Doyle earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Old English poetry.

They published their first novel, Night of Ghosts and Lightning, in 1989 under the house name Robyn Tallis; two Tom Swift novels under the house name Victor Appleton; Pep Rally, Blood Brothers, and Vampire’s Kiss under the house name Nicholas Adams; and two Spider-Man and three Battletech novels as Martin Delrio.

[2] Together Doyle and Macdonald made up part of the core membership of the sff.net website and rec.arts.sff newsgroup.

Doyle also taught at the Viable Paradise genre writer's workshop on Martha's Vineyard.

[2] A full list of her contributions and work can be found on the Fantastic Fiction[5] site.