Rob Swanson has an unfortunately common name, as evidenced by the dozen other authors by the same handle. This Rob hails from Seattle, found school unworthy of great pursuit but did pretty well anyway. Driven by a passion for comedy and performing, he went to Western Washington University as a triple major in Playwrighting, Acting and Directing. Three powerful degrees, let me tell you. Then, in a tumultuous night his senior year, Rob had a dramatic encounter with God. His newly-acquired faith changed his personality so much that performing lost its appeal.
But writing didn't.
Rob sold a screenplay and watched it get turned into a truly horrible movie. He wrote, produced and show-ran a replacement season soap opera that didn't get picked up and so moved on to better pastures.
Authoring and mounting dozens of plays, Rob eventually married and moved to Orlando, Florida where he had another drastic encounter, this time with the sun! Who knew? A lifetime of depression lifted (confirmed a few years later by moving back to grey, rain-soaked Seattle... it didn't take. He and his growing family jetted back to Orlando. Kids grown and missing mountains, they moved to the mountains of Colorado).
Running a freelance writing business, Rob wrote in every kind of format you can imagine. He has ghostwritten 16 books, book doctored a dozen more and every now and then, squeezes in time for his own writing. Eight books under his own name, and two under a pen name. Now, in the rural world of his personal mountain, his productivity has increased dramatically.
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