredible Man-Eating Marshmallow was a winner of the 2020 Writer's Digest Writing Contest, his zany manual A Psycho’s Guide to Animal Companionship was a Finalist in the 2023 Indie Book Awards, and his story The Tumultuous Tire Revolution was a Finalist in the 2024 Next Generation Short Story Awards. His website is rockyleplin.live. Seven of his books are on Amazon.