Inside the world of Rob Mclean, Author

So for those of you who have read my series, The Fall of Man , you'll know that I find geopolitics of interest. I haven't been blogging on the topic mind you, as I've been busy with book stuff, but I figured I'd make a post tonight. The big question is who is it going to be this year? Trump or Hillary? Who will bring it home? After seeing the debates in both parties, seeing both conventions and seeing the narratives that have bounced around in the media over the past year, I'm certain that Trump will win the Presidency. Now, I know some will think that's a crazy prediction. After all, right now it's basically a 50/50 toss-up in the polls. But that only bolsters my prediction. I mean, how in the world are the Democrats either losing or tied with Trump in the polls? Let's put that aside though, as well as about 50 other variables that will ultimately favor trump. Instead, let's focus in on just the core ones. The following reasons (albeit n...

So I was checking out my Twitter account today and found it odd that my ratio of followers to following seemed out of wack. Sure enough, a number of other authors who had signed up to follow me, had since removed their follow after I reciprocated and followed them. For those on Twitter, the simple way of checking who is following you is to actually click on your own "following" tab. This will give you a list of the people you are following. Then, beside their name, it will say "Follows you". If they are no longer following you, it will say nothing. So once a month you should take a look through your following list and turf the people who only followed you to get their own twitter follow account numbers up. It's a skeezy thing to do and you don't want to be supporting those folks by helping them build a presence on Twitter. Or go one step further like I do and simply block them. :)  I'm not sure what Twitter's policies are, but maybe with en...

From July 25 - 27 I'm running a sale on Amazon where the first book, The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment , will be free! For those who have been thinking about jumping into the series, now's your chance to do so for free! Enjoy! =)

So I'm ramping up to do outreach (ie. marketing) regarding my The Fall of Man trilogy after recently releasing The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem . I haven't done any outreach yet and so not surprisingly I've had only a few sales. But what has really surprised me is people seem to really like box sets. I've made reference to the three individual books in the series on places like my blog, so I wasn't surprised that a couple of people bought A Fool's Requiem. But I've made no mention of the box set The Fall of Man: The Complete Series and yet it was purchased in Germany and for some unknown reason a bunch of people are reading it on kindle unlimited.  So in essence, the offering (ie. the box set) that I've literally done nothing for is selling better than the individual books that I've done something (albeit very little) for. Moreover, I didn't put nearly as much effort into the cover of the box set as for the individual books. B...

So for those following trends in globalization you are probably aware of the TPP and TTIP  and the attempts to create a global legal system that supersedes any sovereign legal authority. This trend makes today's news that bit torrent site Kickass Torrents has been shut down all the more interesting. The US government, with the assistance of Poland, Apple and Facebook arrested Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old from Ukraine who apparently operated the Kickass Torrents site (which ranks as the 70th most visited site on the Internet). The irony? Apparently, Artem was buying things on iTunes and it was part of how they tracked down his identity. They used Facebook to capture his IP address then iTunes to link the IP address to his real life identity. So the world's biggest "pirate" essentially got caught because he was legally purchasing content. As many know, The Pirate Bay was wiped from the Internet in 2014, although has come back to life since then, albeit as a sh...

The following links provide you with access to the posts that list the various music and art that are referenced in The Fall of Man series. Part One: Music References in The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment Part Two: Art References in The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment Part Three: Music References in The Fall of Man: System Crash Part Four: Art References in The Fall of Man: System Crash Part Five: Music References in The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem Part Six: Art References in The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem

The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem Art References Vincent Van Gogh , A Peasant Burns Weeds Jules-Elie Delaunay , The Plague of Rome John Martin , The Great Day of His Wrath Honore Daumier , The Smokers Alexandre-François Desportes ,The Wolf Hunt Ivan Aivazovsky , Creation of the World

The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem Art References Lithium , Nirvana Cruisin California , The Offspring Pay Me , Tom Waits Black Betty , Ram Jam A Dream , Jacob Tillberg Only , Nine Inch Nails Cocaine , Eric Clapton Ride A White Horse , Goldfrapp Happy , Pharrell Williams Piece of My Heart , Janis Joplin That's Life , Frank Sinatra

The Fall of Man: System Crash Art References Salvador Dali , The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali ,  Christ of Saint John of the Cross Michelangelo , The Last Judgment Thomas Eakin,  The Chess Players August Friedrich Albrecht Schenk , Anguish Vasily Pukirev,  The Unequal Marriage Jean-Léon Gérôme , The Death of Caesar

The Fall of Man: System Crash Music References The Wolf by LEØ Right Where It Belongs , Nine Inch Nails I Get By , Everlast House of Ill Repute , Gutter Brother's Idol EDM Mashup , Virtual Riot's We're from America , Marilyn Manson Louie Louie , Motorhead's rendition of Richard Berry's War Pigs , Black Sabbath   Prince of Darkness , Megadeth Army of Me , Björk

The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment Art References Michelangelo,   David Cellini,   Perseo Ammannati,   Nettuno Gian Lorenzo Bernini,  Neptune and Triton Nicolas-Sébastien Adam,  Prometheus Bound  Giotto di Bondone , Lamentations of Christ Bosch , The Garden of Delights Michelangelo , Il Giudizio Universale Dali , Persistence of Memory Edward Munch , The Scream

For those of you who have read the series but didn't have the time to google the various references to art and music within the books, I've compiled those references for you in one place. For those of you just about to read the books you may want to bookmark these post for reference as you are reading.  Due to post length limitations I'll have to break these up into a number of entries.  The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment Music References Sleep Now In The Fire , Rage Against The Machine Free Bird , Lynyrd Skynyrd The Nothing Song, Sigur ros 99 Red Baloons, Nena Know Your Enemy , Rage Against The Machine Imagine , John Lennon 

So I've neglected this blog big time over the past few months, been slaving away on the final book in The Fall of Man series. The Fall of Man: A Fool's Requiem is now out and available for purchase on Amazon. I also decided to put out a box set . So for those interested in all three books you can pick them up at over 50 percent off in box set form. I'm going to take a couple of days to decompress, but I'll be adding new blog content on an on-going basis soon.

Interested in purchasing one of my books? Below are the links that will take you to the right place on Amazon. A Manufactured Mind On Amazon On Kobo On Barnes and Noble On iTunes Obey On Amazon On Kobo  On B&N  On iTunes  The Fall of Man Trilogy Days of Judgment (Book One) On Amazon On Kobo On B&N On iTunes System Crash (Book Two) On Amazon On Kobo On B&N On iTunes A Fool's Requiem (Book Three) On Amazon On Kobo On B&N On iTunes