HomeRob was born in California, but at the age of 11, moved with his family to Honolulu. His father had threatened to quit his job in Los Angeles, but the company wanted to keep him so badly they offered to send him wherever he wanted to go. He jokingly said, “Hawaii” and the next thing he knew, the transfer was approved.
Rob in Honolulu, Age 19
It took Rob a while to adjust to life on a tropical island, but once he got used to it, he fell in love with the place. In high school, he exchanged glances with a cute girl at the back of one of his classes (just prior to dropping it) and had no idea that he was looking at his future wife. As of this year, he has been married for 30 years.
During those thirty years, Rob has spent time as a musician, a screenwriter, and now novelist — all the while holding a variety of jobs to keep his family eating. He worked as a janitor, a flower delivery boy, a Hollywood messenger, a hotel room maid, a clerk for the Hawaii Legislature, a criminal intake processor for the Honolulu Public Defender, a legal secretary, a magazine columnist, and a video editor.
Since that first year living in Honolulu, Rob regularly browsed the bookstores and libraries, looking longingly at the shelves full of books and dreaming that he’d one day see his name on a novel of his own. He now has three of them in stores, has a forth on deck, and is currently writing a fifth book, this one for his new publisher, Dutton.
Rob and his wife have two grown kids, one cat, two dogs, and live in California.