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As often happens to English majors who prefer to eat every day, Rob spent most of his fits-and-starts career in business: early years in middle-management marketing and advertising posts, later times in general management for small manufacturing/service firms. In the late 1980s Rob wandered into business consulting, and in 1995 started his own tiny consulting firm. Today, like a mouse among elephants’ feet, he darts from town to town, dispensing advice on quality system management which more often than not works out okay. Rob wrote his first fiction at age 9. He spent most of his teens and twenties producing work of varying levels of unreadability. In 1982 his first published fiction appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (see Publishing Credits). Subsequently he published 9 Ben Perkins novels and several dozen short stories. The demands of self-employment forced a radical slowdown in fiction production. These days Rob knocks out the occasional short story, tinkers with historical fiction and crime novels, and generally contents himself in peaceful obscurity. Rob’s first marriage resulted in three wonderful children: Meaghan (1978), John (1979), and Robert (1981). Meg is the mother of the terrific Brenna (2000) and Evan (2001). On July 21, 2001, Rob married Deanna, the love of his life. They live on a farm near Blanchard, Michigan (pop. 200), with Jonathan Heath (1984), Adrienne Heath (1988), a dog, two horses, two cats, and others. AVAILABLE
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