Robert N. Reincke

Robert Reincke is an artist, author, and co-owner of an independent publishing company, Spunky Books, which publishes his and his partner’s works. He is also an MBA and entrepreneurial business writer, who specializes in writing professional business plans for investor immigrants.

In the early 90’s, Robert fled his work with Fortune 100 corporations to break with the systems and bureaucratic confines (read, "hell") that he felt were opposed to everything he valued. While working in Europe and Asia as a fashion model, he reached the apex of the first of three major spiritual awakenings—acceptance of his being gay. This experience later became the basis for Robert’s second book, the documented memoir, "Falling Off the Catwalk.”

Thoroughly impoverished by his foray into the fashion industry, Robert found his way to work as a Theatrical Contracts Business Representative for the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood. A high pressure job “green lighting” films, and subsequent administrative work for the Directors Guild of America, was the perfect backdrop for Robert’s second spiritual awakening to culminate—his long-term struggle with alcoholism. Robert has been sober and an active member of AA since March 19, 2001.

Shortly after 9/​11 Robert founded his business plan writing service “to help facilitate the movement, expression, and professional growth of people without boundaries” and “to assist in fostering this expansion through business and the arts.” In 2003 he began writing “Death of a Past Life,” his first novel, which depicts his family’s horrific struggles through the greatest atrocities of the 20th Century—Revolution, War, Starvation, Assassination, and Displacement. Robert’s book and writing business have allowed him to document the plight of his immigrant family while working with modern-day immigrants. Writing in business and as art has integrated Robert’s worldly experience and undeniable need to express creativity.

Robert has always produced art. As a child, he swam to the bottom of the neighborhood lake to dig up clay, which he later used to sculpt. Robert’s capacity to sculpt, paint, sketch, draw, and write were stifled by his alcoholism. But addiction was neither the only, nor the largest, impediment to Robert’s self-actualization as an artist. His ego, supported by his family’s fear, rationalized that fine art was not a worthwhile endeavor—how could one survive! So thick was the veil between what Robert thought he should believe and his personal Spiritual Truth, that he was blocked (for a third and most pronounced time) from fully acknowledging and acting upon his real passion.

Humility, spiritual and personal expansion in sobriety, and the need to take his art further, have conspired to allow Robert his third spiritual awakening. Robert has fortuitously been accepted to the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland where he will fulfill a lifelong dream to become a sculptor. His third book, which was meant to be a counterpoint of his memoir (focus on joy, recovery and solution to the three perils of homophobia, addiction and religiosity), may metamorphose into another expression. He continues to serve investor immigrants and is working with his mother on her memoirs, which begin where “Death of a Past Life” ends.