Rob lives and writes, writes and lives in the Adelaide Hills.
Though he's dabbled with telling stories since a teenager he only took it seriously late in life. Mostly he writes Speculative Fiction, a broad genre including Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.
In 1996 he founded the 
a cadre of dedicated SF writers, most now successful in their own write and instrumental in his early successes:
- an Honourable Mention in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future
- a place in the 1997 top 10 Science Fiction Writers of Earth
- second place in the Aurealis Millennium short story competition
(exactly 1000 words) - several stories in AntipodeanSF an on-line magazine for Flash Fiction. (500 words or less)
Encouraged he decided it was time to write that novel. The novel became a trilogy (The Restoration Legends) that for the last decade has taken over the living and writing.
- Bk 1. 200,000 words.
- Bk 2. 180,000 words.
- Bk 3. 160,000 words at 29/6/11 and still going.