Look and Listen

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Rob started writing fiction at age eight. These were short stories written for the thrill of approval he received from his highly supportive parents. His family moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, when he was an adolescent, and even though he received high grades for any story he submitted, his teachers never encouraged his work, apparently because of its science fiction genre. After high school, his writing interests changed. While attending Drexel University, he composed a series of novellas, most of them love stories set against the backdrop of World War II. After college, besides pursuing an engineering career in the Gulf Coast region, he wrote more stories, a teeth-cutting, first novel, and a little poetry. By now, his interest focused on the question of what romantic love can achieve in people’s lives. To pursue this theme, he studied the work of many authors and filmmakers. In 2005, he read a well crafted love story by a best selling authoress whose denouement was a reversal so suddenly despairing that he felt outrage on behalf of the novel’s readers. Within twenty-four hours, he was writing Coinage of Commitment, a novel whose first draft was produced in a four month blaze of sleepless effort. Now, for all those readers wondering what level love can soar to, the finished work is proudly brought to you by Saga Books. Rob and his wife live near Houston, Texas.

Inspiration

When I was a freshman in college, I met a girl who took my breath, and my heart, away. Years later, even after marriage, a child, a demanding career path, I realized that we still had the magic, still measured life by the time we spent together. At that point, I had a humbling realization. Even though I prided myself on having studied romantic love for a long time, it was my wife who was teaching me how to keep it fresh through the years. I started writing my first novel (which was never published)partly to give something back, to let readers know that love could reach a higher level and that it could be nourished through time as something worthwhile and satisfying.